The ridiculous drama of the bored: “Sometimes simply surviving is work. It’s hard work. And it really does make a difference in the world. Even if the world for that moment is small and no one else seems to notice.” And now imagine the horror of being the child of this hysteric who sees her problem-free, infantilized existence as a struggle for survival. Imagine having no escape from this posing. Imagine being forced to be the only source of food for her.
The smoking age in New York might go up to 21. Probably because the drinking age limit works so well. Old enough to drive but not old enough to smoke. Makes total sense. The reasoning behind this piece of arrant idiocy is the old belief held by the especially stupid and ignorant that people who start smoking early are more likely to get addicted. It is fascinating how it never occurs to people that correlation does not need to equal causation.
“Let us hope that the current Yale faculty is a dying breed, to be eviscerated by the free-flowing ideas that pulse across the Internet and cannot so easily be shut down.” Oh yes. Let’s hope for that, indeed. It could have been a great university but for the sad current state of affairs where tenured faculty members (who only teach a tiny minority of courses) are so preoccupied with preserving their status of living geniuses that they never say anything other than the most boring trivialities ever in the classroom. On the subject of the linked post, why would anybody have anything against a course on the Western Civilization?
“Jim Geddes, a member of the University of Colorado Board of Regents, is calling on liberal arts departments at the flagship campus at Boulder to hire more professors who are conservatives.” So this prick is advocating ideological discrimination in the hiring process? Will he be creating a list of approved opinions the successful candidates must possess to get hired? And more importantly, are the faculty members of this stupid pretense at a university rising in outrage and calling for this Stalinist to be ejected from campus? Or are they sitting impotently by?
The worst way to start an academic essay in literature.
An interesting discussion on the completely ridiculous concept of “flipping lectures.” I’m beyond annoyed by people who know nothing about how a classroom is run but still create idiotic suggestions aimed at sneaking in MOOC strategies. Bleh.
And an intelligent albeit short response to the previous discussion.
And the post of the week: the relationship phrases that need to be thrown away.
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