tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post7882976739199404631..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: Week in Reviewkcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-87212702254226996952007-08-26T17:28:00.000-04:002007-08-26T17:28:00.000-04:003:02KC's been pretty understated, actually. And t...3:02<BR/><BR/>KC's been pretty understated, actually. <BR/><BR/>And the "out for blood" comment is really funny, considering your apparent lack of animus toward those who think that civil rights don't apply to students, especially "privileved white male students," the kind who are endowed with a special gift of "sexual prowess," as noted by Grant "Prowess Envy" Farred.<BR/>And, of course, you likely agree with those who think that because the accused are "farm animals," they are somehow less-than-human. <BR/><BR/>Hmmm. You must have really plowed the pages to come up with those zingers about KC! Hard to find dirt that actually sticks, isn't it?machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248016116043347912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-91692720732471571702007-08-26T03:02:00.000-04:002007-08-26T03:02:00.000-04:00KC//You're losing it. No one thinks you are respo...KC//You're losing it. No one thinks you are responsible for what is said in any and all posts. You are, however, responsible for leaving up offensive posts (I don't mean troll, which is stupid, but you left up "bitch" for awhile awa posts that are clearly offensive.) You are also responsible for not having checked sources in late July when you were hoaxed. <BR/><BR/>Are your entries about faculty--not only the 88--biased to support arguments you want to make? You bet. IMHO, you'd've done better if you hadn't been so out for blood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-11530495590913032602007-08-25T09:47:00.000-04:002007-08-25T09:47:00.000-04:00To 9:05AM--You're not even remotely amusing.Who ar...To 9:05AM--<BR/><BR/>You're not even remotely amusing.<BR/><BR/>Who are you, the Santa from New England's lackey?Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-3373472972084547272007-08-25T09:05:00.000-04:002007-08-25T09:05:00.000-04:00Thanks KC!Looking forward to your Profile on Chafe...Thanks KC!<BR/><BR/>Looking forward to your Profile on Chafe.<BR/><BR/>If only you had access to those secret records of all the unreproted rapes he is aware of. <BR/><BR/>At the minimum, it would let you know how many crimes he and his associates have withheld from reporting. A record that would allow prospective students to determine which school to not attend, due to concerns for their own safety!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-51124165864468717542007-08-25T08:35:00.000-04:002007-08-25T08:35:00.000-04:00Anonymous 10:20 AM - To the 7:30, what possible re...Anonymous 10:20 AM - <I>To the 7:30, what possible relevance could the statistics of 3 white men raping a black woman have? Perhaps you should reconsider and ask about the number of times a black woman has falsely accused 3 white men. <BR/><BR/>The point is- rape statistics have no relevance here whatsoever. Does anyone need to hear it again? THERE WAS NO RAPE!!</I><BR/><BR/>You don't understand either statistics or the fact that many are arguing that outside stats, human psychology is such that no way would 46 people of passing acquaintance, their parents, or their lawyers EVER risk felony convictions haunting their lives for covering up a major crime.<BR/><BR/>Those with analytical skills knew by the 1st week that the 46 accused were almost certainly innocent on just the cover-up. My cousin, a highly regarded detective in Missouri, said by week two, not only were the Duke players 100% without a doubt innocent because no such conspiracy had ever lasted - not even in tight gangs - and 100% convinced that the cops and DA must be corrupt.<BR/><BR/>You shut off your brain when you rant about how statistics don't matter. Because they were innocent! innocent! innocent!<BR/><BR/>No, because important people whose job it is to assess probabilities - like Judge Stevens, SGT GOttlieb, Nifong, Broadhead, the 88 well-paid faculty inc. some with stats, law enforcement, racial history, woman's studies teaching duties should know probabilities:<BR/><BR/>1. Chances a fat plain, smelly and drugged up black woman would be raped by 3 guys with attractive GFs and miles above her class in life?<BR/><BR/>2. That they would do so impromptu in front of 25 witnesses? <BR/><BR/>3. That the 25 witnesses, without meeting, would individually enter into a conspiracy to deny they saw a rape going down?<BR/><BR/>4. Given rape stats that black women are gang-raped by whites once every 7-10 years or so and always whites of the black woman's socioeconomic strata?<BR/><BR/>5. That the woman told wildly inconsistent stories and was a junkie prostitute who lies for a living, <B>HAD PREVIOUSLY FALSELY ACCUSED 3 BLACK MEN OF GANG RAPING HER</B>, had an extensive criminal record and was dumped out of the Navy on morals??<BR/><BR/>Please, be as emotional as you want, but go vent in a corner while more logical, analytical people continue to rake the supposedly smart people at Duke, the media, and law enforcement over the coals for their bigotry and lack of common sense and ability to think clearly.<BR/><BR/>And the same goes for idiots that insist that they cannot assess the truth - "Only a jury can do that". They are morons, too. A preposterous story is just that.<BR/><BR/>Back in May 2006, I compared it to the likelihood that a woman caught in other lies showing up late for work showing me a big bruise on her arm and telling me she was hit by a meteor.<BR/><BR/>I would suspend her. Mainly for lying. In recorded history, one person was hit by a meteor. A woman in Alabama back in the 50s that had a 6-lb meteor punch through her roof, 2nd floor, and hit her thigh hard enough she was hospitalized for many days.Cedarfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00602418702398818596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-24728938290504606892007-08-25T03:36:00.000-04:002007-08-25T03:36:00.000-04:0012:28Talisher & Oban are owned by the same Japanes...12:28<BR/><BR/>Talisher & Oban are owned by the same Japanese company, I think. Talisher is generally considered to be rougher & perhaps more valued as a result. You can get both of them--and several others--at a good price when you tour the Oban distillery. Worth a trip.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-51941540111213917602007-08-25T01:12:00.000-04:002007-08-25T01:12:00.000-04:00TO 12:51AM--No, I didn't see it. I sometimes check...TO 12:51AM--<BR/><BR/>No, I didn't see it. I sometimes check out the WSJ excerpts in the N&O; however, for the last week, I've only skimmed the print edition for lack of time.<BR/><BR/>I'm lost in <I>Wonderland</I> until the gates are locked. People in my social circle--the few that there are--know that I am not available for socializing very much until this is over.<BR/><BR/>LOL!<BR/><BR/>On the point of schools being dumbed down, I think Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School is supposed to be one of the worst.Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-6211918912430402372007-08-25T00:51:00.000-04:002007-08-25T00:51:00.000-04:00Debrahinre Anderson's comment: Did you read Friday...Debrah<BR/><BR/>inre Anderson's comment: Did you read Friday's Wall Street Journal? Devastating article about dumbing down of elite law schools. Author maintains there is a full 2-SD difference between affirmative-action admits and meritorious ones. The G88 wants that trend to continue.<BR/><BR/>God bless their pointed little heads!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-2839183778842984052007-08-25T00:35:00.000-04:002007-08-25T00:35:00.000-04:00Professor Anderson presents it short and sweet:I c...Professor Anderson presents it short and sweet:<BR/><BR/><I>I cannot cut them slack because the damage they have done is not limited to false accusations of rape against innocent people. These people will not be satisfied until they have destroyed the entire edifice of higher education.</I>Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-19613138662328840372007-08-25T00:28:00.000-04:002007-08-25T00:28:00.000-04:00InmanWhat do you think of Talisher and Oban single...Inman<BR/><BR/>What do you think of Talisher and Oban single malts? I think those 2 are the # 1, 2 in single malts.<BR/><BR/>Glenmorangie 18 yrs old is wonderful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-54129694419519304792007-08-25T00:18:00.000-04:002007-08-25T00:18:00.000-04:00no justice, no peace said... "...Perhaps, at some ...<I><BR/><B>no justice, no peace said... </B><BR/>"...Perhaps, at some point, it would be wise to inform these ladies about the FBI’s rape statistics.”<BR/><BR/>He's spot-on with each of these three comments, only in the wrong context.<BR/><BR/>One wonders what the actual FBI number is for three white men raping one black woman. How many times does that crime occur each year? Maybe the girls team should look those numbers up and send them to Mr. Smith. <BR/><BR/>8/24/07 7:30 AM <BR/></I><BR/><BR/>That reminds me of the Hamilton Challenge, offered in this and other forums on occasion: Find the last time white men were convicted of a multiple offender rape of a black woman. (I have one answer, but maybe someone has a better one.)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, NJNP, by raising FBI statistics differently than Stephen A. Smith did, you've proved yourself to be a racist. If you don't believe me, ask any 88ist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-51079076636594764692007-08-24T22:44:00.001-04:002007-08-24T22:44:00.001-04:00Anonymous @8:54AM said... I find it interesting th...Anonymous @8:54AM said... <BR/><I>I find it interesting that a blog dedicated to pointing out the rush to judgment of the lacrosse players largely facilitates a rush to judge members of the group of 88. Food for thought folks.</I> <BR/><BR/>Rush to judgement? More than a year after the G88's ad? Which is worse? A rush to judgement based on collective, class guilt? Or a lengthy examination of provable error, incompetance and intransigence?<BR/><BR/>The G88 are little different to the inquisitors, witch hunters and lynchers of the past. The methods of torture may be a little more subtle but the damage spreads far wider.<BR/><BR/>Anonymous @3:53PM said... <BR/><I>Hector my students? You bet. To do well, to write well, to complete their reading, to keep their mobile phones off, to be on time, to analyze well, to use spell check, to be polite to each other when they discuss. And probably ten other things.</I><BR/><BR/>Good for you. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately some of the G88 took it upon themselves to attack lacrosse team members in their classrooms and in front of their peers. One has been proven to have marked(and failed) students on their affilliations rather than their scholarship. <BR/><BR/>Do you support their behaviour?<BR/><BR/>Anonymous @3:53PM, possible attempting satire, said... <BR/><I>Why would you ask me any of the questions you did at the end of your post? Where were you raised? In a barn? Didn't your parents teach you not to attack people? </I><BR/><BR/>Oh the irony.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-65112698405169570002007-08-24T22:11:00.000-04:002007-08-24T22:11:00.000-04:00Steve H: Re your 5:29 post; you have morphed the o...Steve H: Re your 5:29 post; you have morphed the original point into obscurity. What we were talking about was whether the 88 should get a free pass as first time offenders. The point that I made, and that One Spook followed up on, is that out here in the real world, a screw up of the magnitude of the 88's would warrant severe reprisals, perhaps dismissal. You construct your reality through the lens of the protections afforded tenured professors. Such is not the case for the rest of us. My tenure is my performance TODAY. If I screwed up only half as bad as the 88, I'd have my desk cleared out by sundown. So, your nit-picking at One Spook's analogies is misplaced.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-51909784849586127222007-08-24T22:04:00.000-04:002007-08-24T22:04:00.000-04:005:27 PMDear Debra,This quoted sophomorone, unlike ...5:27 PM<BR/><BR/>Dear Debra,<BR/><BR/>This quoted sophomorone, unlike myself, cannot discuss anything without abusing people and putting them down (hope you liked my unique discription of abilities thank you . . . thank you very much).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-57182397793978156822007-08-24T22:00:00.000-04:002007-08-24T22:00:00.000-04:00It wasn't just that the lacrosse players were indi...It wasn't just that the lacrosse players were indicted for a crime that they didn't commit as much as all of those in positions of power didn't think their innocence mattered or that if it did matter all of those standing against the indicted three could have their way regardless of any argument or fact or facts to the contrary. These people more than having sheer gall wanted, and thought they had, unlimited and absolute power. It was and is absolutely shameful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-15790023130318363652007-08-24T21:51:00.000-04:002007-08-24T21:51:00.000-04:00Hotness Total: 0 Says it allHotness Total: 0 <BR/><BR/>Says it allAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-22973473716579904802007-08-24T20:44:00.001-04:002007-08-24T20:44:00.001-04:00Steven Horwitz,Perhaps you aren't aware of how eas...Steven Horwitz,<BR/><BR/>Perhaps you aren't aware of how easy it is to get fired in most businesses? (nowadays, they call it "being laid off," but the effect is just the same.)<BR/><BR/>Have you ever worked in a job where people were easily fired? Why should people who cite "academic freedom" be so very different from other, ordinary Americans? Before you answer that question - tell me: have you ever been an employer?<BR/><BR/>I have, and I'll tell you this: if my employee(s) treated their customers the way the 88 treated the accused students, they'd have been out the door, and quickly. Businesses go under when customer service sucks.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps it would be a good time to note that the students in higer education - (yes, even higher education) - are the consumers and the instructors are the service-providers.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248016116043347912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-44697050451743349492007-08-24T20:44:00.000-04:002007-08-24T20:44:00.000-04:00The evil that men do lives after them; the good is...The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones....W. Shakespeare<BR/><BR/>Do the K-88 live in some fantasy-land where no one is held accountable for their actions? Is that the point of tenure? Please don't tell me they were just expressing an opinion. Their aim was to destroy these young men and they darn near succeeded.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-11930515330592924252007-08-24T20:11:00.000-04:002007-08-24T20:11:00.000-04:00Sign me,Troll, since that's what most of you call ...<I>Sign me,<BR/><BR/>Troll, since that's what most of you call people who disagree with you.</I><BR/><BR/>It's <I>definitely</I> what we call people who have nothing to offer in their comments except uncheckable claims and ad hominem comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-77717685508270527802007-08-24T20:01:00.000-04:002007-08-24T20:01:00.000-04:00AF 5:31,You'll never get "tree-fitty-one" to answe...AF 5:31,<BR/>You'll never get "tree-fitty-one" to answer some basic questions, such as these:<BR/><BR/>Is grade retaliation - the same kind of grade retaliation as Kim Curtis practiced - permissable?<BR/><BR/>Was it a good idea for the "listening statement" to be published before the DNA evidence was scrutinized?<BR/><BR/>Is it a good thing that the 88 signatories have - with few exceptions - refused to apologize?<BR/><BR/>Those are just a few - and they are redundant. How many times have we asked them, how many times do we need to ask them, and how many times do anon posters avoid answering them? <BR/>Answer:<BR/>Tree-fitty-one is like so many of the trollsters: all they do is stop by to set an IED or two.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248016116043347912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-68954848060686558672007-08-24T19:26:00.000-04:002007-08-24T19:26:00.000-04:00Spook @ 4:51Thank you. Honor cannot be taught, it...Spook @ 4:51<BR/><BR/>Thank you. Honor cannot be taught, it's earnedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-70383718071758922362007-08-24T19:20:00.000-04:002007-08-24T19:20:00.000-04:008:54I find it interesting that a blog dedicated to...8:54<BR/><BR/><I>I find it interesting that a blog dedicated to pointing out the rush to judgment of the lacrosse players largely facilitates a rush to judge members of the group of 88. Food for thought folks.</I><BR/><BR/>No thanks, I'm not hungry. And I don't buy this attempt at turning the tables. There's no rush here, there's validation and support for the judgements. <BR/><BR/>Or haven't you been paying attention?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-39689699216014750062007-08-24T18:51:00.000-04:002007-08-24T18:51:00.000-04:004:18//KC,I know you're not a dimwit, but try again...4:18//KC,<BR/><BR/>I know you're not a dimwit, but try again. I was responding to an anonymous who told me my classes were half full. He told me this anonymously. I corrected him anonymously. <BR/><BR/>Why does this bother you? It's your blog, you can tell everyone as much about yourself as you like. Fools' names like fool's faces...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-39883972632657776142007-08-24T18:22:00.000-04:002007-08-24T18:22:00.000-04:001:44, I'll assume then that you have no problem wi...1:44, I'll assume then that you have no problem with the continued employment of Kim Curtis. I am with you, she is absolutely fantastic....and a real looker too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-79889054257904836422007-08-24T17:31:00.000-04:002007-08-24T17:31:00.000-04:00Troll @ 3:51What classes of yours are full? Are y...Troll @ 3:51<BR/><BR/>What classes of yours are full? Are you one of those who teaches a "mandatory" freshman course? Do your classes really have relevance in our world or only in the world of the angry?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com