Old Titties and Other Things of Note

Well, this post title ought to do wonders for my google hits... but let's get on with it.

Via Gerard, we find Zombie still monitoring…and recording (for posterity!)…the Lib-Left-Craziness that infects the Greater San Francisco Bay Area Soviet Socialist Republic. This time Zombie was on hand to record, in photo essay form, the joint Breasts Not Bombs/Code Pink protest at a Hillary Clinton campaign function. The link is NOT work safe, assuming your workplace would rather you be doing…um…productive work, rather than looking at titties that are (to be more than polite) well past their prime. That, Gentle Reader, is my understatement of the day. Other than to say Zombie is a brave man, indeed. (Assuming he’s male; I don’t know his/her gender).

What would we do without eggheads? Here’s “Why do people have sex? Researchers explore 237 reasons.” Federally funded research, no doubt, but there’s an outside chance certain pharmaceutical corporations might have been involved. The article is short but includes the following:

“Why people have sex is extremely important, but rarely studied,” Buss said. “Surprisingly, many scientists assume the answer is obvious, but people have different reasons for having sex, some of which are rather complex.”

Well, I don’t think “why people have sex is extremely important,” in the general scheme of things. But Hey! If the research keeps these types off the streets and out of our classrooms where they can corrupt The Children, it’s OK with me. I think. I also think the answer to the question IS obvious, but what do I know?

Update at 1500 hrs: The NYT has a better and more extensive article on this subject here.

And speaking of The Academy… (I was, in a way) there’s this article in the NY Post, via Ed Driscoll: “Wages of Ward: Academy Exposed.”

Despite the mountain of evidence against Churchill, it took more than two years for the wheels of justice to turn. As he received more due process than ordinary Americans ever receive in the course of their professional lives, Churchill's dogged fight to keep his job only reinforced for many the notion that faculty members view themselves as a breed apart - entitled to lucrative lifetime employment no matter what they do.

That will be Ward Churchill's lasting legacy. He was the tipping point. Now, it's not just leading conservatives who view the academy as an out-of-control, disconnected bastion of petulant entitlement. In a recent Zogby poll, 58 percent of Americans reported that they now believe that political bias of professors is a "serious problem." Even more, 65 percent, viewed non-tenured professors as more motivated to do a good job in the classroom.

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The academic left decries the "chilling effect" of Churchill's firing, but the only individuals who should feel "chilled" are those professors publicly spewing deranged invective at that same time that they conceal a professional past rife with fraud and abuse. In reality, there was no chilling effect in Churchill's case - only a cleansing effect as higher education scrubbed itself of the man who, more than anyone else, proved that something is very wrong with our universities.

Dark cloud, silver lining and all that. In any event, this might just be some of the best news I’ve heard lately. And I’ve read anecdotal evidence that some alumni are sending scathing letters of condemnation about academic bias in response to the annual Ol’ Ivy Fundraising Letter, in lieu of checks. More good news, that. Money, or in this case, the lack of same, always gets people’s attention.

Today’s Pic: I stayed in a lot of RV parks during my time on the road and, once in a great while, some “unimproved” locations. Today’s pic is of the camp site where I stayed overnight while visiting Fort Robinson State Park, NE. No electric, no water…just a bucolic place to park the ol’ RV. And it was wonderful, Gentle Reader. I could do that sort of thing in small doses, and it was fun. In small doses.

Fort Robinson, NE. May, 2000.