Comments on: You Can’t Stonewall Without A Grabar

By: Marq

Marq — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:59:20 +0000

Oh.
See?
Ya just shoulda dropped in an introductory paragraph, just in case some of us were not so well read as to have perused Clown Central Station before.
You could just as easily have been, say, Gavin under a new nic. Your writing style isn’t dissimilar to his. The bit in my post about “whistling tunelessly…” was something of a paraphrase of something Gav wrote some time ago, a bit he re-uses from time to time. IOW, it was a bit of ~~plagiarism~~ a guess.
Well, welcome on board. Didn’t mean to give you a hard time.

By: M. Bouffant

M. Bouffant — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:55:39 +0000

Great Gobs of Goo!!! For those of you sent to Seventh Heaven by the “naughty insouciance” of Our Lady of the Concentration Camps, proceed directly to hotair.com & wallow in the wonder of Michelle Mabuhay Malkin in FULL CHEERLEADER DRAG jumping up & down cheering the “Defeatocrats!!!” (Typing w/ my nose as BOTH hands are busy elsewhere…one of them’s cleaning up the urp…)

By: g

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:34:07 +0000

Mary Grabar
Title: Temporary Assistant Professor of English
Department: Language & Literature

Wow. Maybe that’s the way Academic Personnel does things at Clayton State, but as far as I can tell, Temporary Assistant Professor is another way of saying “Part Time Lecturer”.

Hardly a tenure track position. I think community college district appointments lie in Mary’s future.

And – is it just me, but does the opening sequence of the novel remind me of the character of Lana Lee in “Confederacy of Dunces” posing for erotic photos with Ignatius’s copy of Boethius and a globe?

By: Ms. Clio

Ms. Clio — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:46:44 +0000

She is simply an atrocious writer. I am appalled that any academic institution of any size hired her to teach anyone else how to read, think, or write, when there must have been 100 better-qualified candidates. And I have to wonder why she isn't blogging it furiously about this. [crosisng my fingers on making the link]

By: tps12

tps12 — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:56:00 +0000

I kind of like that first chapter. It actually reads like a parody of a satirical portrayal of the evils of academia. The first scene is of an academic feminist researching for her investigation of sex work (a chapter on teacher crushes) by performing at a strip club in a “costume” consisting of her regular lecturing clothes. Which is really not such a long way from an academic researching the world of right wing punditry (and in particular the subgenre of moderately attractive crypto-fascist pinup girls) by writing columns railing against atheism. Just saying.

By: Melvis

Melvis — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:02:22 +0000

This is the funniest post this side of Jesus’ General. Thanks for the laugh!

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:56:05 +0000

For obvious reasons, involving pots and kettles, I am loath to call into question either Grabar's qualification or her intelligence. For me, it is enough to ridicule her on aesthetic grounds (she writes as if entering the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest), and for losing contact with consensus reality whenever she begins to think about the topics of atheism and secular humanism. There is always the possibility that she will recover from both of these afflictions.

By: les

les — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:55:59 +0000

Is it just me, or is every paragraph on the grabar’s home page (yes, I went, it’s Michael’s fault) suffused with paranoia? On her own shit, she can’t even talk without announcing she’s a persecuted little victim. On the other hand, I suppose it’s better for her self-image to imagine she gets dissed because of conservatism, rather than more accurately blaming her inane stupidity.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:34:29 +0000

Okay, I think Tucker Carlson’s hot.

By: Smiling Mortician

Smiling Mortician — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:01:21 +0000

at least round these parts, the men will give a woman a fair chance to demonstrate sheâ€™s an equal

Billy, you know I love ya. But I have to ask: Why is it that the men round these parts get to give the women a chance to demonstrate their equality? I mean, gosh, that’s mighty white of them and all, but it seems to me that if the menfolk are in a position to give the womenfolk a shot at equality, then there’s the presumption of an inherent inequality . . .

[/seriousness]

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:29:29 +0000

But uh-oh, what's this? A Master of Arts in Liberal Studies? Hmm...

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:27:14 +0000

May 2004 The Board of Regents approves Clayton Stateâ€™s B.A. degree in English.

They just graduated their first English B.A.’s in 2006. Looks like Mary found a ground-floor opportunity.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:21:33 +0000

Clayton State University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern La., Decatur, GA 30033-4097: Telephone 404-679-4501) to award associate and bachelorâ€™s degrees.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:19:30 +0000

bl0ndej0n: can we at least discuss the fuckability of various male conservatives?

Hmm… someone have a link to just about anything on written on this site about Ben Shapiro?

By: jon

jon — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:08:54 +0000

Too good to be true!!!
But how will she handle the internal conflicts when they offer tenure?

Mary Grabar
Title: Temporary Assistant Professor of English
Department: Language & Literature
Telephone Number: (678)-466-4746
Office: MUS-226
E-mail: MaryGrabar@clayton.edu
Web Page: http://a-s.clayton.edu/grabar/homepage.htm

By: billy pilgrim

billy pilgrim — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:57:09 +0000

The fuckability of conservative candidates is certainly a topic ripe for a snarking…

It’s just that they’re all gonna score in teh deep negative numbers on that one.

Just for the record: ewwww.

By: turgid member

turgid member — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:46:59 +0000

Not bad…

But she’s no Kaye Grogan.

Renew America is totally babelicious. I feel like a spy in the house of love.

By: Simba B.

Simba B. — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:40:18 +0000

An up-and-coming feminist professor of rhetoric who conducts research by stripping at the Classic City gentlemen’s club, Tight Ends. The sexual revolutionist/moving company entrepreneur who takes his disco dance moves to the contra/Cajun dance circuit. A romantic cowboy who loves literature and his ex-fiancee. His director at the University of Athens, one of the last of the old guard, who takes his stand in the classroom for God, country, family, and the power of poetry. This is the first chapter of my novel looking for an agent and/or publisher.

What is it with wingnuts and dirty novels?

By: S. T. D. Hanson

S. T. D. Hanson — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:36:25 +0000

Sadlynauts!

Sadly-Nopolitans

By: bemused

bemused — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:35:39 +0000

As one who confessed to throwing up in my mouth over Mary Grabar, let me say that I am equally nauseous thinking about Glenn Reynolds gettin’ busy. And yes, I find that much of my critique of said pathetic, sad callow fellows stems from their perceived inability to pound their pathetic members into anything approaching a state of arousal.

In fact, I think it a fundamental tenet of modern conservatism — male, female and whatever gender Ann Coulter is — to be enraged that everyone else is getting laid and I’M NOT, GODDAMNIT.

So yes, I plead guilty to looksism wrt Mary Grabar, but hey, it is decidedly not a gender thing.