In case you forgot, it was 10 years ago this week that Frank J. banned me.
Don’t remind him, okay?
Archive of entries posted on 21st September 2019
Llamarick
From Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.
The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.
.Executive Producer JOHN GOLDSTONE & “RALPH” The Wonder Llama
Producer
MARK FORSTATER
Assisted By
EARL J. LLAMA
MIKE Q. LLAMA III
SY LLAMA
MERLE Z. LLAMA IX
Directed By
40 SPECIALLY TRAINED ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS
6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS
142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS
14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS (CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA)
REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON
76000 BATTERY LLAMAS FROM “LLAMA-FRESH” FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY
and
TERRY GILLIAM & TERRY JONES
Well, this is going over like a steel drum!
So here’s today’s unfinished work-in-progress.
And I checked: there are rhymes.
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That Peruvian creature, the Llama
Reminds me, somehow, of Obama:
It can be black or white,
Push-Me-Pull-You, and bite…
Evel!
Remember Evel Knievel? Sure you do. But what do you think of when you think of him? Jumping over cars? Crashing after jumping over cars? Jumping that canyon? Astronaut?
Wait. What?
Would you have ridden such a rocket?
And They Thought He Was All Barefoot and Free-Lovey
Next time a liberal gets all poetryish with you, give ’em a few blades from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass:
To the States
To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
(That’s the whole poem)
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. . . or a later poem, in the same book:
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To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]
Why reclining, interrogating? why myself and all drowsing?
What deepening twilight-scum floating atop of the waters,
Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?
What a filthy Presidentiad! (O South, your torrid suns! O North, your arctic freezings!)
Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President?
Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for reasons;
(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake,
South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
Doesn’t sound to me like ol’ Walt was a big fan of Washington, D.C.
[He was a conscientious objector in the first Civil War, but volunteered as a male nurse to wounded soldiers, and this shaped his opinion of war.]
Straight Line of the Day: Aliens Just Arrived in a Large Wooden Badger. They Immediately Demanded…
Socialized Education?? Coals to Newcastle.
In October of 2018, Sam Abrams, a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times, asserting that “the ever-growing ranks of administrators have the biggest influence on students and campus life across the country.” The op-ed, headlined “Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators,” included Abrams’ research on the political affiliation of college administrators.
Teaching faculty across the U.S. are known to have a leftward tilt relative to the general population. Abrams reported that liberal professors outnumber conservative ones by a 6-1 margin. But among administrative staff that ratio skyrockets to 12-1. In New England, Abrams found it to be as high as 25-1. Students themselves, by way of contrast, identify as liberal rather than conservative by a more modest 2-1 ratio. As Abrams put it, “It appears that a fairly liberal student body is being taught by a very liberal professoriate—and socialized by an incredibly liberal group of administrators.”
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Over the last four decades the share of teaching faculty across the U.S. who hold full-time, tenure-track positions has fallen by 50%. Meanwhile, administrative positions drove a 28% increase in the higher-ed workforce between 2000 and 2012. Not unrelatedly, the cost of college has increased 440% over the past quarter-century.
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— How Oberlin’s Bias and Bloat Fueled a $33 Million Blunder
Real Clear Education | 10 September 2019 | Nathan Harden
Excessive-Pitch Meeting
If 2016 was “The Flight 93 Election” . . .
What do we have to lose by fighting back? Only our Washington Generals jerseys—and paychecks. But those are going away anyway. Among the many things the “Right” still doesn’t understand is that the Left has concluded that this particular show need no longer go on. They don’t think they need a foil anymore and would rather dispense with the whole bother of staging these phony contests in which each side ostensibly has a shot.
. . . then the 2020 race — with the persistent and unchecked plummet of the Democrats towards disastrous policies — might be called “The Boeing 737 MAX Election.”
It may augur into the ground, but, if the Democrats win, it won’t augur well.
