Breaking Bad
Erick Erickson, RedState:
BREAKING: We Have Elena Kagan’s College ThesisThis proves Elena Kagan is an open and avowed socialist. The woman declares that socialists must stick together instead of fracture in order to advance a socialist agenda, which Kagan advocates. 1
Is that a footnote? It is one! It’s a footnote that takes you about two inches down the page, like the water slide for little kids at Action Park. You know, we invented those.1
A footnote. This is like having Erickson’s college thesis, if there were any such requirement over at John Birch University.2
You can see for yourself right here (PDF).3 Keep in mind that Kagan wrote her thesis at the height of the cold war praising a group that collaborated with our enemies
Collaborated, corroborated; comporting, cavorting; breach, broach; stanch, staunch — inconceivable.
Here, courtesy of Doug “Not Frank” Ross are the worst, indeed the socialest passages from Kagan’s college thesis, which also positively identify her as ‘a radical.’
We learn as well from Ross that she’s a ‘crypto-Marxist,’ as if writing a whole, entire thesis about the collapse of the Socialist Party of the early 20th Century wouldn’t ordinarily clear up some of the possibilities, Marxwise. Isn’t she, like, the open and avowed socialist and radical kind?
If not, then chillingly, the answer may reside here…or even here.
- I’m getting blowback on this statement. When you couple Kagan’s thesis with her op-eds in the 80’s and her later work, I think it is a complete and fair statement. Look at the forest, not the trees.
There is unrest in the forest. There is trouble with the trees.
1 Not water slides.
2 Mercer University, where Erickson got his ever-confounding BA in Political Science and History as well as his equally gob-dropping and/or jaw-smacking law degree, lists Birch among its notable alumni under ‘Other Public Service.’ Honorary alum Robert E. Lee (1866!?) is right up top with Nancy Grace under ‘Arts, Education, Media, and Industry’ rather than languishing under ‘Military’ like some run-of-the-mill general or army guy. Also listed: civil-rights opponent Jay Sekulow, HUAC chair John S. Wood.
3 Now no longer breaking, but broken, and reading:
You can see for yourself right here (PDF).PULLED AT THE REQUEST OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXERCISING ITS COPYRIGHT RIGHTS.”
SONG: “Copyright Rights,” sung by Erick “Son” Erickson and the Righty-Whities.
Tintin adds: EXCLUSIVE! We have found Erick Erickson’s senior thesis at Mercer University
If footnotes are like water-slides, then where are the typographical equivalents of ladders? Huh? The time is ripe for headnotes.
Collaborated, corroborated; comporting, cavorting; breach, broach; stanch, staunch — inconceivable.
Ahhh. Were we ever so young?
Hang on…is there a “BREAKING!” disease all over wingnuttia?
Breaking? Irky, FOX NEWS had the thesis TWO DAYS ago and published an article: Elena Kagan’s No Liberal
[Faulty blockquote fixed]
I’m getting blowback on this statement
Um, Irky? Can you describe for me, please, what it’s like to be in front of the fan when the shit hits it?
GAV! It’s been updated!
Oh, there it is again! “The woman declares…”
PULLED AT THE REQUEST OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXERCISING ITS COPYRIGHT RIGHTS.
I was wondering about that…dipshit.
I was wondering about that…dipshit.
Of course, now he’ll claim liberal conspiracy et al.
I would be surprised that wingnuts think that writing about the history of socialism means you’re a socialist, but wingnuts have already shown that they think that knowing about something means you support it. Hence the handwringing over “teaching” kids homosexuality.
wingnuts have already shown that they think that knowing about something means you support it
So then Historian Glenn Beck really IS a Nazi?
Of course, now he’ll claim liberal conspiracy et al.
LOL to the idea that laws protecting the academic publishing industry are “liberal.”
[scurrying]
Please, somebody stop me from reading the comments.
COPYRIGHT RIGHTS
TO THEIR COPY. Their copyright copy rights.
Oddly, this is the first time I’ve heard the phrase “college thesis.”
Maybe I’ve been in grad school too long.
Don’t do it. They always make me lose hope for humanity. You don’t want none o’ that shit, Dewey.
Hey, that Doug Ross link is teh awesome for this phrase that I never would have thought could occur in nature: “The invaluable Erick Erickson.” It’s like he used the syntactic equivalent of the Hadron Collider to create a phrase so unlikely and so exotic that you couldn’t even imagine its existence.
1.I’m getting blowback on this statement. When you couple Kagan’s thesis with her op-eds in the 80’s and her later work, I think it is a complete and fair statement. Look at the forest, not the trees.
Look at the forest, which has no trees. Miss Erickson, you’ve never had “blowback”. That’s probably the single largest contributing factor to you being possibly the most rotten, disgusting piece of wormy shit in the whole universe. And that includes those Empire guys.
You don’t want none o’ that shit, Dewey.
Don’t tell my husband, but that’s my new favorite nickname.
I wrote a paper for my comps about digital libraries a few weeks ago…does that mean I’m a digital library? How could this beeee?
Wonderful song, The Trees. And as for Kagan being a socialist – would that she were. I don’t believe there’s a single socialist in the entire United States government (it’s getting hard enough just to find an honest to God liberal).
The time is ripe for headnotes.
Corduroy pillows give you headlines, D-KW’s mom gives you head cheese, chasing mangoes gives you head-desk …I’m not sure how to get head notes.
There’s a human centipede hiding behind comment #12.
As per Erickson’s correction, added a footnote and a musical number.
You don’t want none o’ that shit, Dewey.
Hm. VS¹ calling T&U “Dewey”…interesting.
¹VLingerieR
There’s a human centipede hiding behind comment #12.
Bad, bad, bad sir or madam!
There’s a human centipede hiding behind comment #12.
Phew. Thanks.
It’s like he used the syntactic equivalent of the Hadron Collider to create a phrase so unlikely and so exotic that you couldn’t even imagine its existence.
With any luck, like the Higgs Boson, it will reach back in time and strangle Ross, thus preventing its creation.
I’m not sure how to get head notes.
Really?
You’ve never heard of a facePalmPilot?
So then Historian Glenn Beck really IS a Nazi?
No, He has Nazi Tourettes
I don’t believe there’s a single socialist in the entire United States government
Bernie Sanders, God bless him.
What’s more, she’s conspiring with me behind her husband’s back. *
*Sadly, No: After Hours
I’m not sure how to get head notes.
Google informs me that every note has a head. A semibreve is an empty notehead.
A semibreve is an empty notehead.
That’s a new name for DKW’s mom.
Gah — fixed missing blockquote again.
Google informs me that every note has a head. A semibreve is an empty notehead.
I hope Google delivered that musically, singing-telegram style.
This proves Elena Kagan is an open and avowed socialist.
This was my first encounter with the concept of “open avowals” that are so open that they need to be proven with clever exegeses and looking-at-forests.
This was my first encounter with the concept of “open avowals”
You may be more familiar with the term “low vowels.”
So based on an interpretation of a post-graduate thesis Kagan wrote FORTY YEARS AGO, plus an interpretation of some thoughts that she jotted down TWENTY YEARS AGO, Elena Kagan is a socialist.
Now, let’s say he’s right, that those documents should be interpreted in this fashion.
What was it he said again when he was hired by CNN with regards to his blogposts of just these past few years?
You may be more familiar with the term “low vowels.”
Or low jowls.
I find it hilarious that these assholes dig up shit people wrote during their undergrad years to “prove” who they really are. I mean, she’s 50, right? I have stuff that I wrote 5 years ago as an undergrad* that I would probably disagree with now, much less 25 years from now.
*Don’t judge me for taking an extra two years!
This was my first encounter with the concept of “open avowals” that are so open that they need to be proven with clever exegeses and looking-at-forests.
See, you learn something every time you scorch your brain by subjecting it to writing by stupid assholes.
Or low jowls.
Another pet name for DKW’s moms?
*Don’t judge me for taking an extra two years!
I won’t.
Took me 16 years, but then I had my companies pay for it, so I could relax, take my time, get married, have a kid, get divorced, appear in some movies, bum around, work on a beach, sleep with beautiful women and wrestle alligators, all in my spare time.
Thank you, Tampax!
*Don’t judge me for taking an extra two years!
I don’t judge, it took me six years to graduate with my two (largely useless) degrees.
Or low jowls.
Another pet name for DKW’s moms?
Oh yes!
Altho there was that one time when she had a GI infection…
I have stuff that I wrote 5 years ago as an undergrad* that I would probably disagree with now, much less 25 years from now.
A class notebook with Mrs. Truculent Scalia written in glitter pen?
Geza X…. man, I loved that “Let Them Eat Jellybeans” album.
See, you learn something every time you scorch your brain by subjecting it to writing by stupid assholes.
Wait, are you saying there’s a way to avoid this scorching sensation?
A class notebook with Mrs. Truculent Scalia written in glitter pen?
Why are you so MEAN to me?
Be honest. Are you this guy?
OK, I got off the boat.
This:
is their “evidence” that she is a self-avowed socialist. In comments, their brightest, um… “minds” … explicitly interpret the third person “those who” as a first person, “me who.”
Weaksauce.
By this standard, not only is David Horowitz Joseph Stalin, but Joseph Stalin was a priest. Also, Tori Amos totally ruled synth pop.
Be honest. Are you this guy?
No.
But hee ees mah fasser.
I find it hilarious that these assholes dig up shit people wrote during their undergrad years to “prove” who they really are. I mean, she’s 50, right? I have stuff that I wrote 5 years ago as an undergrad* that I would probably disagree with now, much less 25 years from now.
*Don’t judge me for taking an extra two years!
Epiphany! Wingnuts are afraid of the writings that ideological college students make for two reasons:
1) They never develop to that stage of looking the world through anything other than their own egocentric prejudices and the assumption that their worldview is correct and all others are flawed.
and 2) Given that they fail to develop past the age of Beavis and Butthead, they assume that no one else has either (see note 1). So when they read a 25 year old thesis, they assume they are looking into that person’s soul at this moment. OMFG–avowed socalits!
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXERCISING ITS COPYRIGHT RIGHTS.
Damned librul elites. PROPERTY IS THEFT! No, wait, that’s not right. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS THEFT! Hang on, that’s not what I meant. Oh, you libs and your clever words! COPYRIGHT IS THE HAMMER OF THE NEW CORPORATE RULING CLASS! Aw hell, lemme go think about this…
Wait, are you saying there’s a way to avoid this scorching sensation?
Yes, wingnuts for tsam’s ovens. But that presents a few other minor problems.
Funny; it’s looking pretty damn vivacious over in Europe.
Yes. Stop having sex with DKW’s mom.
Oh, there it is again! “The woman declares…”
She sounds uppity. Don’t women understand how they diminish themselves by making assertions and stuff? I swear, if she spent as much time fixing herself up as she does trying to talk like a man, she would have found a man by now.
So being a shill for Monsanto makes you a socialist? Hmmm.
Maybe Obama should withdraw the Kagan nomination and nominate Angela Davis instead.
Why are you so MEAN to me?
Birds gotta fly, Kaus gotta blow goats, fish gotta swim…
It’s just the net. I’m a teddy bear in real life.
And today’s WINNER!:
Oh shit. I think N_B just came out to us a furry.
Gavin how do you folks keep reading this stuff without wanting to drive a nail thorough your brains? Just reading one a day makes me want to retch.
Athankyou.Thankyouvermuch.
If I lived in a city where a man spent his time thrashing criminals whilst dressed as a giant naked mole-rat, I would never even jaywalk again.
vacuumslayer said,
May 14, 2010 at 23:11
It’s just the net. I’m a teddy bear in real life.
Oh shit. I think N_B just came out to us a furry.
Damn! You are ON IT today. Smokin’ this motherfucker!
I checked out your page–that art is BRILLIANT. I love it.
Klyde said,
May 14, 2010 at 23:11
Gavin how do you folks keep reading this stuff without wanting to drive a nail thorough your brains? Just reading one a day makes me want to retch.
Gotta be the satisfaction of seeing a bunch of smartalecky bastards pick every bit of rotten flesh from their hollow bones…
tsam, I’m blushing ovah here. Actually it’s probably just the vodka but thank you anyway. Cheers!
Yes. Stop having sex with DKW’s mom.
I was thinking someone would crush that hanging cirve ball–nice job clearing the fence.
Fave piece: “You Never Answered”
Thank you so much.
It’s a little darker (in theme) than I normally like to go, but I was happy with how it came out.
The woman declares that socialists must stick together instead of fracture in order to advance a socialist agenda, which Kagan advocates
might be syntax, might be oatmeal
erik is having him brain be eat by the blancmange
Kagan is to Socialism as a naked mole rat is to:
A) a secretive rich man who hangs out with a young boy while dressed in tights.
b) a chainsaw with gender dysmorphia
c) Kim Possible
d) D-KW’s mom
Speaking of embarrassing college indiscretions, perhaps this is just Irky’s lingering butthurt over evil liberals digging up Bob McDonnell’s Regent U thesis on the folly of giving the weaker sex equal rights.
Erickson went to Mercer University School of Law?
Well, that explains why he’s never had a real job.
Fave piece: “You Never Answered”
Thank you so much.
It’s a little darker (in theme) than I normally like to go, but I was happy with how it came out.
Wait–it’s been replaced by “The Enlightenment”. That says an awful lot in one frame. Well done.
PULLED AT THE REQUEST OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXERCISING ITS COPYRIGHT RIGHTS.”
Um, isn’t copyright law one of those thingies you study in law school? You know, the place you go to become a lawyer?
Trig will best Stephen Hawking today in a debate about a worm-hole time continuum.
Um, isn’t copyright law one of those thingies you study in law school? You know, the place you go to become a lawyer?
Well, since she might be gay and all, and we don’t like terrorists, we should strip her of her citizenship so that she can’t be protected by copyright law. I’m a goddam lawyer, I oughta know.
erik is having him brain be eat by the blancmange
Zombie desserts! GaaaaHHHHHhH!11
Hmmm…gay….stripping..I oughta…
I thnk there might be a website in this.
I wish people wouldn’t call despicable ruling class assholes like Kagan and Obama socialists, it damages the brand.
Mercer University School of Law
may the Lewd have Mercery on him
Hmmm…gay….stripping..I oughta…
I thnk there might be a website in this.
Not sure, but you might be late to the party for this one. I’m sure I could post 25 or 30
favoritesexamples.I wish people wouldn’t call despicable ruling class assholes like Kagan and Obama socialists, it damages the brand.
I know, right? Smacks of this compassionate conservative horseshit.
d) D-KW’s mom
Aw, and after she had all that expensive dental work done.
Yeh but Harvard Law, Jewish, middle-aged, over-acheiving , legally trained, potential Supreme Court Judge – that HAS to be a specialised niche.
..after she had all that expensive dental work done…
Yeh well rubber teeth for the ‘comfort and protection of our valued customers’? What did she expect people to think?
that HAS to be a specialised niche.
But since it exists, Rule 34 has it covered.
If I lived in a city where a man spent his time thrashing criminals whilst dressed as a giant naked mole-rat, I would never even jaywalk again.
His crime-fighting activities would be confined to the subway, so you’d be safe above ground.
That’s my very latest. I’m so pleased you like it…very personal piece.
…rule 34 has it covered…
Curse you 4chan, you’ve beaten me again. Next time..next time (shakes fist)
Meanwhile, on the Intertuba,
Rule 34 DO NOT WANT
That makes me think of K-Lo reminding women that they are not women unless they are making babies.
Aw, and after she had all that expensive dental work done.
Is that what the
kidspatrons are calling it these days?naked mole-rats…
That makes me think of K-Lo
EW EW EW EW!
…but I see the connection.
Yeh well rubber teeth for the ‘comfort and protection of our valued customers’? What did she expect people to think?
Especially when they’re hidden all day by a dental dam?
K-Lo reminding women that they are not women unless they are making babies.
So K-Lo is not, nor ever will be, a woman.
It’s like he used the syntactic equivalent of the Hadron Collider to create a phrase so unlikely and so exotic that you couldn’t even imagine its existence.
That is GORGEOUS. Mmmm.
Gorgeous doesn’t look right…it is, though.
Good point. He’d be a holy terror in Montreal, though.
The combination of Rule 34 and Kathryn Jean Lopez, aside from making me puke, reminds me of her obsession Traci Lords.
Interesting Internettertubes I|tem. Whilst googling for K-Lo and Traci Lords, I discovered that a site called “BabesMuseum” has a National Review tag.
The combination of Rule 34 and Kathryn Jean Lopez, aside from making me puke,
Ah, pukkake.
Weird.
Ah, pukkake.
Zombie nominates for threadwin.
Irky’s sychophants say the darnedest things:
Misogyny and fear of a black planet; it’s a twofer!
Whilst googling for K-Lo and Traci Lords
You are a braver man than I.
Dream on, Captain Chintastic.
CONSPIRACY! CONSPIRACY! WOOOP WOOOP SOUND THE ALARM!
No seriously. Why even pretend to read her thesis to find evidence of socialmaxistlesbianism? I’m sure being nominated by Obama all the proof they need.
Wait, maybe they thought it was Kagan’s FECES and they got all excited because they love the poopies and now they’re acting up cranky because instead of a lovely steaming pile of poo, all they found was a big bunch of words.
Obama operates out of pure anger and revenge. You can see it in his face nearly every time he is on reading a teleprompter.
At first I thought cyntax’s
was the epitome of this thread, but then I witnessed Looch’s K-lo and pukkake stylings. My mind was blown.
By the by, Irky Irksome has a followup post on the subject of heavy-handed liberalfascist censorship, aka. “Irky’s stunning ignorance of copyright law, even when it’s spelled out for him on page two of the document he posted.”
Synopsis of the comments: “You can’t stop the signal, Princeton!”
Obama operates out of pure anger and revenge. You can see it in his face nearly every time he is on reading a teleprompter.
Probably because he knows that puts him at a disadvantage compared with his conservative rivals. After all, the teleprompter only scripts his part of the dialogue. Bush and Palin have the luxury of scripting both ends via the pre-screened questions that have characterized their every visit to, well, everywhere.
Synopsis of the comments: “You can’t stop the signal, Princeton!”
You forgot the “WOLVERINES!1!!!1” part.
Erick bin Erick believes private property rights until someone has property he wants.
^in.
Ppppbbbbffft!
“May 15, 2010 at 3:27
^in.
Ppppbbbbffft!”
Don’t sweat it. I’ve had a severe case of retardfingers all day.
“Irky’s stunning ignorance of copyright law, even when it’s spelled out for him on page two of the document he posted.”
Lawyerin’s hard work, even for the keenest of legal eagles.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
May 15, 2010 at 2:12
Interesting Internettertubes I|tem. Whilst googling for K-Lo and Traci Lords, I discovered that a site called “BabesMuseum” has a National Review tag.
Good Grief!!!!
~
First, there is a book on socialism in the White House library – NOW we learn that a Supreme Court nominee wrote her college thesis on the historical decline of socialism! We are THIS close to acknowledging that such a thing as socialism has ever existed, people!!!
Good Grief!!!!
Flop sweat smells nasty.
Lawyerin’s hard work, even for the keenest of legal eagles.
“Fat, lazy and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” — Erk to Son of Erk.
“LALALALALALALA! I can’t HEAR you!”– Son of Erk to Erk
From the recommended diary list at RedState:
Oh God the naked mole-rats are EVERYWHERE! And they’re unionized!
So based on an interpretation of a post-graduate thesis Kagan wrote FORTY YEARS AGO, plus an interpretation of some thoughts that she jotted down TWENTY YEARS AGO, Elena Kagan is a socialist.
Not just that. Kagan wrote the original thesis 40 years ago about an era 50 years before that and on that basis is clearly an open, avowed, bald-faced, hidden, secret, crypto-Marxist-socialist.
On the other hand, it’s nice to see that the newer models of wingnut are hybrids, running on a combination of Stupid and Crazy, which will help slow the depletion of the world’s Stupid reserves.
Revelations About the SEIU’s Union Mole Inside the White House
Wouldn’t that mean that the White House is generally against the unions?
I’m in the SEIU. We have a mole in the White House?! Cool. That little extra I pay is paying off.
Didn’t know we had moles, but I’ve got an open mind. As long as they aren’t neo-cons.
which will help slow the depletion of the world’s Stupid reserves.
I dunno. This is getting awful close to a “Peak WIngnut” hypothesis.
Peak Pique is never depleted.
Shorter Erick bin Erick: Liberal Jew = COMMIEFASCIST. QED!
Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review at Mount Vernon…
“Our simple message here today is to go forward we must look back. We needn’t, and nothing in this statement does, reinvent the wheel. To go forward we must preserve those constitutional principles that are being highlighted today in the Mount Vernon Statement.”
Tha’ there’s some mighty FINE rightin’! No wonderin’ why she be the editor.
The whole business gets a Hollywood-sign*-sized “meh” from me.
Barring some incident where Kagan scrambles into the hearing room, Kodos-like, on a series of tentacles, she’s going to get confirmed. All the “ZOMG” ain’t nuthin’ but the Wingnuts trying to get a little fund-raising done. Fuck ’em.
*Thanks Hugh Heffner!
Irony Money-Shot: Kagan’s moral regarding the SP would be very salutary to the GOP right about now – but they’re going to completely ignore the obvious in favor of yet more SOP filibuster-ratfuckery … while they plan the auto-da-fe of their upcoming Purification Ritual – Operation Leper 2: Steampunk Boogaloo.
Purge, baby, purge!
…more than a half century after socialism’s decline…
… it’s doing great in South America. D’OHHHHHHH!
The difference you would find is Kagan was probably operated out of a sense of idiotic fantasy whereas Obama operates out of pure anger and revenge.
“How DARE you capitalist-imperialist scum let me rise up from poverty & obscurity to become the most powerful man on Earth, with millions of dollars & multitudes of admirers around the globe! ONE DAY YOU’LL PAY FOR THIS, YOU BASTARDS! I WILL AVENGE MY PHENOMENAL SUCCESS – I SWEAR IT!”
The Lily Ledbetter Act, Healthcare Reform, cancelling Cold War megaprojects, bringing America back to the Big Kids’ Table in international diplomacy, & turning around a truly epic level of economic implosion & job-losses in under two years?
Anger & revenge — Obama fails it.
Shit, when it comes to animus, Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like Ed Anger.
According to Wikipedia, they’re eusocial animals–whereas neo-cons (Pestis coprophagus) are antisocial–so the moles should be okay.
I’m guessing that the parents of most of the Trike Force were firm believers in the virtues of a diet rich in lead paint chips.
Teabaggers: keepin’ it classy.
Has anybody else noticed that Gavin keeps interjecting with reactions to formatting problems? I think Gavin is trying to send us a message. It’s code. I rearranged the letters of “Gah — fixed missing blockquote again” and came up with “A Baa Cede Fogging Squish Milk Tin Ox.” The rest of you, figure out what this means. It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Okay, stop me if you heard this one:
RACE
Corduroy pillows give you headlines, D-KW’s mom gives you head cheese, chasing mangoes gives you head-desk …I’m not sure how to get head notes.
I hope it’s not too late to reply to this… during the golden era of anime fansubs (a few years before and after Y2K) the fansubbers used to preface each episode with a couple of screens about Japanese words or cultural concepts that appeared in the episode to follow. It was cool because you learned a bit and the translator didn’t have to gloss over or mistranslate just so the viewer could keep up.
When it all went commercial (when anime broke out in the mid-2000’s) that ended. (Unless you were on the right #channels to get fansubs before the commercial NA release.)
Ironically, a lot of manga still have preface pages with words and concepts explained. I guess the translators there have more creative freedom than the translators who work for video distributors.
I once went through some special features on an anime series which was so full of inside references than only a bleeds-from-the-nose OTAKU could enjoy it* and found a bitter screed from a translator who was required by his boss to totally destroy a bunch of jokes from the original because it would require explaining some puns by using preface screens. This same distributor also CHANGED THE VIDEO to cover up Japanese writing–on a show that revolved around references to 70’s anime series! I understand why they make changes to shows like Sailor Moon and Pokemon, but seriously. Vandalism.
*-I was lukewarm about it.
So, yeah. Head notes are cool with me. (Wait, that sounds like a fragrance.)
From jim’s link:
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It’s seriously time to turn up the heat on these motherfuckers. Anti-American? I do believe I have just had enough. I have snapped.
Tsam, bro, it’s worse than that. Wingnuts think that a university is an ideology factory. Either they go to a liberal arts college and throw tantrums because nobody agrees with them (they blame it on brainwashing, professors, brainwashing professors, or mysterious character traits in their peers), OR (even more common) they go to bullshit “universities” (somebody last week called them madrassas and they’re not wrong, although they could be insulting madrassas for all I know) such as ORU, BJU, Liberty U, etc, etc where your thesis is nothing more than a long-winded statement of belief, basically a 20-page credo.
To take an extreme example, “Doctor Dino” (who got his “degree” from a
cereal boxtrailer in Cali) wrote a “thesis” in crayon that was basically his standup comedy routine, I mean his skit, no, no, I mean his standard lecture about how God is storing flood waters behind the Great Hoover Dam in the sky.And therefore, also, too, wingnuts project–for this is what wingnuts do–and assume that any college thesis, even when abstracted to the 3rd person, is about the personal, strongly-held beliefs of the person who wrote it.
Even if it’s an anthropological survey of Nepalese goat-herders. LOOK! A HERETIC! BURN HIR!
We have, as a Sadly, No! exclusive, uncovered Erick’s own senior thesis and have added it at the end of the post. If Mercer University tries to make us delete it, we’ll have our New York law firm send them a stern letter.
VS–damn, I never click on people’s names, but tsam convinced me… you are very creative. I think I’ve seen “The Storyteller” before so I guess your art gets around. I like the images that are just plain surreal.
Tintin,
Inspired. I approve.
Btw, remember that MAD Magazine feature about the kid who writes the same paper every year, starting with a 3rd grade “what I did on summer vacation” essay all the way up to Master’s thesis?
Barring some incident where Kagan scrambles into the hearing room, Kodos-like, on a series of tentacles, she’s going to get confirmed.
Something about the concept of “picking battles you can win” still eludes Nimson Rodson. It is almost as if he doesn’t care whether he loses battle after battle and is widely seen by the wider public as Loser McLoser who Loses Things, but rather is concerned only with the pleasure he gets from being agin anything that Obama proposes, as if you can develop an addiction to knee-jerking.
Perhaps there is a niche for him as the poster-boy for Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
I’m guessing that the parents of most of the Trike Force were firm believers in the virtues of a diet rich in lead paint chips
Pica — not just for typography any more!
I am going to stay in the shallow end of the Tidal Wave Pool, Gavin. I think you understand.
Ha ha, I forgot all about Action Park. I always assumed theme parks were forced to check for safety, but I damn near killed myself on the Alpine slide at Action Park. As I remember there was a little stick that you pulled to slow you down, but you would hit these curves faster than you could react and the sled would ride the edge of the track. What a ride! My brother had a nasty scrape on his knee from wiping out on the cement track. I think he still has a scar.
“you can develop an addiction to knee-jerking”
Rule #34?
Oh God…
I Wish I Was Puerto Rican: My Addiction to Reggaeton by Christian Lander
“I immediately stopped listening to my collection of Time Life compilations of music from the 1950s and switched to hip-hop.”
Fortunately there is a happy ending.
Btw, remember that MAD Magazine feature about the kid who writes the same paper every year, starting with a 3rd grade “what I did on summer vacation” essay all the way up to Master’s thesis?
I loved that feature so much that I actually did it myself for about five years! (Had to stop in high school — it was getting a little ridiculous.)
OK, just to snack a bit more on what Erick the Dim, Son* of Erick, inflicted upon our Republic today:
(1) He appropriated property belonging to others, despite his both his “law degree” and his “ideology” telling him this was (a) illegal, and (b) morally wrong;
(2) He quoted from a decades-old essay, after he has himself complained that people actually dare to consider what he wrote a few years ago;
(3) All of this in an effort to stop a nomination which will be confirmed (and, if not, will fail for reasons having nothing to do with his actions today)
Hey, that Doug Ross link is teh awesome for this phrase that I never would have thought could occur in nature: “The invaluable Erick Erickson.” It’s like he used the syntactic equivalent of the Hadron Collider to create a phrase so unlikely and so exotic that you couldn’t even imagine its existence.
It’s more like Erick is a perpetuum mobile generator of self-reinforcing wingnut fucktardery, like solar-powered Penrose tiles which could biologically reproduce by both bodily splitting and sexual recombination of DNA.
(Also, too: Doug Ross may just believe that “invaluable” means “not valuable.” William of Ockham, and all that.)
While I don’t know what our favorite Commissar of The Privatized Police Force of Macon, GA will do next, I predict with great confidence it will demonstrate that Peak Wingnut can never be achieved, much less climbed.
*You see what I did there?
Peak Wingnut can never be achieved, much less climbed.
“Its summit must be inaccessible, but its base accessible to human beings as nature made them. It must be unique and it must exist geographically. The door to the invisible must be visible.”
Oh shit. I think N_B just came out to us a furry.
What makes you think that was a suit?
I hope it’s not too late to reply to this
Not at all. I hope my comprehension of your comment was required.
Omg, guys! Robin Williams posts here!
Thanks very much, not a gator. 🙂
VS, are there faces in the water in “Ophelia was here” or is that just my own paraeidolia*?
*not a VPR
I’ve never noticed faces, but I love the idea that someone would see some in there. “Ophelia Was Here” isn’t really a manipulation so much as a photo I snapped and then dicked around with in Photoshop. But I’ve noticed that my pieces are like a Rorschach test: people see what they want to see. Everyone makes up their own stories…and I love it.
*You see what I did there?
You gave him an epithet? Otherwise, I don’t get it.
And “tensor” is an awesome nym. Though I might just be saying that because I was thinking about vectors and coordinate systems all morning.
Evil scientist thought of the day: someone should teach the wingtards about solving quantum mechanics parts with the complex form of the Šξřøđìñgër’ς* equation. When they get to the part where you just cold toss out the complex roots either their heads will explode, they will devote the rest of their lives to philosophy, they will devote the rest of their lives to philosophy and commit suicide in short order, or they will run away to join a religious order to escape the cruel, cruel Universe.
*-this literally took me 10 minutes
and it was worth it, too
and FYWP, it’s called an ADDENDUM
waiting…waiting…waiting…okay, posting.
(Also, too: Doug Ross may just believe that “invaluable” means “not valuable.” William of Ockham, and all that.)
Well, Latin is awesome like that: words mean exactly the opposite of what you choose them to mean (will apologies to Lewis Carroll).
If someone dug up what I wrote as an undergraduate, I would be revealed as being “really” a conservative.
Sorry about that. I was young, you know.
those trees, those useless trees. they produce the air that i am breathin’.
I once wrote a report on the Libertarian Party in a political science class in community college. I don’t even remember what I said about it, but it would be amusing to see someone try to glean my political views from that. Grasping at straws much?
OMG, a lead type pun AND a reference to Mount Analogue? Smut, I swoon.
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AnalogueFalse Equivalence.I once wrote a report on the Libertarian Party in a political science class in community college.
I mean, bingo. In real college when you write a paper (and that generally includes community college, unless you get into pay for grades fraud, etc–and I’m not excusing 4 yrs to the extent that students there purchase papers, however I’m talking about what the prof will accept, hence, it doesn’t get into who actually wrote it) you are expected to grok the claims/contentions/opinions/philosophy of the subject matter of the paper. You are also expected to raise and consider objections to a particular point of view or assertion, or you may be asked to compare and contrast the opinions/theories of two different authorities.
The bottom line is that you show that you read, understood, and mastered the material by clearly restating their own claims/opinions in your own words (or in theirs, in the case of the research paper). You may or may not be expected to relate these claims to reality, but sometimes a paragraph of your personal take on it is expected. Instructors generally encourage a little personal opinion because they find it amusing, but you certainly aren’t going to get the grade if you are all ranty opinion and don’t show that you understood the subject matter. Some profs will even hand you an F for a paper like that.
(This is why the few wingtards that go to real colleges think that profs are in some sort of conspiracy against conservatives… because they turned in a WaPo-worthy opinion piece instead of writing the paper assigned.)
Wingnuts go to cargo-cult “university” institutions which require them to parrot received opinions and furthermore expect any paper to be a statement of personal belief. For this they get a cargo-cult degree. Suffused with the arrogance of ignorance, they therefore believe than any college paper is actually a statement of personal belief.
They also have superstitions against reading ideologically heretical or impure books, hence the idea that you’re a Satanist if you study paganism or you’re a Socialist because you’re studying Marx. They also, being ignorant, have no concept of where Marx fits into the (German, but later English-speaking) academic tradition and take the prevalence of Marx’s work in the university setting to be proof that the university is a socialist training camp.
Heck, these are the same people who think science is just another ideology. (Well, them and a few moonbats on the Left, okay so they call it a “narrative,” who have confused symbols for the things they represent. They were also probably experimenting with a few too many herbs and spices, if you know what I mean and I think you do.)
I once did a speech presentation introducing G. Gordon Liddy as keynote speaker at a Young American for Freedom convention (totally bogus, but a good schtick for my Public Speaking portion of Debate Class). Got an “A”, freaked out the DFH prof AND got me in the class rich-bitch debutantes’ pants! I love being a sociopath! I later became president of my union local, and had even more fun fucking with republitards at various political functions. Erk is a fucking goldmine of fabulous lunatic material. I hope he steals more stuff. I await breathlessly for his next knucklehead manifesto.
MMMMM MANGOES!
And an extra bonus helping.
Anger & revenge — Obama fails it.
You know, thinking back to Obama’s one-on-everybody Q&A with the Republican caucus, and how he just stood there with that shit eating grin of his as he deftly handled the heart of the Republicans’ batting order without breaking a sweat, I was just struck by a mental image.
You know how sometimes in the movies, the little kid, enraged, is trying to attack the big kid, and the big kid just puts his hand on the little kid’s forehead, keeping him at arm’s length? The little kid’s swinging haymakers for all he’s worth, but the big kid’s carrying on a conversation, because the little kid can’t reach him?
That’s Obama and the teabaggers, right there. From the perspective of the little kid, I can see how the big kid seems mean and nasty in this situation, but we need not indulge the fantasies of unruly children.
Yes, Marxist historiography (or indeed, “marxian” historiography) is not the same thing as Communism. Another factor is that academics with leftist tendencies, or whose discourse is influenced by left-wing theory, whatever their personal politics, end up looking like a lunatic fringe, because the United States doesn’t really have a mainstream left-wing party by European standards. Which neatly brings us back round to the subject of Kagan’s thesis.
As for academic writing as a statement of personal belief, I’m British and my teachers explicitly said that you don’t have to believe the argument you’re making in an essay (“paper” in American), but you do have to ensure that it’s logical and supported by evidence. The point is to develop critical thinking skills and the ability to assess arguments and form your own. (This was at high school level, by the way. At university the lecturers expected you to understand how to write essays and develop arguments already.)