tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post4767377254054057948..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: The Theater of the Absurdkcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-48195664072875214182007-01-13T18:33:00.000-05:002007-01-13T18:33:00.000-05:00While this may seem off subject, I think it speaks...While this may seem off subject, I think it speaks to the larger issue and what is causing us to blog on this article: it's neo-racism. Haven’t we learned that racism just doesn’t work? Look what happen to the NAZI’s? What about the KKK? So, I find it ironic that we now find some African-Americans in positions of power or influence, victims of racism; and those who curry their support, have now become active racist themselves. I believe they feel it’s a fitting form of reparation to subject some whites to the same injustices they or their ancestors experienced. They somehow think this reverse hatred will right past or present wrongs. This neo-racism highlighted by the jury in the OJ Simpson trail and most recently seen with the Duke legal case is becoming tiresome and many are starting to say enough is enough, as they begin to realize that racism is not just a “white thing” perpetrated on blacks and other minorities. I take comfort that the general public is now starting to recognize these racists. As an opponent of all racism, I think if we’re going to coexists as a society we need to get over the race thing and come together as one. Instead of following the tenants of Adolph Hitler and David Duke, on the eve of Dr Martin Luther King’s birthday, I think these racists within the African-American community and those who support them, need to listen to another King who said "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-66871389674001755982007-01-13T18:02:00.000-05:002007-01-13T18:02:00.000-05:00One option open to Nifong when his case appears be...One option open to Nifong when his case appears before the ethics board is to plead insanity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-62285403166117982252007-01-12T15:18:00.000-05:002007-01-12T15:18:00.000-05:00It's awful to imagine the agony and trauma that Ho...It's awful to imagine the agony and trauma that Holloway must have endured because of her son. And Mrs. Dowd's e-mail was way over the top in my opinion; her son's still alive, after all. But Observer's right. If your own son is a multiple rapist and killer, simple good sense and good taste would dictate that you don't go around self-righteously accusing others of the same crime and pontificating about its deplorable social implications.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-19487258239984683652007-01-12T14:30:00.000-05:002007-01-12T14:30:00.000-05:00i read the investigative report..it sounds like th...i read the investigative report..it sounds like they were playing twister in the bathroom...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-65102690486079960162007-01-12T14:18:00.000-05:002007-01-12T14:18:00.000-05:00Mama bear... LOL, I know the fairy tail, but is us...Mama bear... LOL, I know the fairy tail, but is using the words in this context new? I have never seen the expression used in such a context prior to this blog! I know a bunch of acedemic type read this blog so maybe someone knows ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-51315797579688663782007-01-12T14:11:00.000-05:002007-01-12T14:11:00.000-05:00RP has an interesting post about AAAS on Coleman R...RP has an interesting post about AAAS on Coleman Report thread. Posted around 1;30.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-12497409322773280892007-01-12T13:19:00.000-05:002007-01-12T13:19:00.000-05:00Re: Holloway/Dowd e-mail exchange,
Well at the ...Re: Holloway/Dowd e-mail exchange,<br /> Well at the risk of being very trite, "People who live in glass houses should not throw stones." Given her family history, WHAT compelled Ms. Holloway to address the LAX case at all, much less in such an in your face, public fashion with her essay, Group of 88 ad, and initial acceptance of the chair for the campus committee? I do not believe we have standing to launch the kind of attack Mrs. Dowd launched, but I do believe she was within her rights to do so. Most Mama Bears and plenty of Papa Bears, I believe, would agree.<br /><br />ObserverAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-64780345538967175172007-01-12T13:15:00.000-05:002007-01-12T13:15:00.000-05:00Just noticed that all of the contact information f...Just noticed that all of the contact information for Linwood's music group, The SpokesmenQuartet, has been deleted. Ya think they may be getting some calls asking about ethics? Sad actually. Looks like a a good quartet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-69162381951881963892007-01-12T13:14:00.000-05:002007-01-12T13:14:00.000-05:00Just a mini-monograph on the question of why the F...Just a mini-monograph on the question of why the Feds haven't intervened in this situation as of yet. I've addressed this elsewhere on this blog, but here follows a synopsis of why any Fed action (at least meaningful intervention, as opposed to a "feel-good PR ploy") is unlikely:<br /><br />States and the Feds are considered separate jurisdictions, and even on many matters, separate sovereigns, going back to the tradeoff Federalists at the Founding offered to States to get them to join a new union. It has for centuries been considered a major province of states that they largely dictate what is in their penal codes regarding such matters as commonlaw crimes--garden variety crimes--like rape and robbery and burglary. The Feds are very reluctant as a result of this arrangement to intrude into how a particular state handles its affairs around the issue of commonlaw crimes. The "violence against women" act of several years ago was struck down as unconstitutional mostly on the grounds that it violated state prerogatives to regulate sex crimes in their respective states.<br /><br />So the Feds need a hook--a piece of legislation--to hang, that is justify, any intervention in this case. If the defendants were black, or from a place like Iran where the "national origin" status of the perps. might subject them to mistreatment from locals, the Feds could--and I believe would--intervene under color of the 14th Amendment and/or other legislation or Constitutional Amendments.<br /><br />Given the multiple layers of Federal bureaucracy and overreach, hypothetically there is some legal framework that would still justify intervention; personally, I don't know of any.<br /><br />If the defendants were actually in jail, the Feds could not even issue a habeas corpus motion, because these motions are more attendant to cases--like the Guantanamo terrorists--who are being held indefinitely without sufficiently specific charges being accounted as to why they are being held. Habeas corpus would still not apply, as absurd as this case is, because the charges against the defendants (however absurd) are specific, and the trial date is set and upcoming (however successful Nifong was in setting it months beyond recognition).<br /><br />In short, the Feds need a legal hook to cover any intervention they might do, else if they try to get involved as simply a way of acknowledging "they feel the Duke Three's pain," without trying to issue edicts to get Nifong sidelined, they risk seeming ineffectual and irrelevant. <br /><br />Hence their silence so far, and hence the likelihood of their continued silence.Newyorkstateofmindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14165305454568651927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-34712935288081435462007-01-12T12:40:00.001-05:002007-01-12T12:40:00.001-05:00Staples 11:21
Thanks for the input on the NYT for...Staples 11:21<br /><br />Thanks for the input on the NYT forum. That they so actively disallow comments that so clearly meet their own guidelines makes their nixing your comments that much more egregious. It's the totalitarian temptation in full display: not simply disregarding speech they don't like, or even "editing" it (which under the pen of MSM'ers can mean mangling or even reversing the original meaning), but simply killing it. <br /><br />Makes me appreciate the freedoms we have on this blog, along with the impact I know we're having, that much more.Newyorkstateofmindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14165305454568651927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-74504176444955805002007-01-12T12:40:00.000-05:002007-01-12T12:40:00.000-05:00Why aren't the accusations of rape considered sexu...Why aren't the accusations of rape considered sexual harassment?<br /><br />The faculty involved in pot banging should be drummed out of the school on sexual harassment charges.<br /><br />Imagine a group of professors calling for female students to confess to whoring themselves out and pot banging in front of their house that they are sluts.<br /><br />That would be sexual harassment and people would be sued and jobs would be lost.<br /><br />You figure it out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-31577339066562747342007-01-12T12:07:00.000-05:002007-01-12T12:07:00.000-05:00KC, your "my [sic] personal favorite" reminds me o...KC, your "my [sic] personal favorite" reminds me of Dickens's similar redundancy, "Our Mutual [sic] Friend." Of course, you should have written "a personal fav"<br /><br />9:03--it's res ipso loquitur<br /><br />re N suborning perjury: CGM has no credibility now, so how would her "testimony" implicate N?<br /><br />11:45--boycott 88's classes?--absolutely! should also concentrate on defunding BS studies and ending quotas for students and faculty<br /><br />re "class of individuals"--the lacresse players do not constitute a "class"<br /><br />I'm going to visit Duke's site and examine their Chinese and Japanese oriented pedagogy<br /><br />Guess what argument I'll be making?<br /><br />Roman PolanskiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-80184595101071566012007-01-12T12:01:00.000-05:002007-01-12T12:01:00.000-05:00Anonymous 10:31 is right.
Karla Holloway response...Anonymous 10:31 is right.<br /><br />Karla Holloway response was not great, but no one is going to answer kindly to the type of letter she received. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel bad for Holloway, her behaviour did bring this kind of anger. But in the end these two women were in a fight(e-mail fight but still a fight) not a discussion. Blaming Holloway for her response is like blaming someone for throwing the third punch in a fight. The first punch was from Holloway, the second punch the letter from Ms. Dowd (well ok this migh be more than a punch , she really opened a can of whoopass on Holloway ), the 3rd puch was from Holloway in defense of the severe trashing she recieved. The reason I don't feel so bad for Holloway is that she started the fight but it looks like Ms Dowd is going to finish it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-85100804849582839172007-01-12T11:50:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:50:00.000-05:00Prof. Holloway's writings speak volumns about her ...Prof. Holloway's writings speak volumns about her political agenda as well as her racism. It is a useless task to think that reasoned arguments will change the minds of any members of the Group of 88. Dowd never expected her letter to become public knowledge and with that the reference to the son of Prof. Holloway. Regardless of what any of us believe to be true of Holloway, the references to her son, his life and demise and a comparison to the sons of the lacrosse families and their future successes were low blows at best. Holloway, like most adoptive parents, seek to improve the lives of their children and take on those risks attendant with adopting foster children. It simply cannot be said that Holloway failed as a parent because of the child's failure. Very often children succeed despite the failures of their parents. In many respects the letter is unfortunate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-89993498141301724052007-01-12T11:45:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:45:00.000-05:00Earl Hofert 10:06
Your comments bring to mind one...Earl Hofert 10:06<br /><br />Your comments bring to mind one more piece to this outrage that needs to be worked on: <br /><br />a campus-wide boycott of all classes that all of the G88 teach. <br /><br />As I relate elsewhere on another thread, even civil actions against those who've instigated and enabled this persecution are likely to be bundled by the Duke Administration into a series of settlements, to the effect that very few, and possibly no actions will be able to drag individuals responsible for some of the most harm into civil court. <br /><br />Alternatively, if individual Duke parents sue individuals within the G88, and within the Duke Administration, or even the G88 as a group, and refuse to allow the attorney representing them to settle any of their claims--which BTW will like all settlements seal all discussions and matters in connection with the settlement case, with the stipulation that there is "no admission of wrongdoing,"--then one could see an open-court accounting by some of the miscreants afterall. We'll have to see how this all plays out.<br /><br />As for a campuswide boycott of all the G88 classes, Duke must have guidelines on how many students must register for a given class, for that class to be held. If a bunch of G88'ers find their rosters so thin that they can't actually field their classes, then Duke will have to set up a special system for them to keep them on payroll. Which system can then be blogged and monitored to further embarrass the mavens at Duke who don't support their own students, while enabling the worst tendencies of their Mandarin professors.<br /><br />The potential problem with this whole plan is that it is contingent on Duke's leftists students not enrolling in the very classes which make up the bulk of classes they would take anyway: <br /><br />e.g., Facial Makeup for the Transgendered, Or How Troy Got "His'n'Her" Groove Back.<br /><br />Any thoughts anyone?Newyorkstateofmindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14165305454568651927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-41762403316689102812007-01-12T11:42:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:42:00.000-05:00What has the paternity testing showed? Who's the d...What has the paternity testing showed? Who's the daddy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-86542026203194980712007-01-12T11:25:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:25:00.000-05:00While I clearly side with Dowd and do think it is ...While I clearly side with Dowd and do think it is a good point that she is in some sense a "customer" I also think that her bringing up Holloway's dead son is way out of line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-30266592369709818292007-01-12T11:24:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:24:00.000-05:00re: 10:51
In large corporations, you
reflect the ...re: 10:51<br /><br />In large corporations, you<br />reflect the company in your<br />business dealings and on your<br />personal time (though these<br />two are becoming the same<br />thing more and more).<br /><br />In my case, customers were<br />paying my then employer lots<br />of money for high-level service. I'd guess that parents consider that they're paying a lot for quality service too.<br /><br />In a company, an employee<br />can go to their manager if<br />they have a customer and<br />the manager can then arbitrate with a difficult<br />customer or put in another<br />customer service person that<br />is better able to deal with a difficult customer.<br /><br />If you want an interesting<br />exercise, call up Dell customer support (home) and try to get them mad at you. You'll get someone from India and you can say anything that you want to over the phone and you'll be very hard-pressed to get the person on the other end of the phone to raise their temper. Same deal with Verizon DSL customer service representatives.<br /><br />These people appreciate the fact that they have a job when there are so many others in their country that don't.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381497683202091939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-34779108869520280402007-01-12T11:21:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:21:00.000-05:00nystateofmind 11:04
According to the NYT:
"Comme...nystateofmind 11:04<br /><br />According to the NYT:<br /><br />"Comments are moderated and will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive. They may be edited for length and clarity. For more information" (then refers to membership agreement)<br /><br />My comments were on-topic, and "not abusive." It was short and clear. Yet, my comments got zapped.<br /><br />NYT has two boxes that one needs to fill in if you want to comment: (1) name (can be penname); (2) e-mail address.<br /><br />StaplesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-23057103901892616392007-01-12T11:20:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:20:00.000-05:00I just can't stop thinking about what Karla Haulaw...I just can't stop thinking about what Karla Haulaway, Baker, the 88, the NAACP, the "New" BP's, Sharpton, Jackson, etc... would be doing if the race roles were reversed. Imagine a white escort with the DNA of 5 unidentified men inside her proposing these various versions of her rape by three black men AND the case NOT GOING AWAY. I'm sure we would have Louis planning a million man march in Durham in Wonderland. The disingeuous nature of there persistent statements is mind boggling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-42282524226173284592007-01-12T11:18:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:18:00.000-05:00Where is Nifong? Shouldn't he have dropped all cha...Where is Nifong? Shouldn't he have dropped all charges by now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-48982845610880394522007-01-12T11:17:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:17:00.000-05:00In a December 2005 drive-by shooting on the 2100 b...In a December 2005 drive-by shooting on the 2100 block of Charles Street,(CGM the FA lived at 2111 Charles Street) shots were fired at a group of girls, just curious what the age group of these girls was and what they were doing at the time ,does anybody know? http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/122453/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-39586359661935237572007-01-12T11:07:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:07:00.000-05:00Re Michael at 10:51:
I see your point, though I'd ...Re Michael at 10:51:<br />I see your point, though I'd find it more convincing if this exchange had come up in the context of a direct "customer service" relationship--for example, if Mrs. Dowd's son had been taking a class from Ms. Holloway, or if Ms. Holloway was herself in a "customer service" position at Duke, such as in the Dean of Students' office or the like. In an ideal world, we'd all like to be able to remain polite in the face of anger--but it's pretty hard sometimes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-49633544687743282992007-01-12T11:05:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:05:00.000-05:00impoverished spirit and intellect.
Well it shoul...<i>impoverished spirit and intellect. </I><br /><br />Well it should be clear that Karla would be quite familiar with an impoverished spirit and intellect. She know of what she speaks, as she stares at one every morning in her bathroom mirror.<br /><br />I am glad she responded just as I expected she would. No contrition and not a scintilla of compassion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-50358053357332012352007-01-12T11:04:00.001-05:002007-01-12T11:04:00.001-05:00Staples 10:36
Quite telling that the NYT forum ce...Staples 10:36<br /><br />Quite telling that the NYT forum censured your comments. Doubtless the NYT web mavens would like to live in an America where all truly "inconvenient truths," i.e., those generated by someone other than Al Gore and Michael Moore, or at least no one whose views would be considered to the "right" of these distinghuished gentlemen, would not make it into any public forum. <br /><br />Do they have a policy against anonymous postings by the way? <br /><br />Or do they lay out by way of an internal link on the site any guidelines for how comments are supposed to be framed?Newyorkstateofmindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14165305454568651927noreply@blogger.com