Open Thread

Snappy,

I wrote about that last week and an Update a little earlier. Short story: there is a person in my office campaigning to eliminate the office Kris Kringle and to substitute that with contributing the money we would spend buying one another junky little gifts to an organization which would buy a YAK for a poor person (or some livestock) someone in Arizona.

I am very distressed with this idea.

Richard Feynman was outspoken left-winger.

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slopefarm,

One last post in response to your position.
I suppose, at the heart of it,
I am saying that many of the ideas that inform
the hard anti-American Left of recent years
have come out of American acedemia or have been
absorbed into it.
There is subtlety to this seemingly obvious point,
since we inherently understand that most radicals
aren’t studying things like Genetics or Physics.
In other words, where else but in the free thinking
and the economically free environment of the
Universities could such thinkers find a home and even
be fostered in their ideas.
Recent example; Columbia University and their Middle
Eastern Studies department which has uncomfortably close
ties to anti-American elements abroad.

Side note; the model of the radical is changing
as most of the threats are coming from external
sources. Seems that the majority of real anti-American
radicals today might in fact be found in the hard sciences
like the 93 WTC bomber who was busy in the Chemical Engineering dept. at Rugers before moving on to a
“higher calling”.

Innocent! BAH HA HA HA HA!

Quiet over there, DH.