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“Well, sure—though to be completely fair, I don’t really exist, except as a romanticized projection of a certain counter-culture aesthetic and ideology. A useful fiction, of sorts. |
“—Which, now that I think about it, pretty much describes the bulk of your scholarship. So, you know, we’ve got that in common.“But let’s not go letting the Man ruin our day. Instead, what’s say we smoke a bit of stink weed, drink us some whiskey, then go find a weak white guy who’s wandered away from his herd and kick the everliving shit out of him!”*
I weep for a University that can’t bring itself to fire a plagiarist professor—but whom I’m quite sure would frown upon plagiarism from a student.
Or even Joe Biden, should he buck convention and get all warmongery.
Anybody remember anything about a certain elite university in…where was it?, North Carolina?…in the news recently? Anybody get suspended or, gasp, fired for anything there?
I mean, besides the lacrosse coach.
That’s kind of what I thought was so weird about Susan Estrich’s defense of Chris Albrecht. Does she really not know how the average HBO staffer would be treated for far lesser infractions?
Now, we are to presume, there is a ‘civil right’ to plagiarize and falsify one’s research?
Do me a favor and chisel that on the academy’s tombstone while I bang my head on this wall54.
a civil rights lawsuit
Huh? Churchill is white guy, isn’t he? What might his other grounds be, agism?
Jeez, even the Boston Globe got rid of Mike Barnicle for plagiarism.
Churchill, Chomsky and Zinn…oh my!
Shhhhh!!! Shut up!!! Shut UP!!!
He’s of the genus/species honkus indius, a fairly common mutation of the honkus montovanius. This species is known for its loud bray, camoflaging plumage and tendency to engage in public strutting to advertise its presence.
Inventing tenure. Defending plagiary. Convicting innocent men in the court of the media. Harrassing nonconformers to the prevailing political groupthink. Blaming the US for every possible ill in the world through post modern multicultural Orwellianspeak. Wishing for a “million Mogadishus.”
Damn. Is there anything modern academia can’t do?
How about live up to their so called ideals and standards?
Sorry. Anything but that.
How about live up to their so called ideals and standards?
Oh, they do that.
And yet another reason I have no regrets about not having children. Yikes.
I mean, it ain’t like he defended Bush or something. Seriously, I did love this bit:
LOL!
If that’s not damning with faint praise, nothing is.
Don’t be so sure–this is CU-Boulder, after all. Outside of its admittedly excellent science and law departments, I can’t think of anyone in the state that thinks CU isn’t a joke of a university in a joke of a town.
LOL ain’t the half of it, B Moe. A better example of the Rule of the Inverse (“The less important the issue, the more rancorous the debate”) would be hard to find.
Churchill and the academic debaters—proponents and detractors alike—are (semi-)human SUVs, resource-hogging, pollution-spewing, road-blocking monuments to conspicuous consumption whose function could be adequately filled at a quarter the cost and a tenth of the space they take up, but which we keep around because we can. Their blather serves the same purpose as the LED taillights on an Escalade—every flash blinds the Joneses with a reminder not only that we can afford the waste, but that we can clean up the air in LA at the same time.
This is not to say we’ll be able to afford it forever; bankruptcy is always a possibility if we pay too much attention to their blather, which is most of where Jeff is coming from. But for the time being, Akademician Churchill of the University of the People’s Republic of Boulder is a delightfully shiny set of bling! hubcaps on the Civilization Machine, and ought to be paraded down Pearl Street at every opportunity. When you got it, flaunt it.
He and his fellows know it, too, at some level too deep to acknowledge publicly, and it’s a big contributor to the hatefulness they spew. Never mind. When it’s time to chop, the axe will come out. In the meantime, enjoy the fireworks.
Regards,
Ric
Which is EXACTLY why the whole concept of tenure in public universities should be destroyed. They generally just don’t deserve the privilege (And it is a privilege, not a right).
Irony: The people in the position to make that change have tenure.
Why the uncharacteristic silence from timbo, sementickleo, alfi?
Is this WC not worth defending?
Eh, they’re parlor pinks. Churchill can pose with all of the Kalashnikovs he wants; at the end of the day, it’s a pose and nothing more. The tenured don’t make revolutions; the formerly tenured are too comical to attract supporters.
Don’t these universities have Boards that can get rid of the tenure system?
With all the academics coming to his defense it kinda’ makes you wonder what little bits of incompetence, plagarism and malfeasance some of these profs are afraid they might become accountable for if the let Churchill take this fall.
tw: soviet97…boy it’s good, isn’t it?
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