tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post8399402349758342985..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: Selena's New Englishkcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-84055320061787974232007-03-29T16:40:00.000-04:002007-03-29T16:40:00.000-04:00Selena Roberts is a frumpy and dowdy gal.Writing a...Selena Roberts is a frumpy and dowdy gal.<BR/><BR/>Writing about sports and standing outside dressing rooms is about the only way she's ever going to see a hot jock with some of his clothes off.<BR/><BR/>She's also a writer who tries too hard. Sloppy and artificial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-60191855048397565362007-03-29T00:40:00.000-04:002007-03-29T00:40:00.000-04:00Houston was very prominant in the "Water Buffalo C...Houston was very prominant in the "Water Buffalo Case." Houston appears to be on a downward spiral of Universities. I like Vanderbilt and hope they do not get hurt to bad by him. Both Auburn and Clemson have given me a lot of pleasure in sport.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-83309910513956060792007-03-28T22:00:00.000-04:002007-03-28T22:00:00.000-04:00Auburn! Even people from Clemson laugh at Auburn ...Auburn! Even people from Clemson laugh at Auburn Graduates. Hey, Roberts! Get an Education!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-41056118921133304782007-03-28T14:49:00.000-04:002007-03-28T14:49:00.000-04:00Roberts is the classic example of the reason why m...Roberts is the classic example of the reason why male athletics is so attractive to some bull Lesbians: an outlet for penis envy. They define a misogynist as a man who hates every bone in a woman's body, except his, when in fact they wish they had one in there themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-10136712462484279452007-03-28T09:15:00.000-04:002007-03-28T09:15:00.000-04:00KC,I'm sure Crystal's father beleves/supports his ...KC,<BR/>I'm sure Crystal's father beleves/supports his daaughter.And Tricia Nixon believes Watergate was a mockery.<BR/> CorwinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-48332020590848572722007-03-28T07:47:00.000-04:002007-03-28T07:47:00.000-04:00Speaking of Selena's English, does anyone else fin...Speaking of Selena's English, does anyone else find it shocking that a professional writer for one of the nation's premier newspapers--the self-styled "paper of record"--would use terms with which she is obviously unfamiliar without looking them up? In <A HREF="http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2007/03/selena-on-selena.html" REL="nofollow">Selena on Selena</A> we have Selena quoted as saying, <B>"To many, the alleged crime and culture are intertwined . . . but the alleged crime and the culture are mutually exclusive."</B> This use of <I>mutually exclusive</I> is not merely incorrect in this context, but the exact opposite of what she apparently means--<I>orthogonal</I> or <I>independent</I>.<BR/><BR/>This is, I suppose, beside the point, but it does provide another example of the intellectual sloppiness that Professor Johnson has been documenting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-89572046661339268622007-03-28T00:33:00.000-04:002007-03-28T00:33:00.000-04:00"Kim Roberts’ admission that she began the racial ..."Kim Roberts’ admission that she began the racial taunts; or that none of the three accused players were even at the house by that point in time."<BR/><BR/>What do you know about Dave Evans that I don't, KC? :-)<BR/><BR/>LTC8K9Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-13403140816426277622007-03-27T23:59:00.000-04:002007-03-27T23:59:00.000-04:00By the way, KC, apparently the Official Duke Unive...By the way, KC, apparently the Official Duke University Op-ed Studies Department doesn't like <BR/>your style:<BR/><BR/>"Avoid tedious rebuttals.<BR/>If you've written your article in response to an earlier piece that made your blood boil, avoid the temptation to prepare a point-by-point rebuttal. It makes you look petty..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-65997140758992431072007-03-27T23:53:00.000-04:002007-03-27T23:53:00.000-04:00I think it's time to bounce this obvious idiot off...I think it's time to bounce this obvious idiot off the news. Since she can't see Scottsboro in reverse, why should we thinking Americans believe anything she says?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-74071491333362118042007-03-27T23:49:00.000-04:002007-03-27T23:49:00.000-04:00A slow news cycle. This is much more on Roberts t...A slow news cycle. This is much more on Roberts than she deserves. She is just not that important. <BR/><BR/>Consider reprising some past university faculty hijinks from "The Shadow University". I suspect Houston Baker was up to his eyeballs in some of the stuff reported in that book on U.Penn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-26194213262348386352007-03-27T23:43:00.000-04:002007-03-27T23:43:00.000-04:00Speaking of writers, any idea why Duke believes it...Speaking of writers, any idea why Duke believes it has to instruct its learned faculty on <A HREF="http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/duke_community/oped.html" REL="nofollow">on how to write an opinion piece?</A><BR/><BR/>The first bit of "advice" looks it's right out of the G88 handbook: <BR/><BR/>"Track the news and jump at opportunities."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-48622925516775447732007-03-27T22:48:00.000-04:002007-03-27T22:48:00.000-04:00Auburn, let's see average SAT needed for admission...<I>Auburn, let's see average SAT needed for admissions, 1005.<BR/><BR/>Duke average SAT, 1550.<BR/><BR/>Guess you'd say the Duke LAX players are 50% smarter than a fat chick from Auburn. When she graduated at Auburn the SAT average was probably under 1000.<BR/><BR/>My question is does she have a clue what dem big words she uses be meaning?<BR/><BR/>Kemp<BR/><BR/>Mar 27, 2007 8:29:00 PM</I><BR/><BR/>Gee, Kemp. You know how to hurt a guy! Actually, my undergrad is from Tennessee (not a high SAT place, either) and my doctorate is from Auburn, War Eagle.<BR/><BR/>My sense of Roberts is that she is much like Amanda Marcotte in that she always believed herself to be intellectually and morally superior to her peers and could not believe that people in her surroundings did not believe her to be God's gift to writing.<BR/><BR/>I don't read Roberts, and I quite reading Maureen Dowd a long time ago. In fact, the only reason I read the Times now is to find another stupid Paul Krugman column to provide a subject on which I can write and refute some of his economic arguments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-56023290414791107642007-03-27T22:32:00.000-04:002007-03-27T22:32:00.000-04:00I can't help but notice KC that you have it out fo...I can't help but notice KC that you have it out for Selena today. Funny though, good work KC!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-82916513185849635372007-03-27T21:57:00.000-04:002007-03-27T21:57:00.000-04:00Any one who helps fund folks such as Selena is cle...Any one who helps fund folks such as Selena is clearly contributing to making the world a considerably less desirable place. Please, folks, do not purchase the NY Times or visit its website.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-60754368983540935732007-03-27T21:52:00.000-04:002007-03-27T21:52:00.000-04:00From Wikipedia :One cartoon shows two chimpanzees ...From Wikipedia :<BR/><BR/>One cartoon shows two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a human hair on the other and inquires, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?" <BR/><BR/>The Jane Goodall Institute thought this was in bad taste, and had their lawyers draft a letter to Larson and his distribution syndicate, in which they described the cartoon as an "atrocity." <BR/><BR/>They were stymied, however, by Goodall herself, who revealed that she found the cartoon amusing. <BR/><BR/>Since then, all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon go to the Goodall Institute.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-36866651635035829392007-03-27T21:42:00.000-04:002007-03-27T21:42:00.000-04:00I thought about the "Far Side" cartoon in which a ...<I>I thought about the "Far Side" cartoon in which a female chimp is grooming a male chimp, and suddenly the female says, "What's this? A blond hair? Have you been doing more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?'"</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>God I miss that Gary Lawson guy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-76868745023386530222007-03-27T21:36:00.000-04:002007-03-27T21:36:00.000-04:00No, Selena is just dumb, mean and ugly. I think sh...No, Selena is just dumb, mean and ugly. I think she is from Wheelock U. instead of Auburn. <BR/>7:26 You are so right - I doubt these guys know how to insult anyone. The "Grandpa..." remark is to comicial to be racial. <BR/>I am most angry at Nifong, Lester Munson (who is evil and smart) and Alex Rosenberg. Explain how the mothers of the coeds have not drummed him out of Duke. Good Series KC - preordered the book today. Congradulation on Tel Aviv -Are you sure you want to go there instead of beautiful downtown Durham???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-35763484194355312782007-03-27T21:25:00.000-04:002007-03-27T21:25:00.000-04:00To 10:oopm,Are you sure you want to leave Wendy Mu...To 10:oopm,<BR/><BR/>Are you sure you want to leave Wendy Murphy off your list? I mean talk about an out and out liar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-14643143851375768382007-03-27T21:07:00.000-04:002007-03-27T21:07:00.000-04:00KC,As I was reading about all the various sites th...KC,<BR/><BR/>As I was reading about all the various sites that you said have picures of wild, sexy and naked spring break activities, I thought about the "Far Side" cartoon in which a female chimp is grooming a male chimp, and suddenly the female says, "What's this? A blond hair? Have you been doing more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?'"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-53998005658193999442007-03-27T20:57:00.000-04:002007-03-27T20:57:00.000-04:00among the religious rightWhat is gained by attacki...<B>among the religious right</B><BR/><BR/>What is gained by attacking those of us who are religious? We are committed to truth and honesty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-1255321662607845192007-03-27T20:56:00.000-04:002007-03-27T20:56:00.000-04:00I just watched a very good media analyst on Bloomb...I just watched a very good media analyst on Bloomberg who said newspapers will cease to exist within five years, that the advertisers are balking now, and that fish wrap is a poor place to advertise. There are bottom line problems at the NY Times and LA Times as well as almost every big city daily in the country. So it would seem that Ms. Roberts is simply one of the clones on the space ship headed off blindly into space not knowing or caring that she is worthless. One would think from all the commotion that people with sports brains actually read anything in the New York Times Sports Section. Like do real people read movie reviews in the Wall Street Journal? When the smoke clears Ms.Roberts will be just another stripper in the phone book.Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17094289894120872270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-30145949968235833172007-03-27T20:48:00.000-04:002007-03-27T20:48:00.000-04:00Prof. Johnson is developing a sharp eye for readin...Prof. Johnson is developing a sharp eye for reading his opponents' arguments and ferreting out the weaknesses. As he surmises here, whenever a writer says "this point is indisputible (or any synonym)", what the writer is often really saying is, "I cannot adequately defend this point, so I want to put it off-limits to any questions."<BR/><BR/>As I've said before, this case came as an apparent godsend for the Group of 88-types in academia and their allies in the powerful national media. For decades they and their intellectual forbears have been peddling what they call their "meta-narrative". Then Precious came along and told a story that was a perfect replica-in-miniature of the meta-narrative. <BR/><BR/>Now that the "micro-narrative" has been proven false, Roberts and others are desparately trying to chop it off like a gangrenous limb and claim that it has nothing to do with the larger body of their work.<BR/><BR/>They also worry that their credibility is so badly damaged that the tried and true epithets ("racist!" "sexist!" "homophobe!") that in the past substituted for evidence and logic to cut off questioning .... might not work this time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-42572760655903354772007-03-27T20:32:00.000-04:002007-03-27T20:32:00.000-04:00If your claims are global and slippery enough, the...If your claims are global and slippery enough, they <I>do</I> become more or less "irrefutable". Try to pin Selena Roberts down, to disprove her on any particular, and like a charter member of the 88 she will simply say that <I>that's</I> not what she's talking about.<BR/><BR/><I>Culture</I> is one of those words that defies precise definition, so of course Roberts just loves it. She refers to the "athlete culture", "alleged crime and culture", the "culture of misogyny", etc.<BR/><BR/>Roberts' writing shows a pattern of mendacity remarkable even for the NYT, a newspaper that with its own "culture" of studied misrepresentation of the facts. That, too, is irrefutable.Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12954323595317825201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-91417234489958918972007-03-27T20:29:00.000-04:002007-03-27T20:29:00.000-04:00I think it's close to exam time and KC has a short...I think it's close to exam time and KC has a short fuse, but a good Bit*h slapping is certainly in order for this scallywag.<BR/><BR/>Auburn, let's see average SAT needed for admissions, 1005.<BR/><BR/>Duke average SAT, 1550.<BR/><BR/>Guess you'd say the Duke LAX players are 50% smarter than a fat chick from Auburn. When she graduated at Auburn the SAT average was probably under 1000.<BR/><BR/>My question is does she have a clue what dem big words she uses be meaning?<BR/><BR/>KempAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-38005348422790721742007-03-27T20:27:00.001-04:002007-03-27T20:27:00.001-04:00Keep 'em coming KC. Glad to see others agree on j...Keep 'em coming KC. Glad to see others agree on just how bad Selena's column was. I mean it was history making.<BR/><BR/>Bill Waltons 21 for 22 shooting in the final against Memphis State has finally been topped.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com