Hot Air has the video. Obvious follow-up question: Is this a scientific anomaly based on some sort of Persian resistance to chemical differences in the brain? Or were, like, stones involved? **** update: Students applaud and cheer; Dean Coatsworth shakes Mahmoud’s hand. Like I said he would. Next up, stuffed shrimp and a bit of hobnobbing with the earnest chin-rubbers from the cultural studies and English departments. All in all,
September 24, 2007
I can't prove it just yet…
…but I’m beginning to suspect Dilbert might just be the kind of cubicle jockey who in his free time would happily go door-to-door in support of a Wesley Clark/Jim Moran presidential ticket — not because he hates the Jews, mind you. But rather because he just doesn’t like to see them controlling US foreign policy while simultaneously oppressing and murdering the Palestinian people. Besides, he’s read Portnoy’s Complaint. So let’s
another moment of unabashed pragmatism
It would’ve taken me less than five minutes to unload the dishwasher — but rather than putting away freshly scrubbed plates and glasses, I decided to relax, read the sports page, and enjoy a blueberry muffin, instead. Best decision of the morning, I think — though there’s no telling what I’d do had I the same choice to make all over again. Which, I suppose, is why I’m such a
More "free exchange of ideas"
Via LGF and PJM, news that protesters are being removed from the area around ground zero: Andrew Marcus – on video assignment for PJM – reports that the Port Authority evicted protesters from Ground Zero this morning. Group – including family members of 9/11 victims – was in front of the PATH station protesting possible appearance at Ground Zero by Ahmadinejad. I can’t say that I blame the Port Authority.
"Seniors Balk at Ban on Free Doughnuts"
Which is just crazy. I mean, don’t these wizened ingrates understand that the ban is for their own good? From the AP: It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool – and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts. They wore sandwich boards proclaiming, “Give Us Our Just Desserts” and “They’re Carbs, Not Contraband.” At issue is a decision
"Free Speech" and the Academy
Evidently Columbia University, champion of free speech and the free exchange of ideas (idea 1. Genocide is bad; idea 2. In theory, yes. Unless Jews are involved), is taking certain precautions to make sure that their ostentatious commitment to “free speech” and the “free exchange of ideas” remains untroubled by the kind of annoying dissent that can turn such a signature moment of academic “tolerance” into a potential hate crime.
