image via www.ameinfo.com
I wasn’t able to attend the House Edit meeting the night before the 4.11 piece was written, but had I been there, this piece would have been different.
image via runupthescore.blogspot.com
Roger Goodell is the NFL’s rookie comish, and he’s apparently trying to let everyone know he’s not afraid to regulate. He recently handed down some monster suspensions with the support of the players’ union president. Nice.
Pacman Jones, of the Tennessee Titans, got benched for the year for having had ten run-ins with the fuzz. Damn, dude. Bodog.com is hosting a wager on whether Pacman will be arrested before December 31 of 2007. Kudos to Bodog. Not only do they provide employment for NYU strongman Chad Lierley, but now they’re letting us bet on athlete misconduct.
Had this been around during the reign of Nate Newton I would have a little more spending money right now.
Can you spell cottage industry?
Matthias Kuentzel image via arbeiterfotografie.com
German academic Matthias Kuentzel, who has written extensively about religious and political extremism in Islamic societies and the history of totalitarian politics more generally, was scheduled to give a talk on the nexus between the Nazis and contemporary anti-Semitism in Islam. He had given the talk before, he said, and nothing had happened. His Leeds lecture was cancelled due to security concerns stemming from a barrage of inflamed e-mails objecting to giving him a platform from which to speak. But, the University emphasized, this was not a speech issue: it was a security issue, and only so because they hadn’t been given enough time to plan for it.
Lame.
Photo of WSP by Hubert Steed, Image of Stalin via traveladventures.org
The Tamiment Library and the Faculty of Arts and Science are collaborating on a Cold War studies project.
Great! As more and more archives in Moscow open up, historians will be able to paint an ever more accurate picture of the period.
According to Ronald Radosh, however, that is isn’t really what the Center for the Cold War and the United States is about. It sounds like its going to consist of a bunch of lefty academics talking about the cold war as if communism was never really, like, a problem for our country.
Radosh writes that
Desirable proposals … would deal with “political repression and resistance.” No proposal … would be welcome that took as its starting point the belief that, in the 1930s and ’40s, American communists just may have posed an actual threat to America’s national security, and that does not view the question of how to deal with this problem as anything but repression.
A quick glance at the titles of the programs makes this clear. One seems to draw a parallel between the U.S. under the Johnson Administration to South Africa’s apartheid regime during the same time. Nice.
The program would be uncontroversial if it wasn’t for the fact that, as Radosh shows, views that conflict with the “cheerleader” position aren’t welcome at the Center.
Unfortunately, this endeavor makes it seem as if NYU is playing into the David Horowitz - Indoctrination U stereotype that universities are unrepentant bastions of left-wing bias - a stereotype based on many kernels of truth, but none of which I have personally experienced.
image via Breitbart
I’ve always thought this shot has the Sheikh bearing an uncanny resemblance to some legenday funny man. Who was it …. oh yea, thats right:
Maybe its the disgruntled-ness. Maybe it’s the copious body hair. Whatever it is, I think the dude looks like Belushi. Thoughts?
I’m kind of in the thick of work, so the posts have been few and far between, but I thought the readers might like a little fun, especially the Colonel (whereever he is).
Image via thisislondon.co.uk (by The Evening Standard)
I wonder what other exciting things will surface from Tony’s past after he retires …
Read the story behind the picture here.
Major pwnage about to happen. (Image via maxfighting.com)
Shad Lierley, the NYU alum WSN profiled yesterday, is a total badass. (Note, he isn’t in the above picture - but there was a picture of him doing some manual plastic surgery of his own on some hapless clown in the WSN piece)
Since my esteemed colleague Eric Bruenner fancies himself such a snarling asshole, I’d like to hear his thoughts on how he’d fair in the squared circle with Lierley.
Re: “Sarah”’s comment on my latest piece …
Though he has drawn much fire, Paul Campos has questioned the use of BMI:
To be sure, even if the BMI categories can be spectacularly wrong in cases such as those involving professional athletes, they’re often a pretty good indicator of how “fat” most people are in everyday life. The real question is whether being fat–as determined by the BMI or by any other measure–is actually a health risk. To answer this question, it’s necessary to examine the epidemiological evidence.
Scotsman writer Alex Massie claims that the British army lost Iraq’s south because the Labour Party mistreated the British defense forces.
Colonel Bloomington-Smythe, what say ye? How far have your beloved comrades fallen?
First of all, in terms of the all-caps issue, refer to this.
(Image via The Best Page In The Universe, by Maddox)
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I didn’t write a column addressing the immigration event tiff. But if I did, it would have been very similar to what Rachel Fried wrote in today’s opinion section.
If I understand correctly, “Allergic to Hypocrisy” concludes that the immigrant event was racist because the CR’s couldn’t possibly be serious about wanting to uphold any laws (such as immigration laws), as they obviously engage in underage drinking themselves.
And if they are in fact breaking the law, how truthful is their justification that an “illegal immigrant hunt” is about law and not about RACISM?
Since most college students probably break underage drinking laws, how about we declare that anyone who engaged in underage drinking as an undergrad can’t go to law school, or become a lawyer, or a judge, or study public policy, or do anything else that requires one to care about upholding laws, or even making them in the first place?
Thanks for the all-caps on “racism,” by the way. Sometimes I get vision problems when I’m trying to read non-sequiturs.
goes to Eric Bruenner for using the phrase, “genderless wookies”.
That is just awesome.
So, apparently Sarah Chambers didn’t have any idea that the conventional media would give such coverage to the event. Hmm. Maybe I’m biased, but I do buy that - the Affirmative Action Bake Sale was described by oppositionists as at least as hateful a thing to do as “Find the Illegal,” and the only press it got was local.
And she is right in saying that merely having a lecture wouldn’t have got people talking at all. Now people are. I just think it remains to be seen how much the event itself poisoned and/or cut down the seriousness or policy-focused-ness of the discourse.
Oh yea, and I think an honorable mention should go to Matt Buchanan for illustrating through the use of potty-language the childishness of the dialogue around here that has heretofore transpired. WSN needs more literary creativity of that sort.
So yeah: genderless wookies and cock-faces.
There’s not much I can say about George Soros that Martin Peretz hasn’t already said. Except that this extraordinarily wealthy guy who prides himself on his left-wing-ness (I think he basically founded MoveOn.org, right?) bought 1.9 million shares of Halliburton in the fourth quarter of FY 2006.
I don’t actually have a problem with this, or any other of Soros’ investment decisions (my problem with him is that I think he is a pompous egomaniac, among other things.)
But I do find it interesting that he holds a substantial interest in a company completely reviled by most people who profess to ally themselves with MoveOn, and with his other various political ventures.
A little brain-nosh.
As far as WSN’s reportage on “Find the Illegal,” I agree the most with quotes by two people: President Sexty, and my friend Roman Schwartz.
Sexton: “Such events as today’s place sloganeering and trivialization of thought above true debate … As a university community of scholars and learners, we can do better, and we can set a better example for the quality of dialogue we hope for in our country.”
Roman: “It’s morons protesting morons,” Schwartz said. “Take a look around. I’m a Democrat, and I think it’s ridiculous.”
I’m a Republican, and I thought it was ridiculous.
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