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"Big Brother" brought before barrister
Broad babbles bull.
Thursday, July 04, 2002
Wednesday, July 03, 2002
Tuesday, July 02, 2002
Monday, July 01, 2002
Sunday, June 30, 2002
Saturday, June 29, 2002
INTERESTING POEM
"Sweet Hideous"
Sweet, Sweet Hideous :
How I Hate to see You Come, or Leave!
How Your Florid Stench makes Me think I'll Die
Happy.
Oh, Wonderous Monster :
How Your Vulgar Prose Excites Me Sadly!
How You Shout and Scream
In a Whisper.
Oh! Sweet Hideous :
Your Souless Heart Beats, Motionless!
While Pensive Fools Ponder Imponderables
As the Oceans Dry.
Love is Thy Nameless Moniker.
"Sweet Hideous"
Sweet, Sweet Hideous :
How I Hate to see You Come, or Leave!
How Your Florid Stench makes Me think I'll Die
Happy.
Oh, Wonderous Monster :
How Your Vulgar Prose Excites Me Sadly!
How You Shout and Scream
In a Whisper.
Oh! Sweet Hideous :
Your Souless Heart Beats, Motionless!
While Pensive Fools Ponder Imponderables
As the Oceans Dry.
Love is Thy Nameless Moniker.
Friday, June 28, 2002
Thursday, June 27, 2002
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
School Update
My Web Design class is going almost perfectly, and I thus far have a strong A. However, my English class is not going quite as well, as I have currently have a B. Not even a B+, but a B. Looks like my streak of straight As ever since the nightmarish 1995-1996 college year might end this semester. Sigh.
My Web Design class is going almost perfectly, and I thus far have a strong A. However, my English class is not going quite as well, as I have currently have a B. Not even a B+, but a B. Looks like my streak of straight As ever since the nightmarish 1995-1996 college year might end this semester. Sigh.
Monday, June 24, 2002
A BLOCKADE
On Judges, And Others.
If the GOP does not win back the Senate in 2002 (and they likely won't), it's gonna be an ugly two-year Presidential Election Campaign that follows, with little getting done.
On Judges, And Others.
If the GOP does not win back the Senate in 2002 (and they likely won't), it's gonna be an ugly two-year Presidential Election Campaign that follows, with little getting done.
Prediction
Larry Summers, a former member of Clinton's Cabinet, and current President of Harvard, will be a name we will hear a lot about in the coming years. Possible VP pick for the Democrats in 2004.
Larry Summers, a former member of Clinton's Cabinet, and current President of Harvard, will be a name we will hear a lot about in the coming years. Possible VP pick for the Democrats in 2004.
Sunday, June 23, 2002
Saturday, June 22, 2002
Friday, June 21, 2002
Thursday, June 20, 2002
The Draft?
I'd serve, if called. Though frankly I would rather not. But if that is what is needed to defend our great nation from hideous Islamic terrorists, so be it.
I'd serve, if called. Though frankly I would rather not. But if that is what is needed to defend our great nation from hideous Islamic terrorists, so be it.
Jay Nordlinger
Good column, as always.
Here's a bit of it :
"Finally, you may know that Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd is in Geneva, to be medically cared for. There is a fine mosque there. He asked the city fathers for permission to build another one. They replied: Yes — when it is possible to build a church in Riyadh."
Good column, as always.
Here's a bit of it :
"Finally, you may know that Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd is in Geneva, to be medically cared for. There is a fine mosque there. He asked the city fathers for permission to build another one. They replied: Yes — when it is possible to build a church in Riyadh."
Wednesday, June 19, 2002
GREAT ARTICLE
Here's the meat of it :
Last spring I organized college students to investigate the voting registrations of university professors at more than a dozen institutions of higher learning. The students used primary registrations to determine party affiliation. Here is a representative sample:
• At the University of Colorado—a public university in a Republican state—94% of the liberal arts faculty whose party registrations could be established were Democrats and only 4% percent Republicans. Out of 85 professors of English who registered to vote, zero were Republicans. Out of 39 professors of history—one. Out of 28 political scientists—two.
How Republican is Colorado? Its governor, two Senators and four out of six congressmen are Republican. There are 200,000 more registered Republicans in Colorado than there are Democrats. But at the state-funded, University of Colorado, Republicans are a fringe group.
• At Brown University, 94.7% of the professors whose political affiliations showed up in primary registrations last year were Democrats, only 5.3% were Republicans. Only three Republicans could be found on the Brown liberal arts faculty. Zero in the English Department, zero in the History Department, zero in the Political Science Department, zero in the Africana Studies Department, and zero in the Sociology Department.
• At the University of New Mexico, 89% of the professors were Democrats, 7% Republicans and 4% Greens. Of 200 professors, ten were Republicans, but zero in the Political Science Department, zero in the History Department, zero in the Journalism Department and only one each in the Sociology, English, Women’s Studies and African American Studies Departments.
• At the University of California, Santa Barbara, 97% of the professors were Democrats. 1.5% Greens and an equal 1.5% Republicans. Only one Republican professor could be found.
• At the University of California, Berkeley, of the 195 professors whose affiliations showed up, 85% were Democrats, 8% Republicans, 4% Greens and 3% American Independent Party, Peace and Freedom Party and Reform Party voters. Out of 54 professors in the History Department, only one Republican could be found, out of 28 Sociology professors zero, out of 57 English professors zero, out of 16 Women’s Studies professors zero, out of nine African American Studies professors zero, out of six Journalism professors zero.
• At the University of California, Los Angeles, of the 157 professors whose political affiliations showed up 93% were Democrats, only 6.5% were Republicans.
• At the University of North Carolina, the Daily Tar Heel conducted its own survey of eight departments and found that, of the professors registered with a major political party, 91% were Democrats while only 9% were Republicans.
Here's the meat of it :
Last spring I organized college students to investigate the voting registrations of university professors at more than a dozen institutions of higher learning. The students used primary registrations to determine party affiliation. Here is a representative sample:
• At the University of Colorado—a public university in a Republican state—94% of the liberal arts faculty whose party registrations could be established were Democrats and only 4% percent Republicans. Out of 85 professors of English who registered to vote, zero were Republicans. Out of 39 professors of history—one. Out of 28 political scientists—two.
How Republican is Colorado? Its governor, two Senators and four out of six congressmen are Republican. There are 200,000 more registered Republicans in Colorado than there are Democrats. But at the state-funded, University of Colorado, Republicans are a fringe group.
• At Brown University, 94.7% of the professors whose political affiliations showed up in primary registrations last year were Democrats, only 5.3% were Republicans. Only three Republicans could be found on the Brown liberal arts faculty. Zero in the English Department, zero in the History Department, zero in the Political Science Department, zero in the Africana Studies Department, and zero in the Sociology Department.
• At the University of New Mexico, 89% of the professors were Democrats, 7% Republicans and 4% Greens. Of 200 professors, ten were Republicans, but zero in the Political Science Department, zero in the History Department, zero in the Journalism Department and only one each in the Sociology, English, Women’s Studies and African American Studies Departments.
• At the University of California, Santa Barbara, 97% of the professors were Democrats. 1.5% Greens and an equal 1.5% Republicans. Only one Republican professor could be found.
• At the University of California, Berkeley, of the 195 professors whose affiliations showed up, 85% were Democrats, 8% Republicans, 4% Greens and 3% American Independent Party, Peace and Freedom Party and Reform Party voters. Out of 54 professors in the History Department, only one Republican could be found, out of 28 Sociology professors zero, out of 57 English professors zero, out of 16 Women’s Studies professors zero, out of nine African American Studies professors zero, out of six Journalism professors zero.
• At the University of California, Los Angeles, of the 157 professors whose political affiliations showed up 93% were Democrats, only 6.5% were Republicans.
• At the University of North Carolina, the Daily Tar Heel conducted its own survey of eight departments and found that, of the professors registered with a major political party, 91% were Democrats while only 9% were Republicans.
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Monday, June 17, 2002
Sunday, June 16, 2002
Saturday, June 15, 2002
Friday, June 14, 2002
Thursday, June 13, 2002
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Monday, June 10, 2002
Sunday, June 09, 2002
Saturday, June 08, 2002
Friday, June 07, 2002
USA! USA!
Yes, soccer is boring, but it's still nice to be able to beat the best of the rest of the world at their own game.
Yes, soccer is boring, but it's still nice to be able to beat the best of the rest of the world at their own game.
Thursday, June 06, 2002
Two Things
1 - Mr. Rogers went to college in my town! I never knew that!
2 - Dartmouth students are sneering pricks with absolutely no class.
1 - Mr. Rogers went to college in my town! I never knew that!
2 - Dartmouth students are sneering pricks with absolutely no class.
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
Tuesday, June 04, 2002
Monday, June 03, 2002
Bizarre Column
From uber-Leftist, Robert Fisk.
He's upset that some people (including actor John Malkovich) have reacted negatively to his anti-American and anti-Israeli tirades in "The Independent".
Well, people who are getting killed every day, and who are under seige, tend to dislike those who so readily apologize for the murderers of their neighbors, friends, and family. Fisk certainly has a right to to spew his inflammatory hate. But so do his readers.
From uber-Leftist, Robert Fisk.
He's upset that some people (including actor John Malkovich) have reacted negatively to his anti-American and anti-Israeli tirades in "The Independent".
Well, people who are getting killed every day, and who are under seige, tend to dislike those who so readily apologize for the murderers of their neighbors, friends, and family. Fisk certainly has a right to to spew his inflammatory hate. But so do his readers.
Sunday, June 02, 2002
Saturday, June 01, 2002
V. D. Hanson
Here.
He makes a good case for ending US support of Musharraf. But, though I support democratic India over autocratic Pakistan in the current dispute over Kashmir, I feel the US needs to, at least for the time being, continue to support the current unelected Pakistani leadership. They have proven themselves to be allies in the War on Terror, at least the part of it that directly effects US interests. To turn our backs on them so quickly could result in a nightmare resurfacing in Afghanistan, and would do nothing to ease the current tensions which look increasing like they will end in open, possibly nuclear, warfare between India and Pakistan.
The Bush administration should offer some kind of peace plan, not in the unrealistic hope that it will actually bear fruit, but simply to stall for time. When Afghanistan has been sufficiently stabilized, we can then choose our democratic brothers in India over dictatorial Muslims in Pakistan.
Here.
He makes a good case for ending US support of Musharraf. But, though I support democratic India over autocratic Pakistan in the current dispute over Kashmir, I feel the US needs to, at least for the time being, continue to support the current unelected Pakistani leadership. They have proven themselves to be allies in the War on Terror, at least the part of it that directly effects US interests. To turn our backs on them so quickly could result in a nightmare resurfacing in Afghanistan, and would do nothing to ease the current tensions which look increasing like they will end in open, possibly nuclear, warfare between India and Pakistan.
The Bush administration should offer some kind of peace plan, not in the unrealistic hope that it will actually bear fruit, but simply to stall for time. When Afghanistan has been sufficiently stabilized, we can then choose our democratic brothers in India over dictatorial Muslims in Pakistan.
Friday, May 31, 2002
Thursday, May 30, 2002
Wednesday, May 29, 2002
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Mr. Nordlinger
Here :
The mayoral election just concluded in Newark, N.J., was one of the ugliest in memory. It involved the old, entrenched mayor, Sharpe James, and a saner, more moderate upstart, Cory Booker. Both men were black, of course — but some of the most vicious racial politics in this country are intra-black politics. The likes of Sharpe James always play “blacker than thou” — and this is a matter of mouth and posturing, not shade.
James derided Cory Booker as “neo-black” (which is cute, I grant you). The James campaign slogan was “The Real Deal” — everyone in Newark knew what it meant, trust me. James said that Booker was a mere tool of the Right, and of whites. (Both men, naturally, are Democrats — but Booker is open to such notions as school choice and non-theft in government.) The New York Sun reproduced a cartoon that the James campaign had purveyed: It showed a factory, at which “neo-black politicos” were being made. In succession were Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and the challenger, Cory Booker. Two white men were in the foreground, chomping cigars and grinning. They were labeled “right-wing foundations.” One was saying to the other, “They’re so popular, we can’t produce them fast enough.” The other was saying, “I hear they always sell out.”
James won, of course — but only with 53 percent of the vote, which should give some cause for hope. The entire (white) Democratic establishment in New Jersey was behind him.
On the subject of racial politics — intra-black politics — I remember very well a mayoral race in Detroit. It pitted Dennis Archer, who became mayor, against a woman named Sharon McPhail. Now, McPhail was a very, very light-skinned woman — freckles and all. She probably could have passed. And her entire campaign was geared to the idea that Archer — who was infinitely darker than she — wasn’t “black” enough. She talked constantly of Archer’s (alleged) white support (not that such support, even if it had existed, would’ve mattered a lick in Detroit). I thought this was a stunning example of racial politics: that Sharon McPhail should try to out-black Dennis Archer — and get away with it, really.
And I always suspected, too, that one reason Archer’s predecessor, Coleman Young, was so aggressive, crude, and racist was that, as a light-skinned man (also with freckles), he was always trying to prove his credentials. No one could “out-black” him. Young may have been the most vilely racist man I ever witnessed — although he has some stiff competition.
Here :
The mayoral election just concluded in Newark, N.J., was one of the ugliest in memory. It involved the old, entrenched mayor, Sharpe James, and a saner, more moderate upstart, Cory Booker. Both men were black, of course — but some of the most vicious racial politics in this country are intra-black politics. The likes of Sharpe James always play “blacker than thou” — and this is a matter of mouth and posturing, not shade.
James derided Cory Booker as “neo-black” (which is cute, I grant you). The James campaign slogan was “The Real Deal” — everyone in Newark knew what it meant, trust me. James said that Booker was a mere tool of the Right, and of whites. (Both men, naturally, are Democrats — but Booker is open to such notions as school choice and non-theft in government.) The New York Sun reproduced a cartoon that the James campaign had purveyed: It showed a factory, at which “neo-black politicos” were being made. In succession were Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and the challenger, Cory Booker. Two white men were in the foreground, chomping cigars and grinning. They were labeled “right-wing foundations.” One was saying to the other, “They’re so popular, we can’t produce them fast enough.” The other was saying, “I hear they always sell out.”
James won, of course — but only with 53 percent of the vote, which should give some cause for hope. The entire (white) Democratic establishment in New Jersey was behind him.
On the subject of racial politics — intra-black politics — I remember very well a mayoral race in Detroit. It pitted Dennis Archer, who became mayor, against a woman named Sharon McPhail. Now, McPhail was a very, very light-skinned woman — freckles and all. She probably could have passed. And her entire campaign was geared to the idea that Archer — who was infinitely darker than she — wasn’t “black” enough. She talked constantly of Archer’s (alleged) white support (not that such support, even if it had existed, would’ve mattered a lick in Detroit). I thought this was a stunning example of racial politics: that Sharon McPhail should try to out-black Dennis Archer — and get away with it, really.
And I always suspected, too, that one reason Archer’s predecessor, Coleman Young, was so aggressive, crude, and racist was that, as a light-skinned man (also with freckles), he was always trying to prove his credentials. No one could “out-black” him. Young may have been the most vilely racist man I ever witnessed — although he has some stiff competition.
Monday, May 27, 2002
Sunday, May 26, 2002
Disgusting
Article here.
Daniel Schweimler writes, "Addressing a crowd of about 300,000 people in the central city of Sancti Spiritus, [Castro] said not a drop of American blood had been spilt because of terrorist acts commissioned by Cuba." Yeah, but what about the blood of non-Americans?
More : "But the Cuban authorities accused [President Bush] of playing to the Cuban exile community in Florida to ensure that his brother, Jeb, is re-elected as governor later this year." Unlikely. But even if that were the case, at least we allow elections!
Article here.
Daniel Schweimler writes, "Addressing a crowd of about 300,000 people in the central city of Sancti Spiritus, [Castro] said not a drop of American blood had been spilt because of terrorist acts commissioned by Cuba." Yeah, but what about the blood of non-Americans?
More : "But the Cuban authorities accused [President Bush] of playing to the Cuban exile community in Florida to ensure that his brother, Jeb, is re-elected as governor later this year." Unlikely. But even if that were the case, at least we allow elections!
Saturday, May 25, 2002
Friday, May 24, 2002
QUOTE OF THE DAY
From John Derbyshire, on Dick Cheney :
"He makes me feel that if I have thought of something, he's probably thought of it first."
From John Derbyshire, on Dick Cheney :
"He makes me feel that if I have thought of something, he's probably thought of it first."
Thursday, May 23, 2002
Another Prediction
GERMAN POLITICS
In September, the Social Democrats (Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's party) will lose seats. The Christian Democrats will gain seats. But the big winner will be Guido Westerwelle and his Free Democrats. Schroder will dump the Greens and take the Free Democrats into his coalition. This means Schroder remains Chancellor, but with a center-right coalition as opposed to the center-left coalition he currently heads.
And the EU will be dead in the water. Heh.
GERMAN POLITICS
In September, the Social Democrats (Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's party) will lose seats. The Christian Democrats will gain seats. But the big winner will be Guido Westerwelle and his Free Democrats. Schroder will dump the Greens and take the Free Democrats into his coalition. This means Schroder remains Chancellor, but with a center-right coalition as opposed to the center-left coalition he currently heads.
And the EU will be dead in the water. Heh.
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
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