Tuesday, July 31, 2007

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.

5 comments:

  1. That's how we usually go RVing: no water, no electricity hookups (luckily, we have the generator for when I need the curling iron). The place we do that is north of Mora on my hubby's dad/uncles/aunts land. About 150 of us do that for a family reunion every Labor Day. Very peaceful (well, except for the 140 other people there).

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  2. That's how we usually go RVing: no water...

    So y'all are boondockers, eh? Back when the RV was new and the genset still worked I could do that, and as I said, I did it occasionally. I wouldn't even consider it now...or not until I get a new carb for the generator, anyway. Coffee, ya know... ;-)

    There's a lot to be said for boondocking, especially considering the state of the usual "cheek to jowl" parking/crowding at a lot of RV parks...

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  3. Ya know, they make coffee pots just for campfires. No electricity required. LOL!

    Actually, last time we went to Mora, we invited some friends that just got their first camper. And the wife needed her coffee, but they had no generator. So, they hooked up to ours. Those coffee pots really take alot of juice! You could tell the moment it got done making the stuff.

    Glad I don't drink coffee. I just need a Coke in the morning to get me started. One habit instead of the other, I suppose.

    I'll tell ya what, though. Hubby and I have decided that if we ever want to leave farming and this area, we are going to go start an RV park. Lots of money to be had in that business, we thinks. Especially with all you baby boomers retiring.

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  4. Ya know, they make coffee pots just for campfires. No electricity required. LOL!

    I'm not to be trusted with complex tasks... I don't even trust myself in that space ... before I'm fully caffeinated. And that includes anything and everything having to do with fire. Back in the day when camping meant a two-man tent and a small collection of Coleman appliances (lantern, stove, etc.), TSMP rolled out about a half hour before me, made the coffee, then woke me up. I'm not as inclined to "rough it" these days, especially considering I have to do all that stuff by-my-ownself.

    And yeah...I think there's money in RV parks, too. Unless gas prices take off further into the stratosphere...which they just might. Seven miles to the gallon and three-dollar (and up) gas tends to limit the amount of touring one does...

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  5. Yikes! Your rig just gets 7miles/gallon? My Powerstroke gets 11 hauling the camper, 19 not. I trying, though, to figure out the reasoning why diesel down in Texas was $2.70 or less, and here is still $2.99. I miss the days (uh, 5 years ago), when we could get farm diesel for .60/gallon.

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