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I Enter Bizarro World
I had what I suppose amounts to an “out-of-Berkeley” experience today.
This semester I’m essentially working and taking a single class to fulfill my last breadth requirement and I’m taking the class at the university through concurrent enrollment. It means I’m not registered as a student, and so only have to pay for the actual 4 units that I’m taking, rather than the thousands of dollars of semesterly registration fees.
So it basically boils down to $125 per unit plus a small registration fee. Overall, quite a deal, eh?
Of course, since you’re not considered an official student, it means you get the leftover pick of whatever classes are still available after the registered kids have picked all their courses, and at the discretion of the instructor. Essentially, this means that any popular/impacted classes are streng verboten to the concurrently enrolled, either by decree or simply by the fact that the registered students always are chosen first.
Because of that, looking for a class that fulfills the “International Studies” breadth is a mind-numbing process of looking back and forth between the page that lists the few hundred appropriate courses and poring through the semesterly lists of which ones are actually being taught that semester. Going through them, most needed to be dismissed outright either because they’re already full or conflict with my work schedule. By the time I find a class that has a good amount of open spaces and is at a time I can make, I don’t care if it’s about underwater basket weaving, I’ll take the damn thing and say “Thank you sir, may I have another?”
The class that it ended up being: Political Science 137B: Marxism and Fascism in the Far East.
Yeah, fine. Whatever.
“Just give me my four months of indoctrination into how swell the Chinese revolutionary spirit was, and be done with it,” I thought. “Harangue me with one-sided claptrap arguments about how the supposedly altruistic aims of the ChiComs are what’s really important, and not the fact that they ended up killing millions upon millions and nearly turned what was once the center of civilization into a completely brokendown backwater.
“Furthermore, regale me with tales of how Sun Yat-Sen was really worse than Hitler (but not quite as bad as Bush), and tempt my blood pressure to rise by suggesting with a straight face that the Taiwanese would all be better off if they gave up their shallow, consumerist, prosperity-inducing ways and embraced the politics of meaning that they left on the mainland.
“I don’t care, I’ll sit here and listen to it all with a bemused smile on my face and a smug sense of self-superiority as I marvel that a tenured professor at a top university could be suckered in by this stuff while a 22-year old dumbass kid like myself sees it for the bunk that it is.”
All of that was running through my head as the several hundred students slowly filled up the auditorium and the normal confusion of the first day of a large lecture class dominated sex home dog wife.
I had an inkling something was amiss not long after I started reading the page labeled “Pedagogical Intent, Class Content, and General Deportment.”
No attempts at witty Lilekcisms here, folks. I’m just gonna reproduce the whole thing for you below, let you read it just as I did. It’s reproduced in full with all the original emphases retained. And as you’re reading it, keep in mind, this is a political science class in Berkeley:
The purposes of this course include the inculcation of a principled skepticism among students who have been trained to accept any claims whatsoever as long as such claims are communicated with conviction (the product of an epistomological relativism that has been characteristic of the academic community for at least thirty years).
The presentation of materials in the course of lectures will be predicated on the studied conviction (on the part of the instructor) that contemporary social science has been sadly remiss in teaching young people how to deal with the contemporary political, social, psychological and moral universe in which they live. In effect, the course will not be conducted in a politically correct manner - which means that some students may find the treatment offensive. If you are among those who cannot tolerate alternative opinion, who feel that any departure from the prevailing folk-wisdom of Ethnic Studies or left-wing posturing is objectionable - do not take this course.
This course is an elective. That means you are not required to enroll. It is a course predicated on the conviction that students have not been trained to think coherently, rationally and empirically about the modern world. It conveys non-standard opinions, which you are not required to accept, but with which you must deal.
The subjects chosen are Marxism and Fascism, two controversial subjects that have long been part of the fare of aspiring intellectuals. In our environment, there has been a tendency to consider Marxism a kind of errant humanism, a benevolent creed that sometimes goes astray. Fascism, on the other hand, has always been treated by academics as though it was a simple obscenity, devoid of intelligence and committed to genocidal violence.
I have chosen these subjects because they provide the opportunity to reflect on the nature of public opinion (even if that opinion is academic) dog knot sex. Such opinion could well involve us in conflict in which all of you might be swallowed.
This course will attempt to provide an alternative interpretation of the past century in terms of the contested concepts it will employ as explanatory devices. Hopefully, such treatment might be helpful in understanding the present and our immediate future. If you are a Marxist enthusiast and believe that all the evil in the world is the product of a :vast right-wing conspiracy” - do not take this course. While I am fully prepared to debate your opinions during office hours, acrimonious debate is not permitted during class time. Moreover, I do not want to create intrapsychic tensions among those who are irretrievably leftist.
If you cannot get to class on time - do not take this course. If you are disposed to be insolent in the effort to become large man on campus - do not take this course. If you must regularly classes early and disrupt the proceedings - do not take this course. If you require medication to remain civil - do not take this course.
Yeah, I know. Major jaw-on-floor territory here, folks.
The professor’s name is A. James Gregor, and a quick googling revealed that his main academic focus seems to be the twin evils of Marxism and Fascism, and that his main argument regarding the two says that they cannot be separated into the extreme left and right wings, but that they are both intertwined inextricably by many commonalities not only of means but also of ends. This isn’t a revolutionary theory in the real world, but I can tell you from personal experience that the notion is alien to the atmosphere at least on this college campus.
From a summary of Gregor’s book The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century:
The thesis of his book is that the theoretical and practical relationship between Fascism and Marxism is “curvilinear rather than rectilinear” (p beastiality toons. 128).
[…]
Gregor devotes the middle chapters of the book (Chapters 4, 5, & 6) to a detailed discussion of the regimes of the former Soviet Union and Maoist China. Here he argues that the practical applications of Marxist-Leninist theory took on an essentially Fascist appearance. Mao and Stalin both conceived of the world as divided between “less-developed nations and advanced industrial democracies” (p. 73). This gave rise to the nationalistic policies of each country which stressed revolutionary violence and submission to the charismatic leader (pp. 80-82). Since these are characteristics that are typically described as “right wing” it was “never made quite clear whether Maoism [or Stalinism] was a form of ‘right wing extremism’ or ‘left wing adventure,’ which suggests that the distinction was never really clear or convincing” (p. 75).
Did I mention that this guy is a political science professor at Berkeley?
The whole thing only got more surreal after he actually began talking. I was sitting in the back of Wheeler Auditorium so perhaps my vantage point wasn’t ideal, but the guy looks like Aristotle Onassis, complete with ’70’s era sunglasses. His voice sounded vaguely like it retains just the shades of a Brooklyn accent, and his casual cadence of speech seems to hint that he could at any moment say, “Fuggedaboutit.”
He started talking about the course material and subject matter, but essentially used that just as a springboard to launch into a very long rant (and it was most certainly a rant) about all the things wrong with Berkeley specifically and contemporary academia in general beastiality slavegirls.
He described how he heard people talk about Marxism’s glorious future, both internationally and in the US.
“I’ve had to listen to that stupidity my whole life!”
He went on, describing how “Berkeley dementia is pandemic,” and warned everyone that “You’re going to get irritated in thsi class. Just look on my office door to see how ticked off students get.”
He made it clear he’s something of a curmudgeon, and also perhaps a great big asshole. I mean, I’m as annoyed as the next guy when someone wanders into class 45 minutes late, but I still felt acutely sorry for the kids he tore apart today who did, and I was pretty put-off by it.
He did say we’d all get irritated, though, didn’t he? I’m not sure what to expect on Thursday, but at the very least I’m looking forward to the next lecture with more enthusiasm than I’ve had for any of my classes in a long time.
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
for the life of me, cannot see it. The news showed a clip of a guy trying politely to walk around a woman so self-righteous
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
superiority.
It is time for a new day to dawn in the Blogosphere, my gnome brothers. A glorious day. A day when no longer will we
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
Why are you still here?!
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
Saddam is so hot to get his grubby hands on nukes is enough evidence of aggression. What's he going to do with them once
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
hacky-sack?"
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
computer systems.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
vulnerability.
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
of the mass moron movement.
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
rivals.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
nothing may stand in our way!
Wheeler Hall last spring.
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
rivals.
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
Anyway, take the new site for a test drive. Take her easy on the clutch and go steady on the hills, and I think you'll
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
that I hadn't thought of it first!
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
Maybe I can't change the fact that I have to be intimately confronted with the death and pain in order to really feel the
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
University or Diversity
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
In your face, Space Coyote!
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
and you'll get diversity in the speech by the politician, in the one by the principal who welcomes him and in the one by
who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
Why are you still here?!
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
University or Diversity
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
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who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
It is time for a new day to dawn in the Blogosphere, my gnome brothers. A glorious day. A day when no longer will we
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
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President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
act such as this. In a few days or weeks, I'm sure it will subside to a colder, more focused resolution to continue to
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
But for now if you all don't mind, I'd just like to stew in my rage for a while, and remind myself in a truly visceral
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
cause, but I,
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
Saddam is so hot to get his grubby hands on nukes is enough evidence of aggression. What's he going to do with them once
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
vulnerability.
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
we could go and stop the Soviets and all their expansionist hijinks, but then we'd like, have to go all the way over to
It is time for a new day to dawn in the Blogosphere, my gnome brothers. A glorious day. A day when no longer will we
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
for the life of me, cannot see it. The news showed a clip of a guy trying politely to walk around a woman so self-righteous
In your face, Space Coyote!
to penetrate.
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
go it alone. What he failed to do was tell us who the members of his war coalition are. Why? Because there is no coalition.
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
let you know when there's a mushroom cloud over New York, because that's the only "final proof" that seems to be able to
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
Anyway, take the new site for a test drive. Take her easy on the clutch and go steady on the hills, and I think you'll
the Feds know about it.
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
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which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
rivals.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
about equal probability.
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
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It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
In your face, Space Coyote!
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
that I hadn't thought of it first!
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
and you'll get diversity in the speech by the politician, in the one by the principal who welcomes him and in the one by
who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
Anyway, take the new site for a test drive. Take her easy on the clutch and go steady on the hills, and I think you'll
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
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