FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT:
Jacob Levy in Dan Drezner's comments section:
"(though as an academic, I did appreciate how adeptly the writers skewered Ross' academic pretensions)
As I've said to Dan in person, the problem with this is that Ross' academic pretensions don't even roughly correspond to any real-world academic pretensions. Here at Chicago, the traditional pretension about titles is to make such a big deal about not caring about titles as to go by "Mister" rather than even "Professor." (This is falling by the wayside.) "Doctor," which Ross not only insists upon but wants his sexual partners to call him, is constrained to: southern academic culture and its two closely-related kin, black and military academic culture; some continental Europeans trying to recreate "Herr Doktor Professor;" and people with degrees regarded as fake by the rest of academia, especially Ed.D.s. A native-born American white Jewish professor at Columbia who went by "doctor" would be scorned by his colleagues for it.
Don't even get me started on Ross' big conference lecture..."
OxBlog takes on the always-delightful comedy of referral logs.
Joe Carter makes fun of Fred Durst and shows himself to know frighteningly much about Limp Bizkit:
"Anyway, I just wanted to point out one of the unwritten rules of blogging: never post naked pictures of your toddler on your blog. First of all, its rarther icky and will likely attract people like Pete Townsend. Also, your son has enough embarrassment to deal with over his name (Dallas Durst?) and his parentage (Fred Durst?) without having full-frontal nude shots of him floating around the Internet."
Tim Blair on the Normblog profile:
"In what circumstances would you be willing to lie? > Only if there was a chance it could make a little orphan girl sad."
I described Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Carribean to friends as "the answer to the eternal question: what would Keith Richards have been like if he were gay?" Apparently, Keef's going to be doing a cameo in the sequel. As Uncle Grambo would say, so best.
Oh, and My Foreign Correspondent is generally amusing today. On rewatching Kill Bill Vol. :
"hospital warden guy: *** content not appropriate for this site ***
other guy: *** " " ***
hospital warden guy: *** " " ***
me: hmmm this is different from when i saw it the first time... "
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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