PS: Read this and tell me I'm wrong:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m49585&hd=&size=1&l=e
Or tell me the American equivalents.
I still think that throwing shoes is a bigger insult among Arabs than in the USA.
I despise Ig. For the reasons given above, and because sometime in the last two years he gave us an excuse for his support of the war that he had forgotten as an academic that ideas have consequences. So add to his sins that he has betrayed his profession, by making his fault the responsibility of academia as such. Don't forget that this guy has spent almost his entire adult life in other countries. What does he know about the Canada of today? Canadian undergraduates hardly recognize the country that existed before 1980 as being their own. And these are history majors.
Idea for a New Year's project: bloggers make lists of people who have demonstrated bad faith and idiocy in political, economic and cultural commentary over the past 8 years. Readers could use their favorite bloggers' lists as a guide to the irredemiable; and someone could compile the results for a more general purpose guide.
How about medieval historians who started as sf fans?
I don't know if anyone will read this...but
A number of years ago a study showed that the number of accidental deaths in the province of Ontario had dropped something like 26% during the 90s because:
people wear seatbelts
cars are built better
people on recreational vehicles wear helmets
Me, I've been wearing belts for half a century. My dad installed them himself.
And my life was saved once when my driver, slipping on an icy road, was able to find the brakes.
Doesn't anyone here remember the Who song from the 60s, "substitute":
"I see right through your plastic mac,
I look all white but my dad was black"
Or the other way around.
That NJ fine is trivial. They should get serious.
Late in the thread and possibly irrelevant, but if I had a great big blog like Billmon's or this one, I'd have no hesitation about shaping the discussion by eliminating irrelevant posts. I wouldn't wait for offensive. Of course that might kill the flow.
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