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July 9, 2010
They Make The Best Duck L'Orange Screwdrivers, Here
How To Tell If You've Had Too Much
GNN Booze Review - News from Beverage World. Call us when you have a Ball Park Frank version or Big Boy Double Bacon & Cheese!
GNN Booze Review - News from Beverage World. Call us when you have a Ball Park Frank version or Big Boy Double Bacon & Cheese!
July 8, 2010
A voice of sanity, a voice of inspiration and (obviously) a classy dame!
Sometimes, you just gotta marvel at the folks writing and educating out there in the blogosphere. You'll meet one of these web rangers over at Fuzzy Logic. GO. READ. LEARN SOMETHING.
White Guilt and Gynoguilt:
How the Left's Culture of Victimhood Undermines Equality
By Fuzzy Slippers
As we all know, the left and particularly its kudzu-like interweaving into and strangling of all aspects of academia is very fond of its "isms." Feminism, racism, whateverism--all purportedly designed to "call out" the oppressive white male and to tear down sexist walls, crash through glass ceilings, break out of the cycle of oppression. So imagine my surprise when, as a graduate student, I learned that I should not be teaching a particular female author in a Modern Literature class. She's an excellent, if under-read and under-appreciated, modern writer, but the chair of my department explained to me that her work should be taught in "women's literature" classes. It turns out that faux feminists were happy to perpetuate the idea that the term "modern writer" actually means "white male modern writer" and that because of this, a woman cannot be a "modern writer" at all. She's a writer of "women's literature."
"Women's literature" classes are chock-full of readings by people whose only qualification as a "writer" is a vagina. The "literature" is often . . . well, let's just say, not good. This isn't always the case, but often enough that you have to wonder why it's being taught at all (other than to fill in the entire semester's reading list by dredging up every female writer who ever put pen to paper). This gyno-centric reading list and my being told not to teach a truly outstanding female author in a "traditional" lit class initially unnerved and confused me. But the real reason is actually quite clear, if rather sinister: if we started selecting excellent female writers and started teaching them as if they were "real" literature, we'd end the hate-fueled gravy train. Who or what would the leftist intellectual elite write their endless, repetitive, belly-button-gazing critical essays about? What would happen to their careers if they had no one to demonize and no one to treat as a perpetual victim?
How on earth can we achieve any kind of gendered or racial harmony if we continue to perpetuate this bizarre notion that women and minorities must be treated with kid gloves or as strange anomalies to be taught in isolation, put on intellectual display as if they are animals in a zoo? Doesn't gyno-centric or race-based "grouping" serve only to underscore the "difference," to highlight the supposed inadequacies of said group/s? Yet when we on the right want to treat female authors or black authors as the equals of their white, male counterparts (i.e. actually worthy of study on the merits of the text, not because they have a vagina or other-than-white skin), we are not permitted to do so. In the name of equality.
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White Guilt and Gynoguilt:
How the Left's Culture of Victimhood Undermines Equality
By Fuzzy Slippers
As we all know, the left and particularly its kudzu-like interweaving into and strangling of all aspects of academia is very fond of its "isms." Feminism, racism, whateverism--all purportedly designed to "call out" the oppressive white male and to tear down sexist walls, crash through glass ceilings, break out of the cycle of oppression. So imagine my surprise when, as a graduate student, I learned that I should not be teaching a particular female author in a Modern Literature class. She's an excellent, if under-read and under-appreciated, modern writer, but the chair of my department explained to me that her work should be taught in "women's literature" classes. It turns out that faux feminists were happy to perpetuate the idea that the term "modern writer" actually means "white male modern writer" and that because of this, a woman cannot be a "modern writer" at all. She's a writer of "women's literature." "Women's literature" classes are chock-full of readings by people whose only qualification as a "writer" is a vagina. The "literature" is often . . . well, let's just say, not good. This isn't always the case, but often enough that you have to wonder why it's being taught at all (other than to fill in the entire semester's reading list by dredging up every female writer who ever put pen to paper). This gyno-centric reading list and my being told not to teach a truly outstanding female author in a "traditional" lit class initially unnerved and confused me. But the real reason is actually quite clear, if rather sinister: if we started selecting excellent female writers and started teaching them as if they were "real" literature, we'd end the hate-fueled gravy train. Who or what would the leftist intellectual elite write their endless, repetitive, belly-button-gazing critical essays about? What would happen to their careers if they had no one to demonize and no one to treat as a perpetual victim?
How on earth can we achieve any kind of gendered or racial harmony if we continue to perpetuate this bizarre notion that women and minorities must be treated with kid gloves or as strange anomalies to be taught in isolation, put on intellectual display as if they are animals in a zoo? Doesn't gyno-centric or race-based "grouping" serve only to underscore the "difference," to highlight the supposed inadequacies of said group/s? Yet when we on the right want to treat female authors or black authors as the equals of their white, male counterparts (i.e. actually worthy of study on the merits of the text, not because they have a vagina or other-than-white skin), we are not permitted to do so. In the name of equality.
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July 5, 2010
Nickie Goomba's message to American males: Grow a set!
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This gives you an idea of how it would have sounded had Lewis & Clark been committed life partners.
This gives you an idea of how it would have sounded had Lewis & Clark been committed life partners.
July 4, 2010
Five Million Shrimp Saved
Gore Describing Physique of The Perfect Masseuse (GNN File Photo)
GNN has learned that Albert "DNA" Gore will not be attending Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
GNN has learned that Albert "DNA" Gore will not be attending Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
Independence Day
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Americans have bravely sacrificed, fought, and died for independence throughout our history.That independence must not end on our watch.Prepare.
July 2, 2010
Intellectually and spiritually curious? Maybe this will be enjoyable. If this offends you, skip it, and then go off and have a warm and wonderful 4th.
I only post this because you all mean so much to me. It's Tim Keller speaking at UC Berkeley. Yes, BERKELEY!
A Conversation with Tim Keller: Belief in an Age of Skepticism? from The Veritas Forum on Vimeo.
July 1, 2010
"Get off of me, you big lummox!!"
Is this a) the message from Gore masseuse to the inventor of the internets and all-around loverboy; b) exclamation of Goomba's Twister partner; c) American voters message to their government this November; or d) all of the above?
June 30, 2010
More Anecdotal Evidence of the Existence of God
Last Friday, we went out for a partner's birthday lunch ... at a little Texas BBQ joint. Good stuff. You come down here, and we'll go (on Goomba's card). Anyhoo, it seems that the proprietor of this little establishment, like most businesspeople here, likes Fox News. They had it on in our little dining room.
The Lord, ever mindful of showing His most wonderful sense of humor, sat the liberal women on the side of the table facing Fox News. Megyn Kendall was on ... ah, I heard her voice, and knowing that it irritated the liberal females ... all of whom are neither as pretty nor as smart ... it made me smile. Then, they get mad at me for watching Fox. Funny.
Don't get mad at me that God exists.
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