CNews 31January09
The warm-up exercises have begun for the Trial of the Century, with former Colorado Governor Bill Owens among those being deposed by Ward Churchill's legal sock-puppet, the ever-popular David Lane. The Rocky and Lane make a story out of Churchill refusing to shake Owens' hand as if The Perfesser had rejected a smitten Owens' invitation to dance at the junior prom.
Update: DrunkaYournamehere had it last night, and much more funnily.
Update II: Confidential to RMN: "What a bloated sheep's bladder Chutch is" would have been a better headline. Way better.
Update III (OT, Adverb Abuse division): Some twit on FoxNews' mercilessly chipper morning show just made the following assertion: "I believe I can speak much more educatedly about this." We submit that you cannot.
CNews 29January09
OT: From our Academics Prove Quite Capable Of Stupidity Without The Perfesser's Help department: U.S. professors call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel
Update: As Klaymore suggests in the comments, what would really be helpful is for these folks to engage in an "academic and cultural boycott" of the U.S., to which suggestion we'd add hunger strike.
Update II: ...And Rev. Jeremiah Wright subtly hints at another proposed plank for the academic boycott platform—what the newspapers euphemistically refer to as "misadventure."
Update III: ...And in a largely successful attempt to lift the conversation back to academic levels, Hilda points to a rather erudite (by US public education standards, anyway) discussion of the current economic crisis [spoiler: the commentator buries his thesis, viz.: "that's some fucked-up shit"]
CNews 20January09
Drunkadoofus notes that college professor Bill "I don’t regret setting bombs" Ayers and eco-Luddite (or so says DaB) Derrick Jensen will appear in public to ballyhoo The Perfesser shortly before his Trial of the Century.
From the announcement (as posted on the latest temporary site of Churchill's dog, Benjie):
Come and hear the shocking truths behind the right-wing attacks on Churchill. Hear what they don’t want you to know!Yes. We'd like an itemized list, please.
Update: Speaking of "what they don't want you to know," Churchill's dog, Benjie his own bad self dropped by our comments section and pinched a loaf of his special brand of wisdom; a convivial time was being had by all—until, that is, I discovered he was posting via an anonymouse.org IP out of Africa (193.200.150.167). This is—as I've pointed out previously to some of Benjie's fellow Team Teabag members—a no-no. But come back, Benjie, when you're ready to let us learn the terrifyingly dangerous truth about who your ISP is.
CNews 18January09
DrunkaLint reports that someone is, at long last, ripping the lid off the whole ugly Silencing The Perfesser industry running roughshod over those sweet, sweet First Amendment rights.
CNews 12January09
OT: Facilitator-in-Chief (and longtime Ward Churchill sock puppet) Russell Means brings the full force of his intellect to bear on current events, from Obama to the US and Israel.
Excerpt:
"Every policy now the Palestinians are enduring was practiced on the American Indian,” Means said on Red Town Blog Talk Radio, hosted by Brenda Golden, Mvskoke Creek. “What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe,” Means said.
Um, Russ? It's not good when even a fan (first comment at the above link) thinks your reasoning is "frighteningly sloppy and ignorant."
Also OT: Speaking of the anti-Zionist brain trust, this rocket scientist was at the Gaza War Protest in San Francisco (excellently covered by PB contributor zombie, of course).
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CNews 5January09
Way OT: For those PB readers who feel that "9-11 Was An Inside Job" and "The Illuminati" and "There Were Two Shooters On The Grassy Knoll" lost their coolness due to over-commercialization, there's still a chance to get in on the ground floor of the latest conspiracy theory, that being "Ward Churchill is The Puppetmaster, the devil incarnate, singlehandedly responsible for all human suffering." How do we know? Snapple (long banned from this site for—well, visit her site and you'll understand what for) has opened her blog for commenting. Please do so. Rickrolling optional.
Update: In the interest of Honesty In Labeling (and the wide dissemination of same), we've added Batshit Crazy (ht ) to our "Recommended Websites." It's not, though. Recommended, that is. Unless your physician has prescribed daily full immersion in batshit crazy, in which case, look no further than Batshit Crazy.
CNews 3January09
From our With Friends Like This department: Two prominent animal rights activists exchanged emails a while back, and discussed, um, "the massive imbalance of power between humans and animals" and also found time to comment on The Perfesser:
[Norm Phelps to Steven Best] "I find nothing in A People’s History (a book I much admire) to suggest that a group with as little popular support for its goals as animal rights can accomplish anything by sabotage and violence except its own destruction. Ward Churchill’s success at depriving himself of a very important bully pulpit from which to speak out against oppression is an excellent illustration of this point. Whatever his merits as a scholar may or may not be, as an activist and strategist, he is a buffoon living in a fantasy world. How else can you describe an academic who poses for publicity photos wearing Che Guevara style camouflage and beret and holding an automatic rifle? (A Che complex is just a left-wing version of a Zorro complex.)"
