they couldn’t get any dumber, the Gang of 88 at Duke stage a super-secret teach-in to counter the McCarthyism of criticizing the Gang of 88. They wouldn’t allow recording devices, because that would have corrupted the proceedings and provided an opportunity for misrepresentation.
They also objected to syllabi being reported. I have a big, giant Freedom of Information Act form to hammer them with, though.
Scum. Twipe. Tenured douchebaggery.
Epimenides Paradox: “You can never tell if someone is telling the truth about their lies”
More Cowbell: Don’t Fear the Queefer
Yikes! I’m afeared!
This is a tenured professor at Duke. Unbelievable.
What? Didn’t you take Thug Studies?
Isn’t amazing, B Moe, how they think it’s the height of heroism to strike a pose that they just know will be eaten up by the fawning intelligentsia? Vogue, baby.
I mean, that sounds like some shit the crackheads and winos down on the corner would talk. I am amazed they have the self-awareness to close the meeting, their grip on reality being as tenuous as it is.
Speaking of crackheads and winos, I noticed via Memeorandum that our favorite Brazilian sockpuppet apparently surfaced last night on Skeletor Colmes’ radio show, and is now crowing all over the blogosphere about how he destroyed Frank Gaffney in debate on the show. I guess it beats his last gig defending white supremists . . .
Which one was it, Jim?
On the show he went by plain ole Glenn Greenwald, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Ellison, Thomas Ellers, Ryan, Wilson, and the rest of the cast of thousand sockpuppets called in to bolster his case, talk about how he was cited on the floor of the Senate, is published by the NYT, etc, etc.
In a class discussion on FOIA at the U. of Michigan, our professor (a friendly sort, nice guy) mused that, theoretically, the contents of a professor’s hard drive could be requested through FOIA if they’re professors at a public university.
Then he paused, and said, “Please don’t FOIA my hard drive.”
Who wants to FOIA Juan Cole’s?
Duke’s private, so I don’t know if your FOIA request is going to go far. Maybe you could use acceptance of federal funds as a hook.
LOL!
Are you the only sane people on the planet?
I suspect Duke’s president is ready to fire most of these morons but is worried about the NAACP and AL Sharpton descending on campus.
Duke’s basketball team has always been very good and has usually been very white so there’s always that angle to play Rev. Jackson.
Wait they suck this year ? Ok never mind.
Just who is the victim here? You’d be forgiven for getting the impression that the “Gang of 88” think it’s them?
I’d like to ask the “Shoot-First-Ask-Questions-Later Gang” something, in an attempt to, you know, overload their circuits.
It’s this (I know it’s getting late, but I’m just trying to “get at” the corrugations in their logics.):
Or, put another way:
Help?
Who knew that all the “Larger Societal Issues” doublespeak wouldn’t fly as soon at it left the safe confines of the campus?
Certainly not the deluded “88”.
Screaming “victim” also doesn’t seem to get the mileage it used to.
RIP Marty Feldman.
A point that alphoo-victim must never have grasped.
Is that a pic of Amandas amazing vigina?
and
WTF is Twipe?
Twipe is a product with a portmanteau name, SGT Ted.
A state school wouldn’t be subject to the federal law that is the FOIA.
That’s a nice Sile Ni Gig. County Clare is full of them, mostly in churches.
They’re sometimes thought of as fertility symbols, so it’s a bit of a pity this one got associated with Marcotte.