Posted on 07/22/2007 10:24:53 PM PDT by goldstategop
Yeah, heaven forbid they should actually read or learn something they didn’t read or learn in school.
Ha Ha! I know it! I did 15 years in the Army and THEN went to college and got my degree in Business. I wanted to grab every professor..
I met one or two Conservatives teaching, but by far and large, it was the tired old liberals spewing forth their tired old talking points. I used to argue, but then I just got tired of it.
Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand three hundred days.
Profession: none, or “starlet”
Where are you hiding, Dolores Haze?
Why are you hiding, darling?
(I Talk in a daze, I walk in a maze
I cannot get out, said the starling).
Where are you riding, Dolores Haze?
What make is the magic carpet?
Is a Cream Cougar the present craze?
And where are you parked, my car pet?
Who is your hero, Dolores Haze?
Still one of those blue-capped star-men?
Oh the balmy days and the palmy bays,
And the cars, and the bars, my Carmen!
Oh Dolores, that juke-box hurts!
Are you still dancin’, darlin’?
(Both in worn levis, both in torn T-shirts,
And I, in my corner, snarlin’).
Happy, happy is gnarled McFate
Touring the States with a child wife,
Plowing his Molly in every State
Among the protected wild life.
My Dolly, my folly! Her eyes were vair,
And never closed when I kissed her.
Know an old perfume called Soliel Vert?
Are you from Paris, mister?
L’autre soir un air froid d’opera m’alita;
Son fele — bien fol est qui s’y fie!
Il neige, le decor s’ecroule, Lolita!
Lolita, qu’ai-je fait de ta vie?
Dying, dying, Lolita Haze,
Of hate and remorse, I’m dying.
And again my hairy fist I raise,
And again I hear you crying.
Officer, officer, there they go—
In the rain, where that lighted store is!
And her socks are white, and I love her so,
And her name is Haze, Dolores.
Officer, officer, there they are—
Dolores Haze and her lover!
Whip out your gun and follow that car.
Now tumble out and take cover.
Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Her dream-gray gaze never flinches.
Ninety pounds is all she weighs
With a height of sixty inches.
My car is limping, Dolores Haze,
And the last long lap is the hardest,
And I shall be dumped where the weed decays,
And the rest is rust and stardust.
Very cool article. I didn’t know Chucky was writing a column. I checked out the other ones and was really impressed. http://www.wnd.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=274
I prefer this version by Jimi Humbert Hendrix
Dolores Haze was in my brain,
lately things don’t seem the same,
actin’ funny but I don’t know why
‘scuse me while I kiss the sky.
Dolores Haze all around,
don’t know if I’m coming up or down.
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me.
Dolores Haze was in my eyes,
don’t know if it’s day or night,
you’ve got me blowing, blowing my mind
is it tomorrow or just the end of time?
That's not the point. Quotes should always be attributed.
We did Hamlet in high school.
Ah, but can you name the opera to whose music the "Gilligan's Island" castaways set "Hamlet?" It was Bizet's "Carmen."
There, I've just proved that I am both culturally literate and culturally illiterate.
We did Hamlet in high school.
This is neither the time or the place for sexual confessions of your youth.
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Seems the profs HATED engineers and loved to flunk us. So we technically stopped being engineering students for a year, got our A's (the courses were pud, full of business and liberal arts majors who did a great job of holding up the bottom of the curve.) In their favor at least those classes had girls in them.
color me immature, i laughed my behind off at your post ; )
Well, who am I to criticize if some people like a little Danish...But the real question is: was he any good? I mean, was he a great dane?
The barbarians are not only in the gates, they are running the city and are now feeding the Christians to the lions ....
Someone linked to this website, which in turn has this tidbit:
http://www.thefire.org/
“After a months-long campaign led by FIRE, the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) has reached a settlement with Professor Walter Kehowski, allowing him to return to teaching classes in the fall. In March, Kehowski was placed on forced administrative leave and faced possible termination because he e-mailed George Washington’s Thanksgiving address to the MCCCD community last November. Kehowski found the address on Pat Buchanan’s website and linked to the site, where Buchanan also discussed his views on immigration and other topics, in the e-mail. Some MCCCD employees were offended, and Kehowski was charged with violating district policies. A confidentiality agreement prohibits either side from discussing the details of the settlement, but Kehowski affirms that he is satisfied with the outcome...”
Emailing the words of our First President is now a firing offense?!?!
“P.S. I was in a checkout line the other night and the clerk noticed .... went on to how they talk about MB in Rock and Roll class at the local college.”
With that kind of “education”, this man is now qualified to ... continue to be a clerk.
The Liberal Arts is dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Killed by the post-modernist Left. No matter. The University is becoming obsolete anyway. The Liberal Arts originally representing knowledge of the high Middle Ages. As time progressed, science and the ‘humanities’ became more distinct, the latter becoming, since the time of Buckley’s ‘God and Man at Yale’, a cesspool of cultural antagonism towards freedom, civility, and traditional mores. In other words, the left ruined it.
All those classics that the University refuses to teach while they are teaching good time rock-n-roll? You can get them all in the Gutenberg project files - for free. consider the possibility that literally thousands of textbooks are now available for free via bitTorrent, and hours of lecture are becoming more available over time, for free. It’s a bizarro world where the product sold by elite universities is substantively cr*p, but the ‘prestige’ goes far beyond the reality now.
Want to learn something? The last place to look would be a University or College; on the internet is any useful or useless fact you can to pick up. Want to pick up knowledge? There is no ‘knowledge’ in the hollowed out shell of the post-modernist humanities, just a jumble of incoherent and false marxist dialectis mixed with ‘decontructivist’ attacks on the concept of knowledge itself. The University is now fully close-minded to all the core cultural values that sustain our civilization.
Chuck Norris is right. unless you are seeking the specific professional skill education to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer, or unless you are studying science or math, you will not get much of value from the university. If you buy a humanities education in all but a few select schools , you are simply funding marxist professors to rant and propagandize. find a way to get a basic ‘core curriculum’ on the cheap, via internet-based distance learning, and save the $100,000 and give it to your kid to start a business.
He's a clean cut, articulate guy, I neglected to ask his area of study, so I can't comment on his future. But he didn't strike me as the pants down around the butt type, going home and smoking.. whatever, and smacking around his ho.
And while it was funny at the time, I can see some study of pop culture being relevant. And as loath as I am to admit it; the golden era of rock and roll did have a profound impact (for good and bad) on history, and here's the part I loath; that era is far enough back to be considered history today.
Thankfully, it is not yet "ancient" history.
But you're right, I'd like to see more of the classics taught. After all, our founders were classically educated, and it would seem to me that having a good understanding of the world that came before, will help us to keep the world we have built.
hamlet’s good, but do we remember where this little tidbit came from ...
“mom always said, don’t play ball in the house.”
teeman
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