Academics: Your Moral Superiors

Amazingly, the Chronicle of Higher Education features an article that tries to explain "Why Mideast Tumult Caught Scholars By Surprise".

I'll tell you why.

Because the academy is full of pinheaded loser douchebags who never seek external (read: real life) validation of their idiotic theoretic socialist garbage fantasies because they are too busy celebrating diversity, sucking each other off and complaining about BOOOOOOOOOOSH.

Who uses the word 'tumult' anyway in describing revolutions? Quaint pinheads.

Quote of the Day

"Intellectuals have a tendency to become whores.

Ha! Paul Rahe, you had me at whores!!!

"They are not especially well paid [ed note: actually, they are, they have a really sweet deal], and they resent the fact. But modest compensation is not the thing that bothers them the most. What they really crave is recognition, and in its pursuit they are apt to become slaves to fashion.

"But pursuing the latest intellectual fad is not the greatest of the sins that they are inclined to commit – for they are even more apt to adopt a servile and submissive posture when in the presence of political power. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all had an intellectual claque in the West. Fidel Castro still does. Even Kim Jong-il and Muamar Gaddafi have had such admirers."

"The main point that I want to make is that vanity, the vice that besets the intellectual, can make a man into a moron."

Claire Berlinski Asks: "Are We Beyond Shame"?

Obviously not.

This is very standard stuff for the academy nowadays.

Mob Rule on Campus

This is really what it is like, folks.

"True-blue conservatives have no trouble arresting neo-Nazis who threaten violence, but lib-left peace-mongers find it hard to arrest neo-Red Guards."

"It's simpler to silence protested speakers. No wonder the left's book burners are emboldened. When they riot, their opponents are read the riot act.

"Fertilized by the warm manure of left-wing culture, flowers of hideous hues bloom in the groves of academia, from anarcho-terrorist black to eco-fascist and Islamist green, while helpless taxpayers and hoodwinked philanthropists fork over fortunes to the gardeners."

Things That Are So Stupid That Only An Academic Could Have Thought Of

Remember that economic meltdown in the US?

Guess what it was caused by?

Yep.

Raaaaaacism.

Must Read: "Death By Professor"

How I love that title! Damn. Wish I had thought of it!

This is a very interesting piece by an academic about the ivory tower and the elites who govern us.

How well I know the mentality!

Not unrelated: Saul Alinksy's American Dream.

Oy to the Vey: Dude Talks Like A Lady

You can't make this stuff up.

It seems that there really is some kind of unofficial competition between crazy, lefty campuses as to who can be the most disgusting and radical nowadays.

What Would We Do Without Research?

This sounds like a pretty nifty gig.

I would like a grant for studying firemen and IDF pilots.