Good old Stanley.  Here’s an excerpt from a a bit on the Columbia mayhem, quoted by Jonah Goldberg at NRO’s The Corner: Fish On Free Speech [Jonah Goldberg] I can’t read it myself because I don’t have Time$elect. But a reader sends me this excerpt from Stanley Fish’s new blog regardling the Columbia thugfest: Once one understands the true nature of the event, one understands too the scope (and limits)

One wintry day, a Democratic Senator from New York was walking along Pennsylvania Avenue when she spied a snake stiff with the cold. Having great compassion–unlike those hard-hearted conservative bastards who are always walking past stiff, frozen snakes lying in the snow–she picked it up and placed it against her bosom. Her bosom was not particularly ample, but it was covered by a cashmere sweater and a faux-fur coat so

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Why?  I mean, why?

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The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better classes to amuse ourselves by investigating them and uplifting them and at dinners telling how charitable we are. The poor don’t like it much.  They have no gratitude. … But if they are taken firmly in hand they can be kept reasonably dependent and interesting for