We Absolutely Must Defund the "Universities"

A trans professor -- we're already off to a great start -- failed a student for disagreeing with him that trans women are women (snap!)

A freshman at the University of Oklahoma says she was punished in the classroom not for poor writing or missed instructions, but for quoting Scripture -- and now the school is scrambling to contain the fallout.
On Sunday, officials in Norman confirmed they had placed a graduate instructor on administrative leave after 19-year-old Samantha Fulnecky filed a complaint alleging she was failed on an essay because she cited the Bible to defend traditional gender roles. The instructor, identified in university records as Mel Curth -- a biological male who identifies as a woman -- gave her zero out of 25 points on a psychology assignment that asked students to respond to an article about how society perceives gender.
Fulnecky told The Oklahoman that she argued gender isn't a social invention at all, but part of God's design. She quoted Genesis directly: "God says that it is not good for man to be alone, so He created a helper for man (which is a woman)." She even went deeper into the Hebrew, explaining that ezer kenegdo doesn't mean a subordinate assistant but "helper equal to," a description the Bible also uses for God Himself. In her view, rejecting the concept of gender erases moral truth: "Eliminating gender in our society would be detrimental, as it pulls us farther from God's original plan for humans."
Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive." Fulnecky pushed back, noting the prompt never required empirical sourcing and that university policy explicitly protects religious expression. "To be what I think is clearly discriminated against for my beliefs and using freedom of speech, and especially for my religious beliefs, I think that's just absurd," she told the paper.
The university appeared to sense the legal danger immediately. In a Sunday post on X, OU said it "takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms," and stressed that once Fulnecky complained, the school "acted swiftly to address the matter." Officials said she was contacted the same day they received her letter and that a formal grade-appeal process "resulted in steps to ensure no academic harm to the student." The school also confirmed that its discrimination review process -- the one specifically designed for cases involving alleged violations of religious liberty -- "has been activated."
Most notably, OU announced that Curth had been pulled from the classroom pending the outcome of the investigation and replaced by a full-time professor to "ensure fairness."

90% of college dummies believe that "words can be violence."

Which then leads to the conclusion favored by Marxists: And you can use actual violence to stop "word violence."

Nine out of ten undergraduate students think that "words can be violence" at least "somewhat," according to a new Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression survey.
The poll also showed that ideological gaps between left-leaning and right-leaning students are widening.
When respondents were asked how much the statement "words can be violence" describes their thoughts, 47 percent answered with "completely" or "mostly." Twenty-eight percent said it describes their thoughts "somewhat," and 15 percent said "slightly."
Additionally, around 59 percent of students said "silence is violence" describes their views at least "somewhat," though only 28 percent said it describes their thoughts "completely" or "mostly."
"When people start thinking that words can be violence, violence becomes an acceptable response to words," FIRE Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens said in a news release following the poll.
"Even after the murder of Charlie Kirk at a speaking event, college students think that someone's words can be a threat. This is antithetical to a free and open society, where words are the best alternative to political violence," Stevens said.
The poll also showed that moderate and conservative students have grown less supportive of disruptive or violent tactics to stop campus speakers, while liberal students' support for those tactics has stayed the same or risen slightly compared to the spring.
At the same time, moderate and conservative students have become more open to allowing controversial speakers, while liberal students have maintained or increased their opposition to those speakers.

Not coincidentally, Americans now understand that paying for a four year degree in Transgender Studies -- and all colleges now teach is Transgender Studies of various flavors, like Science Transgender Studies, Law Transgender Studies, Math Transgender Studies, etc. -- is an "expensive scam."

More Americans are wising up to the fact that higher education has become a raw deal for all too many young people.
A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn't worth it, since many students graduate with "a large amount of debt" but no "specific job skills."
That's up markedly from 2013, when a majority took the opposite view, as 53% called a degree "worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime."
That was the case for generations of Americans, who saw college as a key step to higher-paying jobs and a better life: "Upwardly mobile" was almost entirely synonymous with "college-educated."
But over the last few decades, the dynamic has shifted: Far too many college degrees guarantee nothing ... except onerous debt.
Tuition costs have skyrocketed, doubling over the last 20 years (a redoubling from two decades earlier), as universities jacked up prices to match increased "help" such as federal aid and ever-larger government-facilitated student loans.
But in return for 70 grand or more a year, students today too often don't get prepared for a lucrative or even stable career.
Countless colleges have transformed into woke indoctrination factories that churn out grads with liberal arts degrees and zero specialized skills.
A report last year found that two-thirds of colleges require DEI-related courses to graduate, offering classes like "Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society" and "Abolition of Whiteness."
Why take on huge debt to be pummeled nonstop with identity politics?
Meanwhile, grade inflation and faculties increasingly dominated by leftist ideologues reduce the return even on "real" classes.
Plus, a rapidly changing economy is making white-collar jobs an increasingly unsafe bet.
Prospective students once could safely bet that a hard science or math degree was a sure winner, but the rise of AI is already wiping out options for recent grads in countless sectors, including tech.
Americans have noticed: College enrollment has plummeted these last few years, while numbers of Gen Zers are eyeing high-paying, high-demand careers as welders, plumbers and electricians.
Trade school was once stigmatized as a less-appealing option than the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, but a less expensive, more focused education that teaches a highly valuable skill now often seems the far wiser choice.

This is the "science" that we are now paying universities to produce.

🚨BREAKING: @Nature has just published one of the most insane papers imaginable. In woke studies, “feminist queer crip theory” leads the pack in terms of derangement.

But Nature has now embraced it, publishing an autoethnographic paper about “crip guts,” “queer stoma pride,” the… pic.twitter.com/MdprVLEMzR
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 1, 2025

The word "stoma" means an opening in the body, particularly in the digestive tract. I think They/Them means the anus, because the "pride" this pyrsyn wants to discuss is the pride in They/Them's queer poop.

No, that's not a joke, that's what the paper is about.

The retard wrote a paper about how They/Them has "crip guts" and can't shit straight and all the world needs to know about that and that will upend how we practice colonialist Western science.

Colin Wright
@SwipeWright
BREAKING: @Nature has just published one of the most insane papers imaginable. In woke studies, "feminist queer crip theory" leads the pack in terms of derangement.
But Nature has now embraced it, publishing an autoethnographic paper about "crip guts," "queer stoma pride," the "intergenerational trauma" inflicted upon the author's guts by "British colonialism in Ireland," and how crip guts bestow people with "situated ways of knowing" that undermines "Western biomedical models of knowledge production."
A real quote from the paper:
"I was processing some memories around my gut condition and became overwhelmed with sadness and grief. It felt ridiculous explaining to the (English) therapist what had come up because the only way I could describe it was famine grief. The Irish Famine of the 1800s is of course before my time, but in that therapy session I felt overwhelmed with a grief that felt larger than my own. I made sense of this feeling through the framework of intergenerational trauma and described it as feeling the pain of the famine lingering in my guts."
The author calls for "queer stoma pride," which celebrates "the leakiness of bodies which disrupt boundaries" and "requires more collective and relational modes of knowledge production which value embodied experiential knowledge, holistic healing, and reject the idea that normality is a neutral desirable location." It further "focuses on imaginings of alternative, more expansive bodily futures which foreground agency and a joyous plurality of bodies beyond category, refusing the idea that non-normative bodies are a site of unwantedness."
She hopes that the concept of "crip guts" will "disrupt epistemic injustice and challenge Western biomedical models of knowledge production," though she gives no concrete instructions about how that looks in practice.
Ultimately, she says "queer stoma pride" is "about talking about poop at conferences and in journal articles," and "revelling in not being normal, being unexpected or disruptive, and rejecting colonial, queerphobic and ableist discourses around returning to normal, passing as normal, and aiming for normal, as if normal was ever a good thing."

BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.

Best time of the week!!!!

Posted by: Ace at 02:30 PM

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1 not, but maybe

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:31 PM (enw9G)

2 OOH! will nood

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (enw9G)

3 this was part of the week in woke but there was so much about colleges I thought it made sense to split it off as its own post.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (1wjle)

4 done

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (enw9G)

5
The modern University is nothing more than indoctrination camps that you pay big $$$ to participate in.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (IifOV)

6 Eff them then.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (ynBxV)

7 Most of what they teach isn't even true.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:34 PM (ynBxV)

8 I am glad I graduated from UT, Knoxville, in the late 90s. It was the age of Peyton Manning, and the not-yet Woke.

Posted by: jmel at December 05, 2025 02:34 PM (RWHIh)

9 Tried to read the content, but it wasn't for me...

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 05, 2025 02:34 PM (yghV0)

10 Unless you're in the plant kingdom, you ain't got a stoma. You got a hole.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (JwNbV)

11 90% of college dummies believe that "words can be violence."

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And that burning, looting, murdering, and raping is protected speech.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (zbgwO)

12 The crip guts individual is a natural market for the poop camera.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (0cOaq)

13 Mostlt peacefull insurrection.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (ynBxV)

14 I knew the difference between women and men when I was a kid. Nothing has happened in the past 75 years to change my mind.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (i+bC1)

15 Fortunately Villanova set the precedent that you can sue the capital-tee Tits off of a university if they do something so asinine that it makes any recent alumni's degree worthless.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (JwNbV)

16 I'm all for defunding the Universities, all except 'Bamboo Studies' as that is clearly vital to our modern understanding of everything.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (xcxpd)

17 For the life of me I can’t understand why Trump wants to “save” the universities by flooding them with Chinese spies, and corporate IP thieves, AKA “students”.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (I2y5H)

18 This just in, sticks and stones break bones, and so do nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, prepositions conjunctions and articles.

Posted by: Serious News Reported Seriously by Kenneth at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (h+S+G)

19 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

20 Sometimes I think this bullshit happens because the Left pushed "Queer" so hard that it wasn't "Special" anymore, and so now weirdos have to make up new "Pride" designations for the grossest shit in order to "Reclaim" their "Specialness".

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (UnA8+)

21
Old: Sticks & Stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

New: OMG! The Words they BURN!!!

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (IifOV)

22 It's gibberish, and I'm being generous.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (pDt9x)

23 Pol Pot 'got it' when it came to the Universities.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (DeNdk)

24 My God there’s a preponderance of mental illness surrounding colleges and universities.

Yikes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (W2Pud)

25 We collect the wages of allowing 'hate speech' to be a thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

26 This is so disgusting.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (vZUXb)

27 Iv'e been watching Stranger Things.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (ynBxV)

28 I have 3 daughters. The first went for 2 years at a traditional university. I pulled her out, and sent her and her sisters to a community college where they earned bachelors or associate degress, but even more importantly they earned "certificates, certs" in various medical fields. To my delight they all have ~$50K/year JOBS in the medical field and NO debt!

Mike Rowe is a VISIONARY, and we need to be directing our children into CAREER enhancing education!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (e/Osv)

29 The raving of lunatics.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (pDt9x)

30 Rocky Top!!! 🎵

Posted by: Does this helmut make my forehead look big at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (h+S+G)

31 People who thing "words can be violence" have never been punched in the face.

I can fix that.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (1ZMNP)

32 Wasn't it said yesterday that 42% of university students are considered handicap or special needs?

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)

33 Reform the universities from orbit.

Posted by: Kingsman at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (ehY6c)

34 12 The crip guts individual is a natural market for the poop camera.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (0cOaq)

This is the same as when Dan Savage started the whole "You're not really gay if you don't intentionally contract AIDS" shit.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (UnA8+)

35 I'm not a fan of bulllying, but one of the downsides to so-called anti-bullying efforts, zero-tolerance school violence policies etc. is that people don't get the public ass-whuppings they and everyone else around them need. Because you know who thinks words are violence, soychildren who've never been punched in the face or been in close proximity.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)

36 32 Wasn't it said yesterday that 42% of university students are considered handicap or special needs?
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)

41.

That's the funny Troon Suicide number.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:40 PM (UnA8+)

37 This is what happens to any institution when it has no boundaries to keep insane leftists from being employed.

Higher ed is just farther along than many other institutions though I think the mass media is in a virtual tie with academia for employing bat shit crazy moonbats that reject objective reality as the rest of us know it.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:40 PM (WDjG6)

38
Reminder: for a very brief 5 days, the Left pretended it was for "free speech." During the jimmy kimmel bullshit, it was all about "free speech." Remember?

And I said, at the time: This would be a great time for students to go to school wearing "trannies are freaks" t-shirts.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (O2XQw)

39 I'm glad I teach business classes...not quite so insane there. But bad enough.
I did ask my students to identify one famous person they have met. Answers were as about you'd expect...mom, dad, a senator, etc. I then told mine, who was Charles Lindberg. Not a single student (and these were mainly juniors, knew who that was.
Sadz.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (2WIwB)

40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

41 I believe in SCIENCE.
XX XY!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (NpAcC)

42 The "crips" mention reminded me of this safety video for anyone who drives people for hire; not my thing for making xtra munny, but after this came in 'viewing suggestions,' I fer sur doan bee gonna.

https://tinyurl.com/54max7fh

Posted by: ju at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (EgpoY)

43 I think most people - including most parents - must know how worthless a university education is today (with some important exceptions: genuine science and engineering, medicine, certain areas of the law, accounting, some of the business-related education, etc). They (the parents, anyway) are simply paying for credentials for their kids, passports to the halls of power and influence, where they will eventually learn, on the job, the finer points of lying, corruption, back-stabbing and woke politics for fun and profit.

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (mADJX)

44 Math Transgender Studies

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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (zbgwO)

45 40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

Dream on, white boy.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (UnA8+)

46
BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.

Best time of the week!!!!

Posted by: Ace

Must be nice.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (O2XQw)

47 That University of Oklahoma story is a great illustration of what we're up against. There are 77 counties in Oklahoma, and Trump carried all 77 of them in the election. And YET the public university is just rolling along doing its marxist playbook in plain sight for all to see.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)

48 Defund? I disagree. Too much of the problem is private.

Stop subsidizing. Entirely.

No more grants for student tuition
No more student loan subsidies
No more bankruptcy carve-outs for student loans
No more "development grants" of any kind to any institution
No more research grants unless they are for a stated government objective in energy, defense, ballistics/rocketry, physics, astronomy, chemistry or other objective-outcome subject. No grants for *any* social science, economics, biology or medicine.

Let the beast simply starve. It requires about three or four times as many calories as it can produce on its own.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:43 PM (yjAVs)

49 Note that this person had their colon removed due to ulcerative colitis, necessitating an alternative way to collect digestive waste; thus the ileostomy. Sorry for their suffering, but the rest of the abstract is inexcusable bonkers wackotoon bloviation. Get back to me when you can show a reproducible therapeutic advantage (or disadvantage; I'm not picky) for "feminist queer crip" effects on an autoimmune disorder. Until then, you're wasting your time.

Posted by: Grouchy Dino at December 05, 2025 02:43 PM (CHt+W)

50 I'd like to report a murder:

Songfestival Azerbaijan
@songfestivalaze
Palestine should be brought to Eurovision 2026!

The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome
@TheMossaidIL
No thanks. We all saw what they do at music festivals.

Currently the original post has 246 likes and The Mossad has 7200. Don't tell Candace Owens.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:43 PM (2ocoG)

51 argh I am still working!!

unfair

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (emBoF)

52 The nature article is one of two things - either a longing of belonging to something bigger than the self or "I can't believe I get paid for this... bwah-ha-ha-ha"

Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (ycr1e)

53 And YET the public university is just rolling along doing its marxist playbook in plain sight for all to see.

The GOPe's wives will leave them if they move against trannies.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (2ocoG)

54 Math Transgender Studies

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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste

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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)

55 The main problem is higher education is nothing like real life. It's basically a 4 to 6 year "lifestyle" resort party for most students.

By the time the students graduate, they've spent all their adult life in a fantasyland.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (Vh9CX)

56 I can't wait for the follow-up: "Sidecar, a journey through the heart of crip gut relations in a pluralistic gender spectrum of interconnectedness".

(Sorry, but germane to the post; my daughter the ER nurse once shared a brain-bleach worthy story once, about the ostitute with VD in her stoma. Can. Not. Unsee.)

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (enw9G)

57 not a fan of bulllying, but one of the downsides to so-called anti-bullying efforts, zero-tolerance school violence policies etc.
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When you elimate things, sometimes there are unintended consequences. That doesnt mean the thing that was eliminated was good. However, it persisted because it served some utility. And once it is gone you have to figure how to replace that utility. Teaching the virtues used to be a nice way of doing that. But thats not ok anymore. Doesnt make me a vile gash for pointing it out.

Posted by: Or does it at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (h+S+G)

58 Universities - doing the babysitting work that nannies just won't do.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (WPL6O)

59 Jerrold Nadler had a non-normative gut before non-normative guts were cool, yo.

Posted by: Intestinal Flora at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (PiwSw)

60
Seriously:

Am I the only one who thought of Lorem Ipsum when trying that crap [the fake "study"]?

It's fucking gibberish.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (O2XQw)

61 The intelligencia pulls this crap directly outta their backsides and then expects everyone to think their shit don't stink.

Off topic, but it's 10:45 and the sun is just coming up here. We haven't seen it for about a week, so it's nice to see it finally showed up. Perfectly clear sky. Maybe see some northern lights tonight.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (6Bc88)

62 Americans have noticed: College enrollment has plummeted these last few years, while numbers of Gen Zers are eyeing high-paying, high-demand careers as welders, plumbers and electricians.

Trade school was once stigmatized as a less-appealing option than the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, but a less expensive, more focused education that teaches a highly valuable skill now often seems the far wiser choice.
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Sort of. These two paragraphs are about men. *Male* enrollment is collapsing in real time. Female enrollment will soon, but so far female enrollment declines have been less severe. They won't stay that way. When a school (other than a girls school, of course) goes more 55% female, the school begins to die. Women still want to meet men, even if they're no longer interested in marrying one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (yjAVs)

63 As I will be retiring from teaching even P/T, I will miss the times I could walk across campus and laugh at the idiots.
"Hey! Are you laughing at us??!!"
ME: Nope. Private joke. A question though...has your hair always been green or did you lose a bet?
"Hey! I'm offended."
ME: Tough shit. Take my class and learn what a real offense is.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (2WIwB)

64 56 I can't wait for the follow-up: "Sidecar, a journey through the heart of crip gut relations in a pluralistic gender spectrum of interconnectedness".

(Sorry, but germane to the post; my daughter the ER nurse once shared a brain-bleach worthy story once, about the ostitute with VD in her stoma. Can. Not. Unsee.)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (enw9G)

"F*** my Tracheotomy Hole harder, Daddy!" (said with an electronic voicebox)

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)

65 32 Wasn't it said yesterday that 42% of university students are considered handicap or special needs?
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)

Retarded is the politically correct term, now.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (EES2L)

66 Nature - oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (Riz8t)

67 But Nature has now embraced it, publishing an autoethnographic paper about “crip guts,” “queer stoma pride,” ...

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Those random word generators must be running at full speed.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (xEX9H)

68 Sidecar is a drink.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (ynBxV)

69 When I worked for the federal government, sometimes other employees would seek help in getting their progeny a job after they graduated from college (or while still matriculating). I cannot remember a single time, off-hand, when these doting parents didn't first and foremost attempt to get their children into the government, somewhere. Private sector work was always considered a less attractive (and, probably, a less honorable) Plan B.

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (mADJX)

70 62 Sort of. These two paragraphs are about men. *Male* enrollment is collapsing in real time. Female enrollment will soon, but so far female enrollment declines have been less severe. They won't stay that way. When a school (other than a girls school, of course) goes more 55% female, the school begins to die. Women still want to meet men, even if they're no longer interested in marrying one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (yjAVs)

Do we know this for sure, when so many young people are Trooning Out or identifying as Neither?

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)

71 Those random word generators must be running at full speed.

It's no more scientific than Mad Libs.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (Riz8t)

72 Maybe Trump has a point allowing large numbers of Chinese to go to our universities...

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (YwEeS)

73 I saw Crip Guts open up for GWAR at the Palladium in April 95!

Posted by: I Stand With No One at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (cUrpM)

74
It's like someone asked A.I. to write an essay filled with Lorem Ipsum and tranny buzzwords.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (O2XQw)

75 Wasn't it said yesterday that 42% of university students are considered handicap or special needs?
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)
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No.

A large percentage - and yeah, approaching half in some schools - *claim* a disability, and many disabilities cannot be disproven. "Disability" means an easier time, and you cannot create an incentive like that without expecting people to figure it out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (yjAVs)

76 Which then leads to the conclusion favored by Marxists: And you can use actual violence to stop "word violence."

This cannot be ignored. In the words of Sam Elliot (as Sgt Plumely), "Gentleman, prepare to defend yourselves"

Buy ammo.

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (XuXeR)

77 47 That University of Oklahoma story is a great illustration of what we're up against. There are 77 counties in Oklahoma, and Trump carried all 77 of them in the election. And YET the public university is just rolling along doing its marxist playbook in plain sight for all to see.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)

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It's a weird fact of life that Republican legislatures love giving piles of cash to those that hate them.

Just imagine a world where Democrat legislatures gave millions or billions to pro-life groups, 2A groups, etc.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Vh9CX)

78 Do we know this for sure, when so many young people are Trooning Out or identifying as Neither?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)
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Heh.

That fad is fading out, thankfully.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (yjAVs)

79 47 That University of Oklahoma story is a great illustration of what we're up against. There are 77 counties in Oklahoma, and Trump carried all 77 of them in the election. And YET the public university is just rolling along doing its marxist playbook in plain sight for all to see.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)

It also shows that conservatives can't live and let live anymore. It's high time conservatives try to cancel and ostracize anyone with these thoughts.

Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (ycr1e)

80 >>>Most notably, OU announced that Curth had been pulled from the classroom pending the outcome of the investigation and replaced by a full-time professor to "ensure fairness."
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OK, probably the reddest of all red states. Curth is lucky that OK is kind of mid-west friendly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (SZI4T)

81 There is an enrollment crisis for Universities brewing. Millennials slowed down having kids during the 2008-9 Great Recession. Birth rates in that era for Americans plummeted. That generation is almost college age, and there are simply a lot less of them that exist. Which means less kids applying for college

THIS is why they are shoving in so many foreign students (that they can charge expensive international tuition rates for.) Because colleges can't shrink, they can only expand! Like the government. Also why they want illegals and anchor babies. The top group increasing their percentages of going to college is Hispanics. Universities looking for other avenues.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Eng1Z)

82 I read this post twice and still have no idea what that person was trying to explain. If I had kids looking at a college I'd say nope and have them look at another path.

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Q0yOR)

83 I used to live near GWARs home town. Even worked with one of their exes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (ynBxV)

84 One can smoke a cig thru the trach. Seen it. The VA patient was dedicated to the habit.

Posted by: Kingsman at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (ehY6c)

85 59 Jerrold Nadler had a non-normative gut before non-normative guts were cool, yo.
Posted by: Intestinal Flora at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (PiwSw)

I'm waiting for an alien to pop out, and Sigourney Weaver hunting it down with an arc welder....

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (e/Osv)

86 Nature, like its US counterpart Science, is Garbage now.

They should rename it accordingly.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (77rzZ)

87 The university appeared to sense the legal danger immediately.

It's afraid. IT'S AFRAID!!

(It's great that universities are now viewing the legal threat from normal Americans as greater than than that from Lefties, queers, and other assorted weirdos)

Posted by: Neil Patrick Harris in Starship Troopers at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (JCZqz)

88 Math Transgender Studies

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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste

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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)

***
Campuses across the country are becoming aware of a new terrorist group, Al-Gebrah. The Feds believe they are working a weapons of maths instruction.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (2WIwB)

89 76 Which then leads to the conclusion favored by Marxists: And you can use actual violence to stop "word violence."

This cannot be ignored. In the words of Sam Elliot (as Sgt Plumely), "Gentleman, prepare to defend yourselves"

Buy ammo.
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (XuXeR)

Endorsed

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (xcxpd)

90 Women still want to meet men, even if they're no longer interested in marrying one.

Right. The girls who actually believe in feminism can't "find themselves" riding the carousel if there's no carousel.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (2ocoG)

91 35 I'm not a fan of bulllying, but one of the downsides to so-called anti-bullying efforts, zero-tolerance school violence policies etc. is that people don't get the public ass-whuppings they and everyone else around them need...
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)

In addition, I've always viewed the "anti-bullying" efforts as a means to prevent kids from standing up for themselves. Wouldn't want a generation of strong men standing up for their own self interests, now would we? (government)

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (EES2L)

92 No Disney thread this afternoon? Boo hoo! Oh well, I suppose I can travel over to the U-tubes and watch the latest Critical Drinker Production Hell. This week he skewers "Cats." How bold!

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (sFNX2)

93 Americans have noticed: College enrollment has plummeted these last few years,"

And will, as the number of births has generally declined since 2008...
Gotta import students!

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (XuXeR)

94 Do we know this for sure, when so many young people are Trooning Out or identifying as Neither?

I'm here to help.

"Trooning out" is an offensive and derogatory anti-LGBTQ+ slang term and slur
. It is primarily used online by anti-trans groups and individuals as a transphobic insult.
Meaning

As a verb: The term is intransitive and used to mean "to undergo gender transition" in a highly offensive and demeaning way.
As a noun: The base word "troon" is a slur used to refer to and dehumanize transgender women specifically

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (Riz8t)

95 Tag?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:50 PM (ynBxV)

96 That University of Oklahoma story is a great illustration of what we're up against. There are 77 counties in Oklahoma, and Trump carried all 77 of them in the election. And YET the public university is just rolling along doing its marxist playbook in plain sight for all to see.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)
+++++
It still pretty common to see statements like, "Surely School X is okay, it's in a very 'red' area!"

No. Never. A school can be in a conservative township in a conservative county in a conservative district in a conservative state and the university there will be shot through with glass-eyed communist groomers, with every part of its operational policy geared toward producing more of the same.

It does not matter where a university is. Its milieu is irrelevant. It's a university, therefore it's an administrative outpost of Big Prog.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:50 PM (yjAVs)

97 BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.

Best time of the week!!!!

Posted by: Ace

So, Ace has decamped.

Say...um...does Ace ever count the silverware before he leaves? Just curious...

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:50 PM (mADJX)

98 Why is this lunatic on the faculty of a state university in Oklahoma…. The reddest of all the states good grief. If Oklahoma can’t keep out the crazy who can?? Infuriating

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (ZtAny)

99 BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.

Best time of the week!!!!

Posted by: Ace at 02:30 PM

Gotta get those Crocs cleaned up and polished before you hit the town!

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (77rzZ)

100 I need to get some Silver settings after the price collapses again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (ynBxV)

101 It does not matter where a university is. Its milieu is irrelevant.

More accurately, every school's milieu is every other school. There's a limited supply of education majors, and they can't all hire DOCTOR JILL.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (2ocoG)

102 91 35 I'm not a fan of bulllying, but one of the downsides to so-called anti-bullying efforts, zero-tolerance school violence policies etc. is that people don't get the public ass-whuppings they and everyone else around them need...
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)

In addition, I've always viewed the "anti-bullying" efforts as a means to prevent kids from standing up for themselves. Wouldn't want a generation of strong men standing up for their own self interests, now would we? (government)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (EES2L)

And let's face it. Sometimes the football team NEEDS to gang-stomp the nerdy kid, so he doesn't turn gay.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (UnA8+)

103 Do we know this for sure, when so many young people are Trooning Out or identifying as Neither?

Somebody did a survey of women who identified themselves as "bixsexual" at liberal arts colleges, and the vast majority of them had only had sex with men in the prior year.

It's a fashion statement.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (xTIDn)

104 96, 98 — I can see I was late to this thread. It’s frustrating that the reddest state has the rot as well…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (ZtAny)

105 Sidecar is a drink.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (ynBxV)

***

*looks at clock*
11:53.

Close enough!!!
Cheers!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (2WIwB)

106 If Ace is out, now would be a good time for a cob to post busty lesbian pron and get away with it.

I'm just sayin'.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (2ocoG)

107 Man, I could write about my cancer and make something wildly up about how it matters to X woke group in X woke way, and I, the wildly underqualified, will now be the ultimate expert in that cancer field? Sign me up!

And then pay me the mid 6 figure salary with benefits per year with 5 digit speaking engagement for the next 10 years...

I mean, I diagnosed myself as an X Man since one of my genetic changes was not even identifiable in the test, and isn't X the truest of the non-gendered, non-identified, and always mistreated folks (comics says so about the last one)...

And X-Man is way easier to market...well, maybe X-Woman...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (tOcjL)

108 I'm waiting for an alien to pop out, "

"Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire!"

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)

109 Math Transgender Studies

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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste

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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)

And inverse operations.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (dK+Kv)

110 BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.
_______
OK, enjoy the pron.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (s0JqF)

111 JD Vance
·
Dec 4, 2025
@JDVance
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Follow
Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.
Preston Byrne

@prestonjbyrne
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I hear the House of Representatives has a bill, the GRANITE Act, that'll fix this and allow X to sue the Commission for 3x the threatened fine.

America can stop foreign censors for good. You should get on the horn with some folks and ask them to push it through!

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (TN0g+)

112 The silence is killing me!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (pkeXY)

113 I don't really understand much of what's going on in the Zeitgeist, I'll just be over hear watching VHS reruns of Barney Miller on my RCA.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (XV/Pl)

114 There is an enrollment crisis for Universities brewing. Millennials slowed down having kids during the 2008-9 Great Recession. Birth rates in that era for Americans plummeted. That generation is almost college age, and there are simply a lot less of them that exist. Which means less kids applying for college ...
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Eng1Z)
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That is all Millennials. That era was the tail end of GenX and the first part of what should have been the Millennial wave. The Millennial wave didn't materialize, and now never will (the Millennials are too old now).

I usually see this chalked up to economic considerations, but I don't really buy it. Yeah, the economy sucks for young people and has for a long time, but poor people have kids all the time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (yjAVs)

115 I had most of my colon removed a couple of months ago. I must say that I felt like I'd been beaten almost to death by a gang of Crips. I didn't get a paper published though.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (2UnvF)

116 And let's face it. Sometimes the football team NEEDS to gang-stomp the nerdy kid, so he doesn't turn gay.

*raises hand* I'm the nerdy kid who broke the bully's nose in 8th grade. Also a valuable lesson for both of us.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (2ocoG)

117 Has the Trans gene been isolated yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (ynBxV)

118 College degree costs $640k.

240k for 4 years at 60k each.
400k not realized by not working those 4 years.

In the ‘70’s and 80’s when tuition was reasonable it made sense.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (cvzXT)

119 Math Transgender Studies

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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste

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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)

And inverse operations.

And non-Euclidean geometry.

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (mADJX)

120 108 I'm waiting for an alien to pop out, "

"Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire!"
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)

Mel Brooks is/was a FREAKING GENIUS, shame that he probably couldn't make ANY of his movies today.

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (e/Osv)

121 More accurately, every school's milieu is every other school. There's a limited supply of education majors, and they can't all hire DOCTOR JILL.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (2ocoG)
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Within the walls, yes. I was referring to where the school is, not what happens within it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (yjAVs)

122 I'm glad I teach business classes...not quite so insane there. But bad enough.
I did ask my students to identify one famous person they have met. Answers were as about you'd expect...mom, dad, a senator, etc. I then told mine, who was Charles Lindberg. Not a single student (and these were mainly juniors, knew who that was.
Sadz.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (2WIwB)

Any classes on the wisdom of business HR having wine on tap and girls in short skirts doing no work at high salaries? Or how blaming unhappy customers in a service industry is kinda dumb?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (8avO+)

123 Universities - doing the babysitting work that nannies just won't do.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (WPL6O)

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The only difference between kindergartens and universities now is the age of the kinder.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (pTQH2)

124 "Sidecar is a drink"

I'm sure oral sex with the ostitute will be covered in the next scholarly study.
(NEW brain bleach item)

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (enw9G)

125 I've always viewed the "anti-bullying" efforts as a means to prevent kids from standing up for themselves. "

This. X 10,000. It's only about "respect mu authority "

Anti bullying campaigns are crap.

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (XuXeR)

126 Have a good weekend Ace, you earned it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (bfwj/)

127 I'm not a fan of bulllying, but one of the downsides to so-called anti-bullying efforts, zero-tolerance school violence policies etc. is that people don't get the public ass-whuppings they and everyone else around them need...
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)

The grand children of Diogenes know that the best solution to bullying is a solid right hook (except for lefty grandson) and/or a swift kick to the nads. I will support them in any fallout from said action.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (2WIwB)

128 I'll just be over hear watching VHS reruns of Barney Miller on my RCA.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

You really need to get a Quasar...by Motorola.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)

129 University professors, at least in the liberal arts, are the most inbred snotty backstabbers I have ever met. I got called to the Dean's office because my art history professor accused me of plagiarism. He couldn't prove it, but he was certain it wasn't possible that I could write a paper on Cass Gilbert's St. Louis Art Museum with information he had never seen, because he considered himself an expert on the topic. Of course, all my sources were cited properly, but he just hadn't gone to the museum archives to look any of that information up himself, so I must have cheated and copied. He couldn't stand being shown up by a lowly architecture student.

This was mumble-mumble years ago. I can't imagine it has gotten any better over the years.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (6Bc88)

130 99 BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.
Best time of the week!!!!
Posted by: Ace

Are we going to have a post about Ethan Klein destroying Kacytron at some point. It's not the normal mainstream political discussion around here, but major Lefty on Lefty social media infighting, complete with a hostage-style apology video, slowly closing in on Commie-retard Hasan Piker, is too juicy to pass up!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (JCZqz)

131 116 And let's face it. Sometimes the football team NEEDS to gang-stomp the nerdy kid, so he doesn't turn gay.

*raises hand* I'm the nerdy kid who broke the bully's nose in 8th grade. Also a valuable lesson for both of us.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (2ocoG)

None of my schools had the stereotypical fat loudmouth bully.

It was always the jocks and the rich kids. And weirdly enough, some of the stoners.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (UnA8+)

132 I know that inflation has been general but, it still boggles my mind that the educational full load that I paid about a thousand dollars per semester for in the 1970s at our premier state school is now north of $7K, excluding fees and books.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (jc0TO)

133 Maybe Pell Grants and Student Loans need to go byebye?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (ynBxV)

134 This, I think, is why NIH is breaking with Springer, and planning to publish science research papers on their own.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (rbvCR)

135 A small elementary school in a red part of NJ is having a controversy over Linda McMahon visiting to celebrate Aermica's 250th anniversary. All schools are hard left.

Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (ycr1e)

136 I gather that "autoethnographic" means "Let's talk about me, which by definition I can not be wrong about or disproven." I.e. the exact opposite of research and science.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (3nLb4)

137 Spaceballs 2 is in production....

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (YwEeS)

138 75 Wasn't it said yesterday that 42% of university students are considered handicap or special needs?
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)
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No.

A large percentage - and yeah, approaching half in some schools - *claim* a disability, and many disabilities cannot be disproven. "Disability" means an easier time, and you cannot create an incentive like that without expecting people to figure it out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (yjAVs)

Yes, it's the way white and Asian kids on the 2nd level of intellect compete with the top level, b/c they'd have no other way in.

I am against all of that for my kids b/c while you may get in to the "better" college, you still have to eventually get a job. And 22 with little experience AND a claimed disability is asking to never get hired. B/c you're not just a little problem (which all 22 year olds are), but now a bigger problem.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (tOcjL)

139 "Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire!"
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)

Mel Brooks is/was a FREAKING GENIUS, shame that he probably couldn't make ANY of his movies today.

I thought that was Chuck Jones. Michigan J. Frog.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)

140 In the ‘70’s and 80’s when tuition was reasonable it made sense.

Also, relatively few people had graduated college in the '70s and '80s, so you were part of a small group, even if you had majored in an esoteric subject.

Now, that we have successfully encouraged many more people to graduate from "college", albeit generally in useless majors, being a college grad is no longer much of a mark of distinction.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (xTIDn)

141 The grand children of Diogenes know that the best solution to bullying is a solid right hook (except for lefty grandson) and/or a swift kick to the nads. I will support them in any fallout from said action.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (2WIwB)

I told all my RE kids that if anyone touched them inappropriately they should scream bloody murder and kick 'em in the ding-ding. I even had them do the screaming so they would know what to do.

Works equally well for bullies, of course.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (6Bc88)

142 JD Vance
·
Dec 4, 2025
@JDVance
·
Follow
Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.
Preston Byrne

X should just cut off all EU customers from sending tweets. That should fix that.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (8avO+)

143 I guess I technically have "crip guts" after my bowel resection surgery a decade or so ago.

I don't go publishing autoethnographic studies about it in academic journals, though.

Maybe I should.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (ESVrU)

144 So, the queer pooper paper is saying they is full of shit they can't keep it in.

How refreshingly honest in a scientific paper, nowadays.

Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (ILu3z)

145 "anti bullying" was the foot in the door for all things gay; the gay activist groups jumped on that in the 90s, and the govt schools entered into the public/private partnership that ended up here.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (enw9G)

146 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

INBOX: The African-Centered College Preparatory Academy (
@kcpublicschools
) in Missouri was captured apparently hanging the American flag upside down outside their campus.

Extremely disturbing and disrespectful.

We contacted the school for an explanation but they declined to comment.

You can contact them here: askthesupt@kcpublicschools.org

https://tinyurl.com/22ys4zvt

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (NpAcC)

147 @128

>>You really need to get a Quasar...by Motorola.

I never went in for those all-in-one jammies.

Nope just a top loading Magnavox for me.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (XV/Pl)

148 I usually see this chalked up to economic considerations, but I don't really buy it. "

A generation going thru "kids is hard" training in an attempt to reduce teen pregnancy paid off...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (XuXeR)

149 Math Transgender Studies

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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste

-------------

Not to mention "imaginary numbers."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)

And inverse operations.

And non-Euclidean geometry.

Pfffffft.

Posted by: The Reciprocal Lattice aka k-space at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (Riz8t)

150 The first time I can recall the push for "everyone must go to college" was the Bill Clinton administration

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (YwEeS)

151 I've always viewed the "anti-bullying" efforts as a means to prevent kids from standing up for themselves. "

This. X 10,000. It's only about "respect mu authority "

Anti bullying campaigns are crap.
==
The adminstration has a monopoly on authorah ta! We decide what is good. We decide what is bad. You peons will wait to hear from us before you do or say anything.

----- Principle Skinner

Posted by: Training starts early at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (h+S+G)

152 Spaceballs 2 is in production....
------

That sounds....terrible. And about as relevant as Spinal Tap 2. If a decade goes by before a "sequel" comes out...its not a sequel in my book. Just go remake the thing and tell a different story.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (TN0g+)

153 I thought that was Chuck Jones. Michigan J. Frog. - Bulg

Absolutely correct.

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (mADJX)

154 136 I gather that "autoethnographic" means "Let's talk about me, which by definition I can not be wrong about or disproven." I.e. the exact opposite of research and science.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (3nLb4)

an ethny of one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (JwNbV)

155 148 I usually see this chalked up to economic considerations, but I don't really buy it. "

A generation going thru "kids is hard" training in an attempt to reduce teen pregnancy paid off...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (XuXeR)

They just didn't want to stop drinking and smoking weed.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (UnA8+)

156 I told all my RE kids that if anyone touched them inappropriately they should scream bloody murder and kick 'em in the ding-ding. I even had them do the screaming so they would know what to do.

Works equally well for bullies, of course.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (6Bc8

Ha!
Excellent!

But all the 'rons on this thread just crossed their legs.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (2WIwB)

157 RIP Frank Gehry, Master Of Giant Eyesores.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (GHIyr)

158 Are they going to race and gender swap everyone and make it fake and ghey?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (ynBxV)

159 SO full of...

Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (ILu3z)

160 first time I can recall the push for "everyone must go to college" was the Bill Clinton administration
==
It was cultural before that, but he basically turned it into anyone can get money easily.

Posted by: Clenis at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (h+S+G)

161 I was an engineering student at UH in the 80s when they started adding weird shit to our schedules. They inserted cultural heritage and other crap. Civil eng. got picked on for demanding 146 hours when other schools were requiring much less.
They dropped surveying to a single class, no drafting after I left. I wonder what it's like now.

Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (8uzBS)

162 None of my schools had the stereotypical fat loudmouth bully.

It was always the jocks and the rich kids. And weirdly enough, some of the stoners.

In my case the bully was a completely average looking kid who just was wired wrong. I actually got along with the jocks because I could speak fluent baseball.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (2ocoG)

163 The instructor, identified in university records as Mel Curth -- a biological male who identifies as a woman --

My mom passed away in 2017 at 77 yrs of age.

Do you know the one thing she NEVER had to have checked?

Yeah. Her prostate. F that cross dressing faggot.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (9bIJg)

164 If a decade goes by before a "sequel" comes out...its not a sequel in my book. Just go remake the thing and tell a different story.
Posted by: Crusader

It's been longer than that. Spaceballs came out in the 80s when I was in college.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (77rzZ)

165 X should just cut off all EU customers from sending tweets. That should fix that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM

While simultaneously adding a Tor based VPN on the page, like Brave does on their browser, or even offering their own VPNed app.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (jc0TO)

166 being a college grad is no longer much of a mark of distinction."

Once upon a time that was High School. Not everyone graduated...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (XuXeR)

167 Investigative Reporter/Citizen Journalist, Bob Cushman, has just released an FEC data analysis that strongly suggests that Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Chrissy Houlahan, and Maggie Goodlander have been recipients of illegally laundered campaign funds.

In the initial investigation, Cushman cites 22 Smurf examples that have “allegedly” contributed almost three million dollars in more than 95,000 separate donations to Democratic coffers.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (RHGPo)

168 Are we going to have a post about Ethan Klein destroying Kacytron at some point. It's not the normal mainstream political discussion around here, but major Lefty on Lefty social media infighting, complete with a hostage-style apology video, slowly closing in on Commie-retard Hasan Piker, is too juicy to pass up!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (JCZqz)

I think Piker has dodged a legal attack at this point, which is why Ethan has gone for the orbiters who proudly proclaimed they were trying to steal his content to hurt his income . But these orbiters are getting crushed, and perhaps some of his closer associates may get it in the crossfire after that.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

169 45 40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

Dream on, white boy.

Guns in the sky...?

Posted by: Random lyrics to tangential jokes made in specious relation to actual topic at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (+BcZI)

170 I went to college in 1988. By then, it was considered 'expected' to go to college for most kids (this is in small town Iowa). So this was brewing for a while.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)

171 "Stand up to bullies" does not mean stand up to the bully. It means internalize the system of passive aggressive sucking-up to authority and establishing your own clique that can go around and bully with impunity with the explicit blessing of all the gross chomos and diddy-kiddlers who "administrate" the place.

Backed, in turn, by the full force of city and county government.

...

But I repeat myself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (JwNbV)

172 Jake Tapper > Brian Stelter

Posted by: Jake T. at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (0sNs1)

173 They dropped surveying to a single class, no drafting after I left. I wonder what it's like now."

Engineering? Well, there was this bridge in Florida...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (XuXeR)

174 156 I told all my RE kids that if anyone touched them inappropriately they should scream bloody murder and kick 'em in the ding-ding. I even had them do the screaming so they would know what to do.

Works equally well for bullies, of course.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (6Bc8

That's my purse! I don't know you!!

Posted by: Bobby Hill at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (PiwSw)

175 Any classes on the wisdom of business HR having wine on tap and girls in short skirts doing no work at high salaries? Or how blaming unhappy customers in a service industry is kinda dumb?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (8avO+)

He said business, not adulting.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (dK+Kv)

176 1 . Stop funding NGOs
2 . Make student loan discharges the burden of the unis
3 . Investigate & prosecute Student Life programs for discrimination and civil rights violations.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (mlg/3)

177 169 45 40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

Dream on, white boy.

Guns in the sky...?
Posted by: Random lyrics to tangential jokes made in specious relation to actual topic at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (+BcZI)

Someone out there ain't gonna like it

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)

178 145 "anti bullying" was the foot in the door for all things gay; the gay activist groups jumped on that in the 90s, and the govt schools entered into the public/private partnership that ended up here.
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (enw9G)

Yes, bullying and shame worked. The gay gestapo also didn't want people talking about the truth of the gay lifestyle, they only were supposed to talk about love.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (vZUXb)

179 @165

>>While simultaneously adding a Tor based VPN on the page, like Brave does on their browser, or even offering their own VPNed app.

Tor is the creation of the CIA/NSA, that's not really a good option.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (XV/Pl)

180 We did some drafting in Industrial Arts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (ynBxV)

181 Does Ace have something that posts threads automatically, without his having to be present?

Or does he have minions for that?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)

182 X should just cut off all EU customers from sending tweets. That should fix that.

Australia is going to ban kids under 16 from using "social media".

X will be banned, but Bluesky won't be.

Of course, the real purpose of imposing age restrictions on the internet is to eliminate anonymity - since you'll have to identify yourself to prove that you are over the minimum required age.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (xTIDn)

183 You really need to get a Quasar...by Motorola.

Was Quasar actually advertised that way? They were actually made by Panasonic.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (2ocoG)

184 177 169 45 40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

Dream on, white boy.

Guns in the sky...?
Posted by: Random lyrics to tangential jokes made in specious relation to actual topic at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (+BcZI)

Someone out there ain't gonna like it
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)

It's the one thing...

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (vZUXb)

185 45 40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

Dream on, white boy.

Guns in the sky...?

Don't Change for you...

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (TN0g+)

186 Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make them ki11 you.

Posted by: tjpruett at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (BqMly)

187 Does Ace have something that posts threads automatically, without his having to be present?

Or does he have minions for that?

Autopen

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (Riz8t)

188 being a college grad is no longer much of a mark of distinction."

Once upon a time that was High School. Not everyone graduated...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM

Average BA degree today is probably worth less than a HS diploma from the '40s or earlier.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (0sNs1)

189 None of my schools had the stereotypical fat loudmouth bully.

Had one in 9th grade. He was an ass, but it turned out he and I were the best players in PE dodgeball. Always on different teams. There developed a grudging admiration, and he never messed with me throughout high school.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (2WIwB)

190 181 Does Ace have something that posts threads automatically, without his having to be present?

Or does he have minions for that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)

He probably has posts written and then queued up to publish every couple of hours. I know Wordpress can do that, I expect Pixy can too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (xcxpd)

191 Tor is the creation of the CIA/NSA, that's not really a good option.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM

I think it is fine for this. If Britain or the EU proves that they are hacking Tor by prosecuting someone, that would be a good thing to know.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (jc0TO)

192 Any classes on the wisdom of business HR having wine on tap and girls in short skirts doing no work at high salaries?

It worked great for Twitter until it didn't.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (2ocoG)

193 If you are over 16 you will have to prove it. No anonymous internet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (ynBxV)

194 157 RIP Frank Gehry, Master Of Giant Eyesores.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (GHIyr)

Dude came to my architecture school and gave a lecture about how great he was. Didn't want to answer questions, of course. Figured he was above all that.

In my experience, most of these big shot architects don't bother doing any actual design work, and certainly no production work. They are glory hounds, is all.

I worked for a guy in Chicago who was second banana to Helmut Jahn for a time. Helmut scribbled something on a napkin and then handed it to John for him to make an actual building out of it. John finally figured he could do better on his own, so he left. Was one of my best bosses ever.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (6Bc88)

195 They just didn't want to stop drinking and smoking weed.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (UnA8+)

They're animals anyway. Let them lose their souls.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (dK+Kv)

196 Tor is the creation of the CIA/NSA, that's not really a good option.

So is Ghidra, but it's still incredibly useful.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (2ocoG)

197 I might have mentioned this here before. I can't remember. BUT, one of the things I plan to do when I retire is take college courses at local universities. There are quite a few around here.

I plan on signing up for some of the most liberal sounding courses that are offered... (the usual Urban Studies, Gender Studies, etc) Then, without breaking any of the school's established behaviorial policies, I am going to be an absolute nightmare for the professor. I will question all undocumented statements. I will offer alternative common sense answers and make it his/her job to prove me wrong.

I have no skin in the game concerning grades. And, from a indoctrinating professor, that is very, very dangerous to the agenda. I thought my wife would tell me I'm being immature. But, no. She wants to participate.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (dIske)

198 You really need to get a Quasar...by Motorola.

Was Quasar actually advertised that way? They were actually made by Panasonic.
Posted by: Ian S.

The iconic quasi-jingle said Motorola.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (77rzZ)

199 I mean, don't plan a revolution on Tor, but commenting on X calling your Prime Minister a Moslem monkey should be okay.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (jc0TO)

200 Wait... so the paper was about their shit being all fucked up?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (n5tGW)

201
Best Architect?

Mr. Brady

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (O2XQw)

202 Spaceballs 2 is in production....
------

That sounds....terrible. And about as relevant as Spinal Tap 2. If a decade goes by before a "sequel" comes out...its not a sequel in my book. Just go remake the thing and tell a different story.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (TN0g+)

We already have web critics who ruthlessly mock Star Wars drivel - with more content by far than the entire original movie. Affectionate mocking is really off the table.

An the crisis behind the whole thing is that movie studios have nearly forgotten how to sustain a big movie or long running television product and satisfy fans.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (8avO+)

203 Average BA degree today is probably worth less than a HS diploma from the '40s or earlier.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (0sNs1)

Can't become a registered architect without a professional degree, which means a BS or MArch. BA means nothing.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (6Bc88)

204 180 We did some drafting in Industrial Arts.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (ynBxV)

Electrical Engineering major, some,...umm, "few"...years ago and drafting was required regardless of engineering major. I'm wondering why....???? Ten years later, I'm designing a data center in AutoCAD. Oh, now I know!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (e/Osv)

205 The tranny wanted to know how society viewed gender.

The (extremely hot, btw) student correctly answered that most people including her, viewed gender through a traditional lens.

Even if the tranny didn't like that fact, it is unarguably correct.

Real reason for the 0/25 grade: jealousy. The tranny is ugly, the student is beuatiful.

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (oraVG)

206 CaliGirl, in dear ole Loudoun VA, one "anti bullying" exercise back around the millennium had the kids role-play as gay and ask each other out, so they could see how it feels to be a bullied as a gay kid.

Even if they were in the session for being bullied about their weight, or their skin, or .....

Because only gay kids are bullied, right?

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (enw9G)

207 In the initial investigation, Cushman cites 22 Smurf examples that have “allegedly” contributed almost three million dollars in more than 95,000 separate donations to Democratic coffers.
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (RHGPo)

They should put Cuellar and Santos in charge of the investigations

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (rbvCR)

208
The awful "Brady Reunion" was, when, in 1980?

Mr. Brady shows up with a fucking perm. What a fag.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (O2XQw)

209 'Nature' publication is insane. One has to turn off his rational brain or read it as a parody of a psychedelic psychotic episode.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (SZI4T)

210 201
Best Architect?

Mr. Brady

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (O2XQw)

He was a fag, so I guess his shit was all retarded.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (6Bc88)

211 168 Are we going to have a post about Ethan Klein destroying Kacytron at some point. It's not the normal mainstream political discussion around here, but major Lefty on Lefty social media infighting, complete with a hostage-style apology video, slowly closing in on Commie-retard Hasan Piker, is too juicy to pass up!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (JCZqz)

I think Piker has dodged a legal attack at this point, which is why Ethan has gone for the orbiters who proudly proclaimed they were trying to steal his content to hurt his income . But these orbiters are getting crushed, and perhaps some of his closer associates may get it in the crossfire after that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

I just want to see him take down that nasty Islamic Land Whale, Frogun.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (UnA8+)

212 Best aerospace engineer?

Steve Douglas.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (0sNs1)

213 I plan on signing up for some of the most liberal sounding courses that are offered... (the usual Urban Studies, Gender Studies, etc) Then, without breaking any of the school's established behaviorial policies, I am going to be an absolute nightmare for the professor. I will question all undocumented statements. I will offer alternative common sense answers and make it his/her job to prove me wrong.

I have no skin in the game concerning grades. And, from a indoctrinating professor, that is very, very dangerous to the agenda. I thought my wife would tell me I'm being immature. But, no. She wants to participate.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (dIske)

They'll just toss you out and keep your money.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (8avO+)

214 I went to college in 1988. By then, it was considered 'expected' to go to college for most kids (this is in small town Iowa). So this was brewing for a while.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)

Unless my memory is bad I think you and I compared notes in these gray boxes a few years ago and decided we might’ve been contemporaries at ISU in Ames in the 80s? I was there then….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (+kWhq)

215 Mr Brady kept using the blueprints for his house in every job that came in those TV movies.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (ynBxV)

216 Best Architect?

Mr. Brady

Posted by: Soothsayer

That poofter? No, Steve Douglas!

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

217 Crip guts sounds like something you'd find on the ground after a gang fight with the Bloods.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (pkeXY)

218 197 I might have mentioned this here before. I can't remember. BUT, one of the things I plan to do when I retire is take college courses at local universities. There are quite a few around here.

I plan on signing up for some of the most liberal sounding courses that are offered... (the usual Urban Studies, Gender Studies, etc) Then, without breaking any of the school's established behaviorial policies, I am going to be an absolute nightmare for the professor. I will question all undocumented statements. I will offer alternative common sense answers and make it his/her job to prove me wrong.

I have no skin in the game concerning grades. And, from a indoctrinating professor, that is very, very dangerous to the agenda. I thought my wife would tell me I'm being immature. But, no. She wants to participate.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (dIske)

I also plan on doing that if I make it that long b/c it's free for seniors here...so why not stay up to date on what the kids are learning and "help" the prof...I was planning on law classes - had con law and business law in school, so figure I could refresh all that and help other understand the law

...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (tOcjL)

219 "Helmut scribbled something on a napkin and then handed it to John for him to make an actual building out of it."

There's a doc about Gehry. He did an hour of 'work' pasting together a rando paper construction, then handed it off to henchmen to finish the crime for him.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (GHIyr)

220 I just want to see him take down that nasty Islamic Land Whale, Frogun.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (UnA8+)

Word on the street is she's the next to settle and read out her prepared statement and turn evidence on the thugs.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (8avO+)

221 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

222 OT, but I'm super pissed at Steven Crowder. Jillian Michaels expressed concern that the right isn't formally denouncing antisemitic Nazi-curious troll Nick Fuentes. Crowder blasted her for that, said the right doesn't DO that.

(Actually we do...William Buckley expelled the Birchers, IIRC.)

Then Crowder said, since Jillian is still new to being on the right, she needs to sit down, shut up, and let the men talk, and in a few years she can express her feelings about things. (He even quoted the biblical scripture about women not speaking in the NT, totally not understanding the context for WHY the NT says that, based on the pagan female worship in that area at the time.)

And right after blasting her, HE platformed Nick Fuentes on his show this week.

I LIKE a bunch of the new crop of moderate dems that found in the Trump era, there's no place for them in the democrat party anymore: Tulsi, Dave Rubin, Jillian, etc. Time will tell if they are true believers or grifters, sure. But who is Crowder to be the thought police?

I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

223 200 Wait... so the paper was about their shit being all fucked up?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (n5tGW)

I don’t see how anyone can say that paper is scientifically significant unless it address that affect that them talking like a fag also has on the data.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (5T6VE)

224 He probably has posts written and then queued up to publish every couple of hours. I know Wordpress can do that, I expect Pixy can too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (xcxpd)
---
Unlike WordPress, Minx 0.8 beta can't auto-post based on timestamps. It would make a lot of our COB jobs a lot easier if it could...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (ESVrU)

225 The tranny wanted to know how society viewed gender.

I view it like the medical community does.
When you present to an ob/gyn about ovary issues and the doctor sees your dick...

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (9bIJg)

226 Engineering? Well, there was this bridge in Florida...

I was told that same company designed the second span of the Harris County Toll Road over the Houston Ship Channel. Toll Road Authority was so impressed by the design they declared they would replace the first bridge to match the newer design once it was completed.

About halfway into the new bridge that Florida mayhap occurred. HCTRA cancelled the construction immediately. I believe they went back to the drawing board.

Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (8uzBS)

227 So, I glanced at the sidebar and saw the bamboo stuff.

I have a theory.

The writer is obsessed with telling a stupid story and including bamboo.

Don't panda's eat bamboo? They secretly want to have sex with a panda.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

228 Best Architect?

Mr. Brady
------

He had to be a great architect--his company flew him and his family to that amusement park where the kids lost his plans. And I think his company flew the entire gang to Hawaii as well.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (TN0g+)

229 They'll just toss you out and keep your money.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (8avO+)
_______________________

They'd have to show cause. And, I have nothing to lose. If I comply with their policies, they're going to have a hard time tossing me. And, to be honest, that might be my goal in the first place. Easier to make a lot more noise that way.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (dIske)

230 I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

The Issue is never the issue.

~~The Revolution~~ The Followers is always the issue.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (JwNbV)

231 The (extremely hot, btw) student correctly answered that most people including her, viewed gender through a traditional lens.

Even if the tranny didn't like that fact, it is unarguably correct.

Real reason for the 0/25 grade: jealousy. The tranny is ugly, the student is beuatiful.

There's no picture in the article, so I checked your work because I'm thorough that way. She is. She really, really is.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (Riz8t)

232 An the crisis behind the whole thing is that movie studios have nearly forgotten how to sustain a big movie or long running television product and satisfy fans.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (8avO+)

They have largely forgotten the art of film-making, of character development, of set-building and cinematography, of story-telling. They have been replaced by cookie-cutter woke, DEI, CGI.

Getting it back now is like finding the Atochia or the Ark.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (dK+Kv)

233 'Nature' publication is insane. One has to turn off his rational brain or read it as a parody of a psychedelic psychotic episode.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (SZI4T)

Nature has been bad for a long time, like a generation. And we don't mention Unscientific Unamerican.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (8avO+)

234 189 None of my schools had the stereotypical fat loudmouth bully.

Had one in 9th grade. He was an ass, but it turned out he and I were the best players in PE dodgeball. Always on different teams. There developed a grudging admiration, and he never messed with me throughout high school.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (2WIwB)

One of the stoner bullies in my high school ultimately ended up robbing a bank, getting caught because he went on some TV show while he was still on the run, and hung himself in prison.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (UnA8+)

235 K9 got bitten by a rattlesnake

gets dustoff to emergency vet

survives

https://x.com/RealSpitfire/status/
1996778957199249792

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (ZxPkt)

236 William Buckley expelled the Birchers, IIRC.

People say that a lot but I don't know what they mean by that. He did manage to persuade people, by speech, that they were not a good element in the Conservative movement.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (jc0TO)

237 Let me explain just how mentally insane this "crip[ guts" individual is. Have a seat. Pull up a well formed stool and listen up...

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (/iMjX)

238 Hey teacher! Leave them kids alone.

Posted by: The cycle continues at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (D+nng)

239 Unlike WordPress, Minx 0.8 beta can't auto-post based on timestamps. It would make a lot of our COB jobs a lot easier if it could...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I wonder if a program could be written to imitate a human finger pressing "post".

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (9bIJg)

240 At many universities (including Cal), students can actually devise their own courses, and then teach them.

99% of these student use the opportunity to concoct some woke garbage about anal sex and Barbie dolls, or whatever, but I'd like to device a class titled,

"Why are you so ugly? Why transgender morlocks will never "pass" in a nation of hot chicks."

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (oraVG)

241
Quick, best ad agency executive?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (O2XQw)

242 States should consider permitting high school grads to teach in elementary schools.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (rJ48h)

243 I sense the start of a new radical movement...

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (/iMjX)

244 Am I the only one that thinks Fulnecky sounds like a dirty word?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (5T6VE)

245 I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

What he did is idiotic… I heard the name Crowder but I’ve never watched/listened to him. He needs to read how to win friends and influence people

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (+kWhq)

246 Unlike WordPress, Minx 0.8 beta can't auto-post based on timestamps. It would make a lot of our COB jobs a lot easier if it could...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (ESVrU)

Tentatively scheduled for Minx 0.9 beta. Swearsies.

Posted by: The Hampsters at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (PiwSw)

247 239 Unlike WordPress, Minx 0.8 beta can't auto-post based on timestamps. It would make a lot of our COB jobs a lot easier if it could...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

======

I have had to, more than once, reach out to fellow COBs and ask them to post my thread when I was unavailable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

248 Professional Carnival Barkers are every bit as envious of their living as a union pipefitter or a public school "educator".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (JwNbV)

249 "Tor is the creation of the CIA/NSA, that's not really a good option."

Tor and all VPNs are honeypots for illicit posts. They're useful for getting to websites you might not be able to access otherwise, but it's really stupid to try to post illegal crap or do illegal business with them. Those are the very first places that the authorities look for bad stuff.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (GHIyr)

250
survives

https://x.com/RealSpitfire/status/
1996778957199249792
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (ZxPkt)

Ugh....why did they have to accompany the video with one of the worst songs ever recorded?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

251 219 "Helmut scribbled something on a napkin and then handed it to John for him to make an actual building out of it."

There's a doc about Gehry. He did an hour of 'work' pasting together a rando paper construction, then handed it off to henchmen to finish the crime for him.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (GHIyr)

There are real architects, who not only do the designs people want but also produce the documents and do the field work to be sure what gets built was what was designed.

Then there are the "design-y guys" who think they are God's gift to the world and toss off impossible sketches, and then hog the glory because they are so esoterically elite.

But dudes, it isn't a building without a toilet. And if the roof collapses, it isn't a building, either.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (6Bc88)

252 Also from Nature.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"In April 2024, the prestigious journal Nature released a study finding that climate change would cause far more economic damage by the end of the century than previous estimates had suggested...

On Wednesday, Nature retracted it."

-
It was pure Demoshit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (L/fGl)

253 Laugh now, but that homo just shit his way to a PHD.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (5T6VE)

254 222 I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.

He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (UnA8+)

255 244 Am I the only one that thinks Fulnecky sounds like a dirty word?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (5T6VE)

Confucius say, woman who do too much deepthroaty get Fulnecky.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (JwNbV)

256 The bamboo sidebar post is fire

Posted by: Corona_Exile at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (UqsCH)

257 Quick, best ad agency executive?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Durwood Stephens? I don't think he was an executive, just a worker bee. Larry Tate was the executive, since his name was on the firm.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

258 200 Warren Zevon would like to have a chat...

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (Q0yOR)

259 I wonder if a program could be written to imitate a human finger pressing "post".
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (9bIJg)
---
I've been trying to train one of my cats, but she's not very cooperative.

She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)

260 >Quick, best ad agency executive?
----

Larry Tate

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ZxPkt)

261 We got snow.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ynBxV)

262 They'll just toss you out and keep your money.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (8avO+)
_______________________

They'd have to show cause. And, I have nothing to lose. If I comply with their policies, they're going to have a hard time tossing me. And, to be honest, that might be my goal in the first place. Easier to make a lot more noise that way.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (dIske)

Republican speakers have been repeatedly driven out for a decade. Just saying.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (8avO+)

263 222
‘ But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.’

More than that it’s foolish. Who the hell want s to be talked to like that? I hope she finds another venue if that’s the shit Crowder is pulling.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (jbnUc)

264 There's no picture in the article, so I checked your work because I'm thorough that way.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM

I thought that kind of hard-hitting Commentator journalism was reserved for the ONT?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (0sNs1)

265 Durwood Stephens? I don't think he was an executive, just a worker bee. Larry Tate was the executive, since his name was on the firm.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM

Darrin was an ideas man.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (jc0TO)

266
Nature?
Nature ain't no Field & Stream.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (cPNKV)

267 Did the man charged with planting pipe bombs found near the Republican and Democratic headquarters in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, sue the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security over illegal immigration? No, that's not true: Legal disputes referenced in a Daily Wire article making that claim confused suspect Brian Cole Jr. with his father Brian Cole Sr. It also misrepresented the nature of the legal disputes, which did not involve illegal immigration policies and were separated by several years from the pipe bomb discovery.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (RHGPo)

268 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (I1wnM)

269 I wonder if a program could be written to imitate a human finger pressing "post".
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (9bIJg)
---
I've been trying to train one of my cats, but she's not very cooperative.

She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)

One of my cats has managed to rename a desktop icon by walking on the keyboard. More than I can do.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (8avO+)

270 Shut up, dunce.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (jc0TO)

271 Quick, best ad agency executive?
----

Larry Tate
Posted by: Don Black

Don Draper.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (9bIJg)

272 I've been trying to train one of my cats, but she's not very cooperative.

She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)

Put some tape over the "delete" button.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (dK+Kv)

273 242 States should consider permitting high school grads to teach in elementary schools.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (rJ48h)

You know what you need to know to teach 3rd grade math? 4th grade math.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (6Bc88)

274 Don Draper.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM

I'd trust Don to move my cigarette brand.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (jc0TO)

275 >> One of my cats has managed to rename a desktop icon by walking on the keyboard. More than I can do.

Same here. One of the cats has found some very arcane keyboard shortcuts I had no idea existed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (w6EFb)

276 Orson, that sounds amazing! Godspeed to you and your wife.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (Eng1Z)

277 But dudes, it isn't a building without a toilet. And if the roof collapses, it isn't a building, either.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (6Bc8

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I teach a class in a computer lab that's also used by architectural engineering students. There's a poster showing the design of some sort of sustainable apartment. But it's missing at least a couple of key features: 1) A kitchen area where food can be prepared and 2) A utility closet for the water heater and HVAC system.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (ESVrU)

278 Put some tape over the "delete" button.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM

Glue her paw to the enter key.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (jc0TO)

279 Quick, best ad agency executive?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Durwood Stephens? I don't think he was an executive, just a worker bee. Larry Tate was the executive, since his name was on the firm.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

Darrin got all the top assignments though, so he was their best creative guy.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

280 I think there was one ep of Bewitched where Larry Tate's partner McMahon showed up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (77rzZ)

281 275 Cat-testing is an essential stage in software quality assurance.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (GHIyr)

282 139 "Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire!"
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)

Mel Brooks is/was a FREAKING GENIUS, shame that he probably couldn't make ANY of his movies today.

I thought that was Chuck Jones. Michigan J. Frog.

From Wikipedia:
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD credits Frog's original singing vocals to Bill Roberts, a nightclub entertainer in Los Angeles in the 1950s who had also done voice work for the 1948 MGM cartoon Little 'Tinker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_J._Frog

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (X5qGl)

283 >>> in Missouri was captured apparently hanging the American flag upside down outside their campus.

I forgot to mention this in the Somalia thread...they redid the MN state flag, and it looks almost EXACTLY like the Somalia flag.

Coincidence? That state?

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (Eng1Z)

284 You know what you need to know to teach 3rd grade math? 4th grade math.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (6Bc8

Woo Hoo!

Posted by: Jethro Bodine, future math teacher at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (PiwSw)

285 Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive."
---
I think there's a legitimate criticism that you can hold a student to "empirical evidence" standard, but it's silly to object that it's "offensive".

There are far more offensive things people can say about sex difference, like an Muslim, for example.

However, I would then need to examine what "empirical evidence" people holding other positions brought to the table.

"Yeah, it just seems society made it all up" (and yet it is some sort of innate fact about me how I "identify"), does not really apply as "empirical".

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (krQz2)

286 Unless my memory is bad I think you and I compared notes in these gray boxes a few years ago and decided we might’ve been contemporaries at ISU in Ames in the 80s? I was there then….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (+kWhq)

I was at ISU in Ames in the early 90s. I should've bought one of the "Ames in Flames" T-shirts from the VEISHEA riots before they were banned.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (2ocoG)

287 I wish more people would quote the Quran. The public would put up with a lot loss bullshit from the Muslims if they knew what those lunatics actually believe.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (5T6VE)

288
Um, I'm pretty sure Darren Stephens and his secretary were the only two employees at McMahon & Tate.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (cPNKV)

289 "Quick, best ad agency executive?"

Dale Carnegie.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (GHIyr)

290 Frank Gehry has died. His crypt will be the ugliest in the cemetery

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (bfwj/)

291 231 The (extremely hot, btw) student correctly answered that most people including her, viewed gender through a traditional lens.

Even if the tranny didn't like that fact, it is unarguably correct.

Real reason for the 0/25 grade: jealousy. The tranny is ugly, the student is beuatiful.

There's no picture in the article, so I checked your work because I'm thorough that way. She is. She really, really is.
Posted by: Archimedes

For the curious:

Samantha Fulnecky:

https://x.com/IrishStarUS/status/1996014011041665035

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ samantha-fulnecky-claims-university-oklahoma-only-responded -her-zero-grade-essay-complaint-due-1759807

Scorching.

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (oraVG)

292 Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (2WIwB)
______________________

I was a big kid in school. 6'6" about 200lb. I developed a reputation for being the kid someone talked to when someone was getting a little out of line. I might have stuffed a trouble maker (who had a reputation for being a real dick) in a locker after he smacked someone in front o me. I, also, might have turned around and been surprised by the Superintendent of Schools standing behind me when I turned around from that endeavor....who very calmly looked at me, the kid half in the locker and said, "Everything alright here?" before continuing down the hall. He knew the kid in the locker was a problem, and figured this was a good learning experience for him. I got no punishment from that.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (dIske)

293 Damn. I think I want another post about Christmas Carols.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (GD2xa)

294 The real tragedy here is that a "graduate instructor" was teaching college classes. How much are these students paying for this education? They should at least get real professors, not DEI tranny freaks who are barely older than they are.

And this is in ... Oklahoma. Reddest of red states.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (iFTx/)

295 Darrin got all the top assignments though, so he was their best creative guy.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

Darrin won all the big accounts with the help of his wife’s twitchy nose. He claimed to hate the Magic but it always seemed to end up helping him

BTW… Samantha was HOT! Prime Elizabeth Montgomery yum

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (OW907)

296
I like how this fuckface (above) runs over here from Reddit and thinks he's got us.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (cPNKV)

297 I teach a class in a computer lab that's also used by architectural engineering students. There's a poster showing the design of some sort of sustainable apartment. But it's missing at least a couple of key features: 1) A kitchen area where food can be prepared and 2) A utility closet for the water heater and HVAC system.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (ESVrU)

Design in school is flights of fancy, but hopefully the work makes the students know how to think.

Real design doesn't happen until OTJ training. That's where the reality of building science enters.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (6Bc88)

298
I was blown away when I was in college when I learned that professors, Ph.D's in the their subjects, could not teach that subject in the public school system. Why, you've got to have Edu degrees and all sorts of psycho-socio crap to do that. Totally blew me away, then a light bulb went off on what that really says about the educational system. It ain't about teaching kids knowledge.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (w6EFb)

299 I think there was one ep of Bewitched where Larry Tate's partner McMahon showed up.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM

Played by Leon Ames.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (jc0TO)

300 296
I like how this fuckface (above) runs over here from Reddit and thinks he's got us.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (cPNKV)

======

I'm convinced he's from Delhi or something.

Nothing animates him more than stories about immigrants, especially those from the subcontinent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

301 285 I think there's a legitimate criticism that you can hold a student to "empirical evidence" standard, but it's silly to object that it's "offensive".

There are far more offensive things people can say about sex difference, like an Muslim, for example.

However, I would then need to examine what "empirical evidence" people holding other positions brought to the table.

"Yeah, it just seems society made it all up" (and yet it is some sort of innate fact about me how I "identify"), does not really apply as "empirical".
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (krQz2)

Even I got away with not doing an assignment, as assigned, once, by writing a note explaining why, the same length as the assignment had to be.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (UnA8+)

302 We got snow.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ynBxV)

We've got bush!

Posted by: Booger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

303 I saw Queer Stoma Pride play with The Indigo Girls at the Dinah Shore Pro Am in 1982.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (wGerL)

304 For the curious:

Samantha Fulnecky:

https://x.com/IrishStarUS/status/1996014011041665035

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ samantha-fulnecky-claims-university-oklahoma-only-responded -her-zero-grade-essay-complaint-due-1759807

Scorching.

Posted by: zombie

I think we have finally resolved the "Is zombie a dude or a chick?" question.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (Riz8t)

305 The Michigan J. Frog reference was parodied in a scene from the movie Spaceballs starring John Hurt, who reprised his memorable scene from the movie Alien.

man's original riff at #108 stands.

Posted by: AoSHQ Unofficial Referee at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (PiwSw)

306 I've been trying to train one of my cats, but she's not very cooperative.

She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)

Put some tape over the "delete" button.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (dK+Kv)

You need something firmer. I used to have a computer with a flush power button on the top and my cat jumped up there a time or so and powered down. I got an old DVD case and put it over the button. My new one has a button on a diagonal bit of plastic the cats don't walk on yet.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (8avO+)

307 He knew the kid in the locker was a problem, and figured this was a good learning experience for him. I got no punishment from that.

When I broke the 8th grade bully's nose the principal and faculty put on a public display of "of course he'll be punished" and then ran into the office, closed the door, and laughed their asses off.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (2ocoG)

308 I wish more people would quote the Quran. The public would put up with a lot loss bullshit from the Muslims if they knew what those lunatics actually believe.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (5T6VE)

--------------

Christian and Jewish multimillionaires should fund an educational advertising campaign along those lines.

From billboards to web ads ... and a within the first hour of those appearing, a District Clown Court Judge would likely ban it as "hate speech."

Win-Win?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (pTQH2)

309 I like how this fuckface (above) runs over here from Reddit and thinks he's got us.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (cPNKV)

======

I'm convinced he's from Delhi or something.

Nothing animates him more than stories about immigrants, especially those from the subcontinent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
______

Who?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

310 DNA is not empirical evidence. - some stupid professor

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (n5tGW)

311 i reject the colonial fake excuse.

Just say you are a nonperforming pussy.

We get it. We all get it. Sometimes i feel like a pussy.

But i don't change earth science and history.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (EyfuW)

312 309 Who?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

=====

Shit eater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

313 It's McMann & Tate, btw.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (jc0TO)

314 I was at ISU in Ames in the early 90s. I should've bought one of the "Ames in Flames" T-shirts from the VEISHEA riots before they were banned.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (2ocoG)

I was a student at ISU for the original VEISHA riot in 88. Years later after several similar “disturbances” when they eliminated VEISHA it made me sad…. So glad it was still around when I was there… 2-3 extra days in spring semester with no class!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (OW907)

315 We got snow.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ynBxV)

We've got bush!

Posted by: Booger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

Oh Hair pie! Hair pie!

Posted by: Takashi at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (dK+Kv)

316 308 Christian and Jewish multimillionaires should fund an educational advertising campaign along those lines.

From billboards to web ads ... and a within the first hour of those appearing, a District Clown Court Judge would likely ban it as "hate speech."

Win-Win?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (pTQH2)

The Quran is just the start. There's even nastier shit in the Hadiths.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (UnA8+)

317 "I used to have a computer with a flush power button on the top"

I pry the power-off and hibernate keys off all my keyboards. No more hitting them by accident.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GHIyr)

318 More Samantha:

https://___-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/ tenant/amp/entityid/AA1RHBbn.___? w=1920&h=1080&q=60&m=2&f=jpg

(remove spaces.)

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (oraVG)

319 Dang -- stupid pixy.

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (oraVG)

320
Shit eater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

Well, his initials are ASS, so......

Posted by: Booger at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

321
Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.

He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM

Crowder has always pinged the gaydar

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (tljrc)

322 BTW… Samantha was HOT! Prime Elizabeth Montgomery yum
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

*fistbump*

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

323 Damn.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

324 @306 cover the keyboard with tin foil. Cats hate that stuff

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (bfwj/)

325
The instructor, identified in university records as Mel Curth -- a biological male who identifies as a woman -- gave her zero out of 25 points

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His name was Curse, but he changed the spelling to incorporate his lisp.

This gratuitous drama was instigated by this weirdo for its own sake. He'd rather be the center of attention than have a paycheck.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (VWtfl)

326 Who?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

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Shit eater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)
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Oh that perverted loser. I don't bother to look at any of his comments.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)

327 Try that again:

More Samantha:

https://im g-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/ tenant/amp/entityid/AA1RHBbn.im g?w=1920&h=1080&q=60&m=2&f=jpg

(remove spaces.)

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (oraVG)

328 Darrin got all the top assignments though, so he was their best creative guy.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

Darrin won all the big accounts with the help of his wife’s twitchy nose. He claimed to hate the Magic but it always seemed to end up helping him

BTW… Samantha was HOT! Prime Elizabeth Montgomery yum
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (OW907)

So you admit Darrin was pretty smart in a creative way by finding a witch to marry.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (8avO+)

329 326
Shit eater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)
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Oh that perverted loser. I don't bother to look at any of his comments.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)

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He does tend to fixate on one thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

330
Speaking of the gaslighting idiots at Reddit...

Did you see this?

Supposed "air traffic controllers" on a reddit group are plotting "revenge?" Openly.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (cPNKV)

331 I have absolutely no recollection of John Hurt's being in Spaceballs.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

332 So you admit Darrin was pretty smart in a creative way by finding a witch to marry.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (8avO+)

Yes! LoL

And he found a HOT witch to marry

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (OW907)

333 Speaking of the gaslighting idiots at Reddit...

Did you see this?

Supposed "air traffic controllers" on a reddit group are plotting "revenge?" Openly.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (cPNKV)

Revenge on who for what?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

334 I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.

He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (UnA8+)
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This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

335 How old was Samantha? How many "Darrins" had there been before and what happened to them?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)

336 So you admit Darrin was pretty smart in a creative way by finding a witch to marry.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (8avO+)

Yes! LoL

And he found a HOT witch to marry
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Except, he didn't know she was a witch until after they were married. Samantha revealed it on their wedding night.

However, once she had told him the truth, she gave him permission to divorce her if he wished. For obvious reasons, he decided against it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

337 I mean, I don't want to go all Skeleton Key on the lighthearted comedy Bewitched but, one has to wonder.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (jc0TO)

338 @331 he reprised one of his iconic scenes from Alien.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (WPL6O)

339 Bless Mel Brooks for plugging away, but I doubt Spaceballs 2 will be good, unless they assemble all the original cast. And Candy is dead. The two other guys that wrote Spaceballs with Brooks are dead. And Gene Wilder is gone as well, can't go to him to write a script like Young Frankenstein. Ah well.

Oh, I saw the new Guillermo del Toro version of Frankenstein and loved it! It hits home the themes so well, of the egotistical prometheus Frankenstein flying too close to the sun and failing, and was visually gorgeous and disturbing.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (Eng1Z)

340 I wish more people would quote the Quran. The public would put up with a lot loss bullshit from the Muslims if they knew what those lunatics actually believe.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (5T6VE)

there's some dude who used to show up on YT who is the son of a Hamas higher up and can do that chapter and verse to dumb sympathizer kids here. Not sure if he's been shadowbanned by the algorithm tho.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (8avO+)

341 This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

He did come off as a dick but if you record your spouse in an argument and you're the only one who knows you're recording you're gonna come out smelling like a rose so it was a shitty thing to do.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (RgYBC)

342 However, once she had told him the truth, she gave him permission to divorce her if he wished. For obvious reasons, he decided against it.

He feared being turned into a dung beetle?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (Riz8t)

343 334 I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.

He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (UnA8+)
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This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

So, what you're saying is, he now also needs the money, and is probably falling into full grifter land for the Uniparty...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (tOcjL)

344 1) Stoma is Greek for mouth. In medical terms for a pouch. Has nothing to do with assholes who are offended.

2) Orifice is the word they should be clinging to as they bang them open in evil methods.

3) Trans are evil and therefore demonic along with furries. It all started with the gheys and LBGQT recognition as a protected class.

I want to start a factory for millstones for pedos, trans, furries and now gheys of all stripe. I think there is a need for this.The millstones will be made of solid concrete and dipped in liquid manure, then secured to femurs with titanium. If they live they can drag them around until the better use in the lake of fire.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (WONhk)

345 Do the other witches consider Samantha marrying mortals a sexual kink?

I have many questions.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (jc0TO)

346 334 This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

That was him, yeah. Quite a few of his on-screen staffers left around the same time ("Not Gay" Jared, Quarter-Black Garrett, and Dave Landau).

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (UnA8+)

347 Except, he didn't know she was a witch until after they were married. Samantha revealed it on their wedding night.

However, once she had told him the truth, she gave him permission to divorce her if he wished. For obvious reasons, he decided against it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

suuuuuuuuuure he didn't know. Her ability to hide the odd things happening was pretty low in the show.

I'm telling you, he spotted her a mile off.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (8avO+)

348 Five frickin hours of Telemann:
youtube.com/watch?v=oGJoQsBDQ58

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (GHIyr)

349 NOOD DOJ lawsuit

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (/HDaX)

350 This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

He did come off as a dick but if you record your spouse in an argument and you're the only one who knows you're recording you're gonna come out smelling like a rose so it was a shitty thing to do.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (RgYBC)
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It was his own surveillance camera pointed right into the area of the backyard where the two of them were

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

351

nooood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (cPNKV)

352 If I found out that my wife was a sorceress, I would wonder if my sexual stamina was all my own or a spell.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

353 Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive."
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I think there's a legitimate criticism that you can hold a student to "empirical evidence" standard, but it's silly to object that it's "offensive".

There are far more offensive things people can say about sex difference, like an Muslim, for example.

However, I would then need to examine what "empirical evidence" people holding other positions brought to the table.

"Yeah, it just seems society made it all up" (and yet it is some sort of innate fact about me how I "identify"), does not really apply as "empirical".
Posted by: Axeman

Here's where the faggot fucked up:

Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive." Fulnecky pushed back, noting the prompt never required empirical sourcing and that university policy explicitly protects religious expression.

The class didn't require it. It was more of a "feels" instead of empirical data with footnotes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (9bIJg)

354 331 I have absolutely no recollection of John Hurt's being in Spaceballs.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

https://youtu.be/otJ2rXMuLno

Posted by: AoSHQ Unofficial Referee at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (PiwSw)

355 331 I have absolutely no recollection of John Hurt's being in Spaceballs.
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Not again!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (0bjKf)

356 How old was Samantha? How many "Darrins" had there been before and what happened to them?
Posted by: toby928(c)

There was an episode that sort of addressed Samantha's age. Endora, as usual, was trying to stir up trouble between them, and told Darrin how Samantha would age much more slowly than he, and would outlive him by a long time. When Darrin confronted Sam, she said that she would simply use her witchcraft to make herself look the same age as he as time went on. (Though what the problem would have been with her remaining her young and beautiful self eludes me.)

There was never any suggestion that Samantha had been married before, only that she had had prior warlock beaus, a few of whom turned up in the course of the series (egged on by Endora, of course).

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)

357 Do the other witches consider Samantha marrying mortals a sexual kink?

I have many questions.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (jc0TO)

Not that I saw, more of a social stigma than anything else even the mother in law just calls him by the wrong name on purpose. Once a baby came even she was mollified.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (8avO+)

358 Pretending to require "empiric evidence" on a psychology assignment is laughable from the get go. It's psychology for crying out loud. A field of study based on feelings.

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (/iMjX)

359 Crowder was a dick when he had that stupid spat a couple years ago with The Daily Wire too.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (GHIyr)

360 It was cute the way Tabitha had to use her finger to twitch her nose. IIRC

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (/iMjX)

361 There was never any suggestion that Samantha had been married before, only that she had had prior warlock beaus, a few of whom turned up in the course of the series (egged on by Endora, of course).
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)

I think there was some allusion to her (Samantha) being alive at the time of the Salem witch trials.

her mother's name implies that she is the biblical Witch of Endor from the old Testament.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (8avO+)

362 I LIKE a bunch of the new crop of moderate dems that found in the Trump era, there's no place for them in the democrat party anymore: Tulsi, Dave Rubin, Jillian, etc.

I like Dave Rubin, but I distrust him on the grounds of "gay couple adopting boys". I want him to be the exception to that pattern, but pattern recognition kept people alive for thousands of years.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (2ocoG)

363 Crowder was a dick when he had that stupid spat a couple years ago with The Daily Wire too.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (GHIyr)

Not sure which side is being a dick in that confrontation. DW has its own history.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (8avO+)

364 >>> So, what you're saying is, he now also needs the money, and is probably falling into full grifter land for the Uniparty... Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (tOcjL)

I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quaretering, Crowder...

A lot of them hooked themselves to Rumble...is it a problem with Rumble not getting the eyeballs Youtube gets? Is it the political off-season? Gen Zers who voted Trump getting disillusioned by politics and tuning out? Or something deeper?

But Megyn Kelly's media group empire seems to be growing still. And Adam Carolla's pirate ship keeps sailing smoothly. And Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (Eng1Z)

365 A lot of them hooked themselves to Rumble...is it a problem with Rumble not getting the eyeballs Youtube gets? Is it the political off-season? Gen Zers who voted Trump getting disillusioned by politics and tuning out? Or something deeper?

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (Eng1Z)

Rumble is usually resorted to because YT is already shadowbanning them out of profitability.

Not sure about Crowder but the Wire kinda repeated the mistake the MSM made. Bad side projects like movies, large staff not involved in making content, expensive studios.

I also think Gen Z was never getting its news from there.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (8avO+)

366
The main problem is higher education is nothing like real life. It's basically a 4 to 6 year "lifestyle" resort party for most students.

By the time the students graduate, they've spent all their adult life in a fantasyland.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (Vh9CX)

Student loans are mostly spent in the beer garden at the student union, cannabis dispensaries and liquor stores selling kegs just outside of the university grounds.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (y9nCu)

367
The main problem is higher education is nothing like real life. It's basically a 4 to 6 year "lifestyle" resort party for most students.

By the time the students graduate, they've spent all their adult life in a fantasyland.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

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I'm way late to the thread, but have you visited a college campus lately? I went to 4 about 3 weeks ago (during the term) and they were practically graveyards. It was ridiculously easy to park. I think "distance learning" is still in effect in many places, and the happy, busy thing called "campus life" that many of us enjoyed is gone. For people entering college during the COVID era, the campus experience is walking across mostly-empty courtyards and wandering down empty hallways where all the doors are locked. Whole suites of offices locked off for security, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2025 03:59 PM (vPhiR)

368 Crowder was a dick when he had that stupid spat a couple years ago with The Daily Wire too.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (GHIyr)
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He actually had his points. DW was going to pay him based on his engagement on platforms like Youtube.

Crowder's point is that youtube had gone out of its way on numerous times to demonstrate that they don't want *honest conversation* unless all the words are approved.

It's funny watching all the people who have adapted to the "New Rules" of Youtube saying "self-delete" for suicide and "grape" because they can't say "rape".

It's like watching Die Hard on broadcast TV and hearing "Yippee-ki-yay, Mother-father".

Which the hip crowd for decades thought was so ridiculous. But decades later, you can't say a rape was a "rape" on Youtube. You can't say somebody "committed suicide". Because Youtube has become like the old censors arguing that you can't tell the difference between reference and promotion, apparently.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (krQz2)

369 The author calls for "queer stoma pride," which celebrates "the leakiness of bodies which disrupt boundaries" and "requires more collective and relational modes of knowledge production which value embodied experiential knowledge, holistic healing, and reject the idea that normality is a neutral desirable location." It further "focuses on imaginings of alternative, more expansive bodily futures which foreground agency and a joyous plurality of bodies beyond category, refusing the idea that non-normative bodies are a site of unwantedness."

OK then

Posted by: javems at December 05, 2025 04:12 PM (8I4hW)

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