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WaPo: Outside agitators are involved in campus disruptions.

May 3, 2024 / / 0 Comments

WaPo: Many protesters are outsiders

WaPo: Many protesters are outsiders

More than a quarter of protesters arrested Tuesday at Columbia University and 60 percent of those arrested at the City College of New York had no connections to the institutions, according to data from the New York Police Department.

It’s time to take these provocateurs seriously.  When a DA wants to, an avalanche of charges can be dropped on a defendant.  Outside agents should be treated as a serious threat.  They should be kept in jail as long as is legally possible to keep them from fomenting chaos elsewhere.  Intelligence agencies should be investigating their background.  Foreigners can be expelled, and student visas revoked.

The useful idiots from the student body should face university disciplinary hearings along with more modest charges.  Academic freedom doesn’t shield faculty from punishment for criminal activity.  They should be dismissed from the university.

Our government representatives should be monitoring the response by university and local officials.  If these disruptions aren’t seriously addressed, those officials should face consequences.

Indulging bad behavior isn’t doing anyone any favors.

May 2, 2024 / / 0 Comments

My old classroom at North Royalton was on the second floor.  The windows opened on to the roof of the first floor.  Prior to my employment, a physics student climbed out the window, on to the roof.  The teacher, Miss Jen, tried to coax the student back in.   She begged, promised, compromised and negotiated.  The student screwed around on the roof until the period was almost over, then came in.

There are a few ways to handle a situation like this, but the main dysfunction is that the student thought climbing out the window was an action to consider.

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April 30, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Those old movies, with a manly star like Humphrey Bogart or Cary Grant, made an impression on me.  The tough guy could be stranded on an island, living on the prairie or on the African Queen, and they always manage to shave.  Invariable, if the fella isn’t shaving, it’s because he is drunk all the time.

In The African Queen, Humphrey Bogart explains it.  “A man alone, he gets to living like a hog.”  Inevitably, a woman throws all the booze away and civilizes him.

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April 30, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Politico: Far Right wants more babies.

Real Clear Politics: Have more babies.

Based on recent articles, we are supposed to worry about not having enough babies and people who worry about not having enough babies.

Back in the 1980’s, before we were afraid all the time, I supported several environmental groups.  Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund and a few others.  Never Greenpeace, they were already crazy.  World population was an issue of interest, so I supported a group called Negative Population Growth.

They were completely reasonable, but in retrospect, I can see how they could go off-the-rails in a catastrophic way.

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Philadelphia Inquirer: Enforcing order on campus

April 29, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Philadelphia Inquirer: Storming Campuses

I value free speech and celebrate this commentary from an agent of chaos.

They are destroying the American university in order to keep it “safe.” In a week when decades happened, the lowest moments in what became a nationwide assault on college free speech by militarized police veered from shock to tragicomical irony.

Police should always conduct themselves as professionals and use an amount of force necessary to maintain order.

BLM, Occupy Wall Street and any other mob of thugs intending to disrupt lives and seize property should be arrested, charged and have their day in court. 

It is a relief to see university and government officials doing their jobs without regard for their own political opinions.

NYT: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV

April 29, 2024 / / 0 Comments

NYT: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV

NYT: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV

This NYT article makes some good points, but without a good conclusion.  Many TV shows are good, but not great.  It is suggested that actors who were in great shows are used to make new, uninspired shows.

In February, Glover and Erskine returned in the action thriller “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” on Amazon Prime Video. It’s … fine? A takeoff on the 2005 film, it updates the story of a married duo of spies by imagining the espionage business as gig work.

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Sparky meets a tick.

April 27, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Sparky is mortified that I’m telling this story.

Ticks are bad this year.  Sparky is treated with Frontline Plus, but that kills ticks after they bite and, hopefully, before any pathogens are transmitted.  I prefer to get any ticks before they bite Sparky or me, so I watch for any signs.

Sparky had a bath today, which he doesn’t enjoy, so I wanted to give him some extra quality time.  When we sit on the floor watching TV, Sparky likes to snuggle up.  We were nice and comfy when Sparky set to licking his undercarriage.  Not that unusual, but he had to stand up to squirm around so he could really get in there.  That seemed rather vulgar for a gentleman like Sparky.

I got him to lay down, then I rolled him over.  I didn’t see anything at first, then I found a tick on the end of his dick.  Seeing a wretched little tick, with those pointy barbed legs, crawling around on his little soft pink spot, made me shiver.

Sparky wasn’t sure what I was playing at, but when I removed the tick, he was relieved.  The photo above is from shortly afterward.  No need for a photo of the tick in action.  That mental image will haunt me.

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