This one goes out to Ward, David, Ben and Russ:
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"Sit and mope like a dope." Perfect.
"[rttb...] provided some of the most evenhanded coverage of the Churchill affair."
Jeezus.
Lane will take the appeal on contingency. Overturning the "quasi-judicial immunity" ruling is Lane's only shot at getting paid on this deal. It's a low risk/high reward game for Lane, so he might as well go ahead. It's more in Lane's interest to appeal than Churchill's interest, because Lane has a shot at getting some big bucks. Whereas Churchill would be better off cutting his losses and agreeing not to apeal in exchange for CU agreeing not to pursue collection of legal expenses against Churchill.
That could be O'Rourke's strategy. He's cannier than I suspected.
Hmmm, interesting. Does Churchill really want to spend the rest of his life in court or preparing to be in court? Remember, he's got those four books he's been unable to work on.
Yeah, JWP, I gagged a little at that "evenhanded" too.
“…Churchill would be better off cutting his losses and agreeing not to apeal in exchange for CU agreeing not to pursue collection of legal expenses against Churchill.”
Yep, that would be the smart move. But we’re talkin' Churchill here.
“Does Churchill really want to spend the rest of his life in court or preparing to be in court?”
What else has he got? He has, enumerable times and in various places, stated that he won’t bend, won’t back down, quack, quack, quack. If he stays true to form he’ll take this bus right off the cliff. Let’s hope.
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Fred: Toonces, the ex-professor.
jgm: RttB started out fairly balanced, but as the trial progressed, the coverage got more and more one-sided. Sad, really.
Big time, c'est moi.
Oh, I totally agree that Churchill will go forward. After all, according to Natsu he is modeling his behavior here on lyrics by a heroin addict (...killing myself softly with his song, wishing my life were like his words...).
Toonces, heh. I did get the feeling that after the courtroom drama was over, Lane lost interest and let others drive the car over the cliff. The post-trial briefs were very weak, and read as if Ward and Natsu had helped draft them (don't let Toonces drive the AAAhhhaaaahhh......).
Isn't the ruling a bit ironic?
He was hired for all the wrong reasons and fired for all the right ones.
For the young'uns.
JWP: Even a decent pun, tho wrong tribe.
Yeah, I'll agree RttB was okay at the beginning, but I think they started going off the rails a little more quickly than you might.
well, maybe. The first indications might have been judgment calls from someone in the courtroom, which I wasn't, so I gave the BOD. They used that up pretty fast, tho.
“The, er, irrepressible Marc Bousquet at the Chronicle of Higher Ed's Brainstorm blog starts this way:”
What ever happened to that Max guy? Fort or Forte or something like that. The fire-breather with the certainty of a brick.
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I particularly love that Kirstein whines about open discourse and the value of dissenting opinions, and yet has comments disabled on his blog. Sweet, sweet hypocracy, served fresh daily.
Good question, Fred. He hasn't said a word about Wart since late May. Surprising, given his previous strident stupidity on the case.
K-more, America's dumbest prof has never had comments enabled. He knows the flood of mockery that would greet him. Of course, disabling comments doesn't actually help with that; we just mock him elsewhere.
Not "the death of Academic Freedom", Is "death of Academic Freedom." Russia is not suffering shortage of definite and indefinite articles, contrary to reactionary reports.
I'm enjoying myself because the clown car of Churchill-centric advocates shows no danger of delivering itself of its final buffoon.
lookat- Jerry Brown is the frontrunner to be the next governor of California.
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Not even a death sentence could reverse or erase Ward Churchill’s words. He continues to enjoy the support of thousands of us, who signed the petition that Larry Naves saw and duly ignored. We continue to buy his books and to assign his works in our classes. And, given that Ward Churchill’s essay on 11 September 2001 is what provoked the hysterical howling of people dedicated to their self-image as righteous and invincible, it will be reproduced on this blog. Ward’s 9/11 essay remains the most lucid, most honest commentary on 9/11 yet to be produced by anyone who has had the misfortune of being born in North America, and if we all agree on something, it is that we all take his work very seriously.
The law is a ass. The judge is a crook. I'll murdalize ya, all of ya.
Ironically, despite my name, I am a cunt. My bald and pointed glans-like cranium, my pubic-like beard, and my scrotum-like jowls redeem the situation to some extent.
Yeah, that passage struck me too, Dr. Phallus (hey, that's a fairly decent porn-star name).
How dare you sir. That footage I shot in Haiti was of purely anthropological interest. I participated in the ritual in order to better understand it.
Yeah, sure. Same excuse Margaret Mead used.
Hey, Dr. Max, we make up all those ancient traditions and rituals to mess with you, man. We never dream you actually write a book about it. Same about all that Trinidad stuff - they call us up and we all laugh at you together. You the dumbest white man in the Western Hemisphere. All your work be for shit. Fakey fake, man.
Where my three hundred dollar? Dem animals and concubines not grow on trees. You owe me, man.
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