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Maybe an extra week would have been a good idea?
Judson Cox continues to show that his decision to drop out of college early probably wasn’t for the best:
No college professor, with multiple degrees, tenure and a shelf full of books bearing his name, ever made a contribution to humanity greater than a single one of our soldiers.
Hmm, how shall we say… Sadly, No!:
After graduation from Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) and the University of Virginia Law School, Wilson earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and entered upon an academic career. [...]
Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902. [...]
Wilson maneuvered through Congress three major pieces of legislation. The first was a lower tariff, the Underwood Act; attached to the measure was a graduated Federal income tax. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed. In 1914 antitrust legislation established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices.
Another burst of legislation followed in 1916. One new law prohibited child labor; another limited railroad workers to an eight-hour day. By virtue of this legislation and the slogan “he kept us out of war,” Wilson narrowly won re-election.
But after the election Wilson concluded that America could not remain neutral in the World War. On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
We’d add, just for fun, that it wouldn’t take someone very long to come up with a very long list of ideas, policies and inventions that can be attributed to university professors. (Nor would anyone besides Judson miss the obvious fact that a great many conservatives have taught at universities across the country. Oh yeah, her too.)
merl said,
September 18, 2004 at 14:12
So, was Rice a professor of incompetence? And what school was Judson too stupid to attend? And most important, when is his enlistment date?
Mephisto said,
September 18, 2004 at 14:31
We’d add, just for fun, that it wouldn’t take someone very long to come up with a very long list of ideas, policies and inventions that can be attributed to university professors.
Yeah? Well, Judson’s soldier has a personalized bullet for every one of them! Let’s see them smarty-pants perfessers win a debate with a machine gun! Bwahahaha!
Constantine said,
September 18, 2004 at 15:31
Cox has a pretty insulting attitude towards the vocation of teaching. I mean, who does he think educated the soldiers, not to mention the politicians that sent them to war? Who does he think was responsible for instilling the character in the soldiers?
Wow. Some people just don’t value education.
Riggsveda said,
September 18, 2004 at 17:25
I’m guessing Albert Schweitzer and Jonas Salk, who both held posts at universities, must have also made lesser contributions to humanity than Lynddie England, eh?
Donna said,
September 18, 2004 at 17:27
Isn’t it time for a new gmail post? Watching tps12 figuratively flailing wildly, spitting, and swearing a blue streak would make it all worthwhile. And besides, I still have 5 invites to share with SN! visitors…
poop ruiz said,
September 18, 2004 at 18:09
Guys, guys, I might be wrong, but I think the mighty Judson probably doesn’t sincerely believe that. It’s just a conservative piety. The sort of thing wingnuts are supposed to believe even though they aren’t true. Like Republicans believe in freedom. Liberals can’t deal with enemy nations without appeasement. etc. etc.
And adding to your list of academics who’ve changed the world- correct me if I’m wrong, but the Manhattan Project was executed and peopled primarily by academics. The building of the bomb was kind of important, I think.
Anonymous said,
September 18, 2004 at 19:15
No, the Manhattan Project was executed by soldiers.
Maureen said,
September 18, 2004 at 21:05
Really? I didn’t know J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi were in the military! And Lise Meitner? Which army was she in?
Riggsveda said,
September 18, 2004 at 22:18
There’s a difference between conception (creation), and execution (putting into action). All the Oppenheimers in the world couldn’t have dropped those bombs, unless they were also pilots, navigators and bombardiers.
fobyoc said,
September 18, 2004 at 22:21
Manhattan Project? Contribution to humanity?
How about Banting and Best. They saved my life.
piotr said,
September 19, 2004 at 1:54
“…. contribution to humanity…”
One can heap various accolades on soldiers, but “contribution to humanity” is risky. Typically, soldiers do not fight for humanity but for their country (assuming that they do fight at all), a subtle but an important distiction. Things important to us (assuming that they are important) do not have to be important to the humanity as the whole.
Consider contribution to humanity of our Marines who lately rather forcibly escorted out of Haiti a democratically elected president to allow a weakly contested reign of death squads to take over. Aristides was not a saint, but replacing him with genocidaires was a dubious contribution to humanity. Perhaps it represented interests of USA, indeed few Americans complained.
By the way, what is the conclusion of Wilson’s story? Did the soldiers that he sent to Europe contribute to humanity or not? If they did, then so did he, and vice versa, isn’t it?
s.z. said,
September 19, 2004 at 5:26
Judson is understandably upset bitter because his latest college turned out to be terrorist traitor one, as demonstrated by the fact that they are going to show “Farenheit 9/11.” Presumably, when he informed the administration that they were all in league with Hezbollah and bin Laden and stuff and they didn’t thank him for pointing this out to them, he suddenly realized that education is a crock, and that serving in the infantry is where it at.
However, if he doesn’t follow up his discovery with enlistment, then the terrorists have won.
Frederick said,
September 19, 2004 at 8:06
Gad, I’m so senile — I initially posted this comment to the wrong post:
I don’t know whatever motivated young Judson to study at such a bastion of pinko-hood as Lees-McRae College in North Carolina. No wonder he became disgusted at such an ultra-left institution.
CMike said,
September 19, 2004 at 8:16
No college professor, with multiple degrees, tenure and a shelf full of books bearing his name, ever made a contribution to humanity greater than a single one of our soldiers.
Surely the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, elected in 1669, must have surpassed the contribution to humanity of at least one dishonorably discharged US Army private. “Nature and nature’s law lay hid in night; God said let Newton be! and all was light.” Let’s see; calculus, universal law of gravitation, optics and thermodynamics.
When exactly, do you suppose, we can expect the occurrences of Mr. Cox’s enlistment as a soldier and his own upcoming surpassing contribution to humanity?
glenstonecottage said,
September 20, 2004 at 10:29
Yeah, CMike, although we’re forever hearing wingnuts like Judson and Amber declaring their passionate devotion to righteous war and the military, by an odd conincidence, they never seem to be around when any bullets are being fired in anger. (Now who does THAT remind you of?)
Taking Judson at his word, I guess he also doesn’t think too much of rightwing academics like Henry Kissinger, Robert Bork, Leo Strauss, Milton Friedman and Theodore von Hayek?
Chris Vosburg said,
September 21, 2004 at 19:56
No college professor, with multiple degrees, tenure and a shelf full of books bearing his name, ever made a contribution to humanity greater than a single one of our soldiers.
Yeah, like that big stupid phony, Albert Einstein.
Chris Vosburg said,
September 21, 2004 at 21:03
And another thing, Sonny:
Since Judson seems to feel that fighting a war is the be-all and end-all of serving humanity, permit me to also put forth the wizard of Bletchley Park: Alan Turing.
His work in cryptanalysis at Bletchley during WW2, and especially his “bombe” machine– created to aid in deciphering the supposedly unbreakable “Enigma” coded messages used by the German forces– is legendary, and decisive in the defeat of those naughty little Nazis.
Moreover, Turing is generally regarded to be one of the fathers of the modern computer, a wonderful machine which enables jackasses like Judson with more bandwidth than brains to compose and distribute tiresome screeds to the world about, among other things, the destructive nature and supposed moral crime of homosexuality.
Which of course, is what makes Turing doubly relevant to Judson’s deeply abiding stupidity, because Alan Turing was, of course, gay as a tree fulla parrots, and had the misfortune to be such at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Britain.
Turing was arrested and charged as such in 1952, but agreed, in lieu of a jail sentence, to accept a series of experimental hormone injections, designed to “cure” him.
Turing grew depressed. Turing also grew breasts. He took his own life shortly thereafter.
On behalf of poor Alan Turing, then, who was too polite in life to ever say something like this(thankfully I’m not!):
Hey, Judson, ya little shit: Fuck you.
Babel said,
October 3, 2004 at 1:11
I could not say to my friends, when and if they return from Iraq and Afghanistan, “while you were fighting for our freedom and safety, I was funding our enemies.”
So I take it he doesn’t own a car, and especially not an SUV, eh?