Archives for the 'academia' Category

Meet Michael Bhatia

Published on 11 May 2008 at 11:27 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under military, Afghanistan, academia.

The late Michael Bhatia’s work, photos and some interesting vid interview segments at this tribute site. Comes across about as academically wonkish as they come, all the more interesting that he would take so direct a role, that would lead to his death in combat in the company of American soldiers.  

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Fallen American

Published on 9 May 2008 at 10:34 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, military, Afghanistan, academia.

Doesn’t really look like the kind of guy who would be killed in the lead Humvee of a four-vehicle combat patrol, riding with the 101st Airborne’s Task Force Currahee in Khowst Province, does he? A little bookish, maybe. But it maybe there’s something there in the eyes. Hard to tell from a snapshot. Easy to read it in, […]

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Know Thy Enemy

Published on 9 May 2008 at 12:17 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under moronocy, academia.

Or not, at thy own risk. Reynolds weighs in with praise for the ACLU and the press, as well as FIRE, in resolving the bizarre case of PC persecution of a reading janitor at a university that has its head even farther up an inaccessible place than usual. The red-faced anti-educationists are forced to admit […]

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Hurricane Watch

Published on 29 Apr 2008 at 10:11 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under warmglob, academia.

Hurricane forecaster and noted warming skeptic William Gray says Colorado State University is trying to ice him out by cutting publicity support for his forecasts.  Not clear from the article what that means.  No more press releases or press conferences?  They won’t hand out his number when reporters call during hurrican season?  Not a lot […]

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Oppressing Oppression

Published on 31 Mar 2008 at 9:18 pm. 10 Comments.
Filed under moronocy, academia.

This is entirely charming.  The dreadlocked, body-pierced granola-crunchers with sprouts stuck between their teeth at Hampshire College want “anti-oppression training” for all staff.  

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Kinder, Gentler Superpower

Published on 22 Mar 2008 at 9:46 am. 7 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, GWOT, academia, America.

Envisioned by Shawn Brimley, the Bacevich Fellow at the Center for a New American Security,* who says in this essay at Small Wars Journal we need to be willing to use force, yet not in ways that piss people off.  There is of course a fundamental disconnect there, and Brimley’s opening Bush-bash fails to notice that a big […]

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Power Down

Published on 7 Mar 2008 at 5:00 pm. 7 Comments.
Filed under pols, moronocy, academia.

UPDATES. Samantha Power quits Obama campaign over “Monster” remarks. Times of London: 

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Yea, Though I Walk …

Published on 1 Mar 2008 at 9:59 am. No Comments.
Filed under Boston, academia, baseball.

… through the Stadium of the Evil Empire ….  Red Sox fans among NYU’s Class  of ‘08 forced to endure commencement in Yankee Stadium. Boston Herald:  

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Terror Drill Reveals Critical School Security Deficiency

Published on 27 Feb 2008 at 9:43 pm. 6 Comments.
Filed under academia.

Students and faculty don’t read administration e-mail alerts. I like the part where the “armed intruder” announces he’s going to kill the student with the lowest GPA. That’s really adding humiliation to terror. Charlotte Observer: 

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Ivy Skin

Published on 6 Feb 2008 at 6:43 pm. 6 Comments.
Filed under sex, shameless opportunism, academia.

More high-brow nudies at Harvard.  Crimson:  

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Welcome to Massachusetts

Published on 26 Jan 2008 at 8:57 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under academia, racism.

No place for hate. No place for teaching about hate, either. Boston Herald:

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How Fast to Australia?

Published on 20 Oct 2007 at 10:50 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under anthronerdism, science, academia, Neanderthals, apes.

And other sci-tems. The superlative anthroblogger John Hawks taps us into the issue of whether the earliest colonization of Oz was a matter of accidental vegetation* or if they strapped bits of wood together and paddled, 60,000-plus years ago. Meanwhile, in Watson news: 

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Not Worth A Sioux

Published on 11 Oct 2007 at 8:39 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under academia.

Lofty principles re noble savages compromised for cold cash. CQ: 

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Racism Decried

Published on 10 Oct 2007 at 9:49 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under Islam, academia.

By liars.  GWU Hatchet offers up excuses of seven lefty students who posted bogus fliers vs. David Horowitz’s Islamo-Fascism Week.  

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Uh Oh

Published on 26 Sep 2007 at 9:41 am. 13 Comments.
Filed under Iran, academia.

Looks like Bollinger is in for the Larry Summers treatment. NY Sun: 

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Persian Sockpuppets?

Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 10:21 am. 14 Comments.
Filed under Iran, academia.

OK, here we go. Fars: Iranian university presidents ask Bollinger 10 questions, some of which are actually germane to the situation: 

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Learning Moment

Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 8:41 am. 12 Comments.
Filed under Iran, academia.

Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger just set a new academic standard. The university as a moral force, a leader in struggles for peace, freedom and justice. Here’s Bollinger’s speech, an exercise in stark clarity. Bollinger’s bio suggests this might be a bold new course for him.* So maybe he is shining a light, as academics are supposed to do, […]

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More Like This

Published on 24 Sep 2007 at 10:56 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Iran, academia.

I thought they wanted to have an academic debate with Ahmadinejad.  You know, like they wanted to have with Hitler. If I knew they were going to mock A’jad and insult A’jad, and wipe the smirk of A’jad’s mug, I might have taken an entirely different view of this Columbia thing.  

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Hitler OK!

Published on 23 Sep 2007 at 8:38 am. 10 Comments.
Filed under Iran, academia.

Says Columbia dean.  Insane mass murderer would be welcome to speak in august halls of learning.  

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Bush = Napoleon

Published on 2 Aug 2007 at 11:40 pm. 20 Comments.
Filed under history, academia.

Here, for your reading pleasure, is one of those truly idiotic essays that demonstrates how accomplished academics with clever ideas about how current events compare to their particular historic specialty can be utterly ignorant of the realities of the present, which of course calls into question how well they possibly can understand the realities of the past.
Columbia U. dolt Richard […]

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Wounded Heel

Published on 25 Jul 2007 at 7:21 am. 13 Comments.
Filed under shameless self-promotion, punishment, academia.

The best part about this is that he’ll be back.  The best part after the firing, that is. The best part after the firing and the drums, that is.  I like the drums.
Ward Churchill canned for plagiarism, making up history, may not teach at University of Colorado for as long as the grass grows, the buffalo roam […]

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“Sheer Twaddle”

Published on 18 Jun 2007 at 10:28 am. 14 Comments.
Filed under pols, GWOT, academia.

Bacevich: Those who in the absence of serious strategic analysis reflexively posture about the need for more troops deserve only contempt.
Crittenden, contemptibly:  Those who in the absence of more troops reflexively posture about the need for serious strategic analysis are nuts.  

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The Oxford Medievalist

Published on 15 Jun 2007 at 8:45 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under blogs, academia.

… just called me “incomparable.”  Never been called incomparable by an Oxford medievalist before.  Go take his poll on “Which figure had the greatest influence on Western civilization.”  It’s a stumper.    

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Go Down Surrendering

Published on 12 Jun 2007 at 11:26 pm. 6 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, academia.

“Losing hurts more than winning feels good.” Christopher J. Fettweis of the U.S. Naval War College is clearly on the side that lately, is accustomed to losing, all about the losing and eager to lose more.  But if it hurts so bad, not sure what the rush is to lose more.   

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