CNews 5January09
Way OT: For those PB readers who feel that "9-11 Was An Inside Job" and "The Illuminati" and "There Were Two Shooters On The Grassy Knoll" lost their coolness due to over-commercialization, there's still a chance to get in on the ground floor of the latest conspiracy theory, that being "Ward Churchill is The Puppetmaster, the devil incarnate, singlehandedly responsible for all human suffering." How do we know? Snapple (long banned from this site for—well, visit her site and you'll understand what for) has opened her blog for commenting. Please do so. Rickrolling optional.
CNews 3January09
From our With Friends Like This department: Two prominent animal rights activists exchanged emails a while back, and discussed, um, "the massive imbalance of power between humans and animals" and also found time to comment on The Perfesser:
[Norm Phelps to Steven Best] "I find nothing in A People’s History (a book I much admire) to suggest that a group with as little popular support for its goals as animal rights can accomplish anything by sabotage and violence except its own destruction. Ward Churchill’s success at depriving himself of a very important bully pulpit from which to speak out against oppression is an excellent illustration of this point. Whatever his merits as a scholar may or may not be, as an activist and strategist, he is a buffoon living in a fantasy world. How else can you describe an academic who poses for publicity photos wearing Che Guevara style camouflage and beret and holding an automatic rifle? (A Che complex is just a left-wing version of a Zorro complex.)"
CNews 28December08
DrunkaBiff has a twofer: A post about Wardman and his sidekick Truthforce begging for money to pay the legal costs of battle the Death Star that is the CU legal department, and a post about Bill Ayers' picks for The One's cabinet (spoiler alert: they're all commies). Good Drunkasneering in both posts, though of course, not nearly enough.
CNews 22December08
The DrunkaScourge has discovered that The Perfesser (or someone stupid enough to convincingly pretend to be Ward Churchill) has a Facebook page. Finally, Chutch can mingle with his intellectual equals. Among his Facebook friends The Perfesser can count Bill Ayers, Hugo Rafael Chavez Frías (the prexie of Venezuala has a Facebook page. Who knew?), Aquarius Cheer, and Gabriel Con Carne.
We're guessing that this is a "loose change" strategy by which
CNews 14December08
Courtesy PB reader Leah, we learn of a new hard-hitting indictment of the military-industrial-academic Axis of Evil soon to be unveiled to a waiting nation: In two months, Indiana University of Pennsylvania will rip the lid off fascist-imperialist Amerikkka with the IUP English Department's publication of a 600-page, double-volume Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University.
According to the press release, "[T]he collection [...] features 28 contributors, including such luminaries as race scholar Cornel West, world renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky, Constitutional Law Professor Derrick Bell, Pulitzer finalist Martín Espada, academic freedom specialist Bob O’Neil, and AAUP President Cary Nelson[....]"
Naturally, no such opus would be complete without the inclusion of an essay of "nearly 90 pages and using more than 400 endnotes to buttress [the work]" in which Ward "The Nation's Conscience" Churchill "provides a meticulously detailed account—the only one of its kind—of his experiences confronting the machinations of politicians, media, and the Colorado Board of Regents, which conspired to successfully strip him of his tenured professorship."
Sadly, no price is mentioned, and the late-February publication date suggests strongly that IUP's marketing mavens overlooked the obvious stocking-stuffer aspect of the collection.
...In any case, to help kick-off what will surely mark the long-awaited beginning of the end of fascist-imperialist Amerikkka, "An academic freedom symposium featuring Ward Churchill as keynote speaker is scheduled to follow shortly thereafter on February 23, 2009." We can only assume this earth-shattering symposium is taking place at IUP; neither the English department's calendar nor IUP's various calendars currently note the event.
Speaking of nadirs, Professor Peter N. Kirstein unleashes his incredible gobstopping intellect in his plea to "Stop the “Lynching” of Rod Blagojevich: A Great Governor"
CNews 12December08
After years of watching CU garner all the attention, envious Kansas State University is considering adding Ethnic Studies as a major. (ht Grant Jones)
Favorite Quote:
"I think that puts American Ethnic Studies in a really special place to help students and to help the rest of the university achieve those goals," [Cheryl Ragar, assistant professor in American Ethnic Studies,] said[.]
Yes, if KSU's goals are infamy, ridicule, and irrelevance.
CNews 26November08
Quote of the Day: "I came to the unfortunate conclusion that ethnic studies, women studies — indeed, anything “studies” — were perhaps the fruits of some evil plot dreamed up by illiberal white separatists to ensure that poor minority students in the public schools and universities were offered only a third-rate education."
CNews 18November08
For our Cornhusker readers who need cheering up in these dismal times, tomorrow UNO journalism professor Bruce Johansen will debate chemistry professor Robert Smith on the subject of Global Warming. Also on the bill: Fred Flintstone will challenge Ludwig von Mises' assertions on free market economics, and Ward Churchill will debate anybody about anything.
Update: the D-a-B His Own Bad Self reminds us that there still may exist a handful of people scattered in the hinterlands (map) who aren't aware of PB's history with professor Johansen. So, for those benighted few:
- At First Glance
- je t'accuse
- I'm rubber and you're glue!
- Nobody's stooge
- interregnum
- Wherein Our Hero reveals how the pernicious PB singlehandedly undermined the spotless reputation of the Denver media, destroyed the career of Mr. Chips, strangled kittens, and brought shame and disgrace to the international anti-Churchill blogging cartel, a cou de gras* Nancy Pelosi blames for triggering the global recession, and from which the world may never recover.
* Yes, we're aware that cou de gras means fat neck. What's it to ya?
CNews 17November08
According to The Daily Gleaner, beloved impressionist Ward Churchill will be among the entertainers on hand during St. Thomas University's Native Awareness Days November 17-21 (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canuckistan). This year's theme, steeped in thick, creamy irony just like Mom used to make: "Combating Convenient Untruths." And according to this site, The Perfesser's chosen topic for his blahbification November 18 is "Eugenics by Any Other Name: The Scientific Foundations of the Social Sciences."
Update: Of interest is the continuing truncation (or, for the oxymoronically inclined, increasing abbreviation) of Churchill's "about me" blurbs; the ones in the two articles linked above do not even include the words professor, scholar, tenured, or Indian, leading us to suspect that the blurb will eventually consist of "this dude a guy we know turned us on to." The circle of life, Simba.
Update II: More (but still not enough) derision over at the D-a-B.
CNews 11November08
Random Thoughts
"[I]gnorance of Ph.D.s is still ignorance and high-IQ groupthink is still groupthink, which is the antithesis of real thinking." Thomas Sowell
Weak, cowardly predators tend to hunt in a pack. When the pack gets large enough, we call it a People's Republic.
We should immediately go back to our original American religious roots, and by that, of course, we're referring to the Aztec religion. After all, who hasn't fantasized at least once about standing atop a stone pyramid and showing Nancy Pelosi her still-beating heart? On second thought, she probably doesn't meet the virgo intacta requirement, so maybe we should call ourselves the Reformed Aztecs.
Tearing everything down and rebuilding civilization from the ground up sounds like such a good idea until you realize you have to use the same imperfect building materials. Not to mention the truism that nothing is ever built according to plan or within budget. Besides which, what makes you think you'll be around for the rebuilding?
One of the overlooked benefits of an Obama Administration is that finding the circumference of a circle will be much easier when pi equals 3.0. That'll give us all much more time to enjoy the unicorns and rainbows.
Here's a very good idea: StupidFilter, even though we doubt it'll catch on without a Terminate With Extreme Prejudice module.
Despite popular belief, there is not an endless supply of Enemies of the State. Once the initial group is consumed, another is selected for predation, then another, until at last, the few remaining survivors expire chewing on one another's entrails. This is the fatal flaw of all carrion eaters.
Public education sounds far less appetizing when mentioned in conjunction with other government enterprises such as public parks, public housing, and public toilets. [we stole this from someone, but we don't recall who it was]
Bailing out a failure is wrong, whether the failure is a human being, or a corporation.
Victory In Europe required the deaths of Europeans. Victory Over Japan required the deaths of Japanese. Perhaps now would be a good time to consider the requirements for Victory Over Collectivism.
When someone speaks of "different truths" you can be confident that his is a lie.
Of course, yours might be, as well, so always double-check.
