tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077580.post114049054929178770..comments2023-10-30T11:47:51.272-04:00Comments on lefter, warmer: New Heights of Absurdityrebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384242746548343890noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077580.post-1140794224210347602006-02-24T10:17:00.000-05:002006-02-24T10:17:00.000-05:00Indeed, I had a really annoying student whose emai...Indeed, I had a really annoying student whose email address appropriately began with "fuccisyourproblem."rebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03384242746548343890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077580.post-1140671951099480672006-02-23T00:19:00.000-05:002006-02-23T00:19:00.000-05:00Oy. Dersh. which should I be laughing at more "aca...Oy. Dersh. which should I be laughing at more "academic coup" or "hard left"? <BR/> What constitutes "hard left" these days, the Marxist Literary Group? ( http://mlg.eserver.org/ )rebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03384242746548343890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077580.post-1140661258369003792006-02-22T21:20:00.000-05:002006-02-22T21:20:00.000-05:00The academic coup d'etat engineered by hard left m...The academic coup d'etat engineered by hard left members of the faculty of arts and sciences against Harvard's president Lawrence Summers has broad implications beyond Cambridge and even beyond the Ivy League. It represents a major victory for hard-left censors over reasoned discourse about controversial issues. The political correctness cops won a big victory, and reasoned discourse suffered a significant defeat. <A HTTP://WWW.HUFFINGTONPOST.COM/ALAN-DERSHOWITZ/LAWRENCE-SUMMERSS-DISHON_B_16159.HTML HREF="" REL="nofollow">Dersh</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077580.post-1140632028059140442006-02-22T13:13:00.000-05:002006-02-22T13:13:00.000-05:00This is akin to Nero's fiddling while Rome burned...This is akin to Nero's fiddling while Rome burned. Plus ca change etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077580.post-1140566084753574882006-02-21T18:54:00.000-05:002006-02-21T18:54:00.000-05:00"...Even though universities give students email a..."...Even though universities give students email addresses, it’s often the case that students won’t use them. Instead they prefer their free hotmail or yahoo or gmail addresses. No problem as such there, except that sometimes the students pick the kind of addresses for themselves that aren’t exactly professional-quality. Frankly it feels a bit odd to correspond with, e.g., missbitchy23 or WildcatBongs about letters of reference or what have you" <A HREF="http://crookedtimber.org/2006/02/21/email-from-students/" REL="nofollow">Kieran Healy</A> via Atrios, re <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/education/21professors.html?ex=1298178000&en=361f9efce267b517&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss" REL="nofollow">NYT</A> article on student emails to professorsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077580.post-1140523449246608752006-02-21T07:04:00.000-05:002006-02-21T07:04:00.000-05:00history lesson - CANCELLEDIn a seven-year-old secr...history lesson - <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/politics/21reclassify.html?hp&ex=1140584400&en=aefb4d8fc1e315bc&ei=5094&partner=homepage" REL="nofollow">CANCELLED</A><BR/><BR/>In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians.<BR/><BR/>...<BR/><BR/>an intelligence historian, Matthew M. Aid, noticed that dozens of documents he had copied years ago had been withdrawn from the archives' open shelves.<BR/><BR/>Mr. Aid was struck by what seemed to him the innocuous contents of the documents — mostly decades-old State Department reports from the Korean War and the early cold war. He found that eight reclassified documents had been previously published in the State Department's history series, "Foreign Relations of the United States."<BR/><BR/>"The stuff they pulled should never have been removed," he said. "Some of it is mundane, and some of it is outright ridiculous."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com