#SafeSpace: Jason Riley, Black Conservative Journalist, Disinvited from Virginia Tech Speech When They Realize He's a Black Conservative

A prominent conservative intellectual and critic of identity politics has been disinvited from a scheduled lecture at Virginia Tech over concerns about his race-related scholarship.
Jason Riley, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Wall Street Journal columnist, was slated to speak at a lecture series hosted by the university’s business school, the BB&T Distinguished Lecture. But Virginia Tech higher-ups worried his controversial opinions would cause a scene.
"Mr. Riley, who is black, has attracted some negative attention since his publication in 2014 of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed," wrote National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood in the pages of National Review, which broke the story.
According to a memo obtained by Mr. Wood, the head of the Virginia Tech Finance Department, Professor Vijay Singal, vetoed the speaking arrangement. He worried the campus was still recovering from the last BB&T Distinguished Lecture, which was delivered by Charles Murray on March 25.

"Still recovering" from a lecture -- you know, like a battalion of badly shot-up troops needs to recover from a battle.

As mentioned there, National Review broke the story:

The head of the finance department had not initially objected to Riley as the next BB&T speaker but later, when he realized that Riley had"written about race issues" in the Wall Street Journal, he decided Riley would have to go. The department head and others in the finance department "worried about more protests from the looney left" and were unmoved by arguments that it was wrong to give in to such intimidation.
...
What makes Jason Riley’s disinvitation notable, though, is how little prompted it. No students threatened to protest his speech or wrote editorials denouncing his views. No one picketed the finance department. Riley’s speech hadn't even been announced on campus. Mere fear of potential protest swayed Virginia Tech to cancel Riley’s pending event.

It gets worse. Because now Virginia Tech is claiming they never invited Jason Riley in the first place.

.@virginia_tech disinvited me to speak and now says I was never invited. Paper trail shows that's a blatant lie. https://t.co/csaNUcCUtC
— Jason Riley (@jasonrileywsj) May 4, 2016

Read their claims here. They say it wasn't an "official" invitation.

[A] Virginia Tech official said on Tuesday that Mr. Riley's invitation could not have been revoked because it was never extended in the first place.

This sure sounds like an invitation:

"I don't buy this line that I wasn’t invited," Riley said when reached by telephone Tuesday at his Manhattan office.
He said he first received an invitation from Tech finance professor Douglas Patterson about three weeks ago. That invitation included past lecture series speakers, topics and logistical information about spending the night in Blacksburg.
"Based on my understanding of the English language it sounded like an invitation to me," Riley said.

Why is Virginia Tech lying about him not being technically "invited"? For the same reason an adulterous priest continues to give sermons about fidelity.

The left no longer believes in free speech. They are having wild, passionate sex with censorship. The sex is hotter because it's illicit and forbidden.

Yet, the community still expects them to pretend they believe in fidelity to free speech. They might feel a certain obligation to pretend to still believe in it.

But they don't.

They're censors. What they believe in is #SafeSpaces and #RecoveryPlayDoh.

But they still have to put on this sugar-wouldn't-melt-in-our-mouths purity act about giving a shit about free speech.

Our universities are now the most hostile place in the country to actual thought.

What can't go on, will not.

Posted by: Ace at 11:03 AM

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1 What's this? An ace post before the crack of noon?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 04, 2016 11:05 AM (Wckf4)

2 Excellent book by Mr. Riley, BTW.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 04, 2016 11:05 AM (IdCqF)

3 Stupid bastards.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:05 AM (mcm0N)

4 FIRE!

Posted by: Arthur Brown at May 04, 2016 11:06 AM (KvWlw)

5 So... I guess chilling's a thing, huh?

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 04, 2016 11:07 AM (V40IZ)

6 Just like now that it effects the socialist, voter fraud's a concern.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 04, 2016 11:08 AM (V40IZ)

7 This is just more evidence of how complete the Left's long march has been. This was the business school, presumably a hotbed of far rightwing capitalists learning their craft on how to destroy mankind with money,

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 04, 2016 11:08 AM (Wckf4)

8 I'm beginning to have second thoughts about America.

I mean, I 'love' my country but I'm not 'in love' with my country anymore.

I'm open to seeing Canada or Belize on the side.

Posted by: LOL Kabong at May 04, 2016 11:08 AM (datdl)

9 So our so called institutions of higher education are now nothing more than day care and sleepaway camps to be rid of young adults for a time, albeit at great expense. Anything that might upset the children from their fantasies simply cannot be allowed.

Thus civilization fails for lack of competent adults.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 04, 2016 11:09 AM (IdCqF)

10 God. It's bad enough to hear this nonsense happen at other universities, but it hits a little closer to home when it's your alma mater.

Posted by: redsweater at May 04, 2016 11:09 AM (IMo04)

11 He should say he identifies as a white lesbian. Problem solved.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 04, 2016 11:10 AM (LgrFs)

12 "I'm beginning to have second thoughts about America."

I wish I could get out, but I can't. I don't want to witness what's going to happen to the country that used to be my country.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at May 04, 2016 11:11 AM (eHpnh)

13 the department "worried about more protests from the looney left" and were unmoved by arguments that it was wrong to give in to such intimidation.

******

Sigh. Anyways for some reason this reminds me of that recent HBO crap--Confirmation (which was about the Clarence Thomas hearings). Lovely how they made that available during their free weekend.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:11 AM (mcm0N)

14
Is it too early to invoke Godwin's Law? Because we seem to be heading straight into the teeth of some Nuremburg-style laws.

The veneer of tolerance and "diversity" is rapidly melting and revealing the true face of Gorgo the Friendly Angel.

And it ain't pretty.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2016 11:11 AM (p4UlV)

15
Good Morning Boss.

Youre up early.... or still insomniating.

Now to read the content.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2016 11:12 AM (8XRCm)

16 7 This is just more evidence of how complete the Left's long march has been. This was the business school, presumably a hotbed of far rightwing capitalists learning their craft on how to destroy mankind with money,

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 04, 2016 11:08 AM (Wckf4)

If it ever hits an ag department, you know it's truly over.

Posted by: redsweater at May 04, 2016 11:12 AM (IMo04)

17 Somebody else said this first but I want a bumper sticker that says it.

Next safe space 103 miles

Posted by: the littl shyning man at May 04, 2016 11:12 AM (U6f54)

18 Maybe he should ask for the key to the ladies restroom.

Posted by: ALH at May 04, 2016 11:13 AM (uLuPn)

19
There's no "paper trail" showing the invitation. It seems to have been a phone conversation. I look forward to Riley's further comments:

"He said he would have a column about the situation in an upcoming edition of the Wall Street Journal."

Posted by: iforgot at May 04, 2016 11:13 AM (pC96u)

20 These clowns deserve a #SafeSpace...in Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:13 AM (FsuaD)

21 11 He should say he identifies as a white lesbian. Problem solved.
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 04, 2016 11:10 AM (LgrFs)

Black transgendering lesbian lactating granny golden shower midget.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2016 11:13 AM (p4UlV)

22 Frankly I prefer the brutal honesty of the Trigglypuff SJW types rather than this circuitous bullshit.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:13 AM (g8Hfr)

23 I'd like to think it can't go on, but ... ?

Posted by: FellowAmerican at May 04, 2016 11:13 AM (xQWR8)

24 10 God. It's bad enough to hear this nonsense happen at other universities, but it hits a little closer to home when it's your alma mater.
Posted by: redsweater at May 04, 2016 11:09 AM (IMo04)

**********

I never thought of this school as--crazy liberal.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (mcm0N)

25 11 He should say he identifies as a white lesbian. Problem solved.
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 04, 2016 11:10 AM (LgrFs)

Mr. H says he is a lesbian.

Posted by: ALH at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (uLuPn)

26 willowed:

196 Grammie how goes the wedding planning?
Posted by: ThunderB at May 04, 2016 11:05 AM (zOTsN)
=========================================
Shoot. Thanks for reminding me, ThunderB. I'm supposed to call the boat people and the caterer this morning. Also I'm going to try and track down my yet-to-be-delivered dress that I ordered January 8th.

Gotta get crackin, otherwise I'm going to have a naked wedding with no food.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2016 11:08 AM (dFi94)

Old and busted: Grammie is an old fuddy-duddy.
Hot new meme: Grammie is going to have a nood wedding.

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (e8ge6)

27
What the National Association of Scholars is not - a national association of scholars.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (BK3ZS)

28 How does this help Michelle's children?

Posted by: blaster at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (2Ocf1)

29
Sonny says, "I'm cuckold for Triggly Puffs!"

Kaboom!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (p4UlV)

30 If only there were a better, cheaper, more efficient way to share information. of course it would have to be huge, even world wide.

Posted by: x at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (nFwvY)

31 Wow, Jason Riley personifies #blackonblackviolence! He needs a #safespace from himself...

Unbelievable. Well, actually not any more. Free speech is only free for those on the left. They who promote "tolerance" and "diversity" and inclusiveness" are anything but!

Posted by: runningrn at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (sUP4M)

32 Ridiculous.

Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (dpnZC)

33 >>>Youre up early.... or still insomniating.

i was tired enough that i fell asleep by 1:40. which is early for me.

I could have fallen asleep earlier but I stupidly drank a big soda at like 9pm.

it's a bad thing when you're tired. on one hand, you want to dispel the tiredness. on the other hand, you just delayed sleep by an hour.

anyway i'm semi-rested. still could not get more than 6 hours of sleep though.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:15 AM (dciA+)

34 Let a hundred flowers bloom. As long as they lean left.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2016 11:15 AM (SfJ5c)

35 That's it. Piss on the fire and call in the dogs. This hunt's over.

Nice country we had there.

Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at May 04, 2016 11:15 AM (hhirG)

36 Words fail me sometimes.

"Comrade you must be protected from words and thoughts that could hurt you! Words and thoughts like individual responsibility and freedom."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2016 11:15 AM (hWrM7)

37 I woke up this morning feeling about the same as I did the morning after Barry's re-election.

Doomed.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:16 AM (FsuaD)

38 The left no longer believes in free speech. They are having wild, passionate sex with censorship. The sex is hotter because it's illicit and forbidden.

--

I don't think they ever did. They only believe in power. Everything that gives them more power.
So while they were in the minority, they yelled "free speech!!!!" So they could infect the young with their commie memes.
Now they're in power, it's all "ban h8 speech!!!"'where h8 is any form of dissent.

Posted by: @votermom ignorant populist at May 04, 2016 11:16 AM (nbrY/)

39 33 Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:15 AM (dciA+)

You do realize that the light from LCD screens, especially in the evening hours before bed time, is a big factor in insomnia?

Occupational hazard.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2016 11:16 AM (p4UlV)

40 So...the protesters at UMass screamed at the speakers that they were all white, which meant they had no legitimacy with any non-whites in the audience.

Now a black speaker is disinvited from VA Tech because he is black, but does not hold the appropriately "black" views.

We're officially through the looking glass.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2016 11:16 AM (NOIQH)

41 Jason Riley is just like that black sheriff in Blazing Saddles...

Posted by: runningrn at May 04, 2016 11:16 AM (sUP4M)

42 Shine a light on it. It's the best we can do.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 04, 2016 11:16 AM (xuouz)

43 24 Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (mcm0N)

Mizzou should have been a canary in the coal mine.

Every campus that is not overtly Christian is in the thrall of this idiocy I'd wager.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:16 AM (g8Hfr)

44 30 Posted by: x at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (nFwvY)

Oh what a tangled web we weave . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2016 11:17 AM (p4UlV)

45
I could have fallen asleep earlier but I stupidly drank a big soda at like 9pm.

There! You see?!

Now, do you acknowledge that Nanny Bloomberg only had your best interests in mind when he banned Big Gulps?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2016 11:17 AM (BK3ZS)

46 Godwin's Law is bullshit. It just another version of --censorship.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:17 AM (mcm0N)

47 This sounds Hokie

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2016 11:17 AM (JO9+V)

48 I'll have to ask our son if he triggered any more campus snowflakes when he comes to dinner tonight.

He seems to have a ~~knack~~ gift.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:17 AM (FsuaD)

49 I'll come back and comment after I read the post. It will be about an hour I guess.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 04, 2016 11:17 AM (vvmPQ)

50 The horror of being challenged by positions different from my own makes me feel like I need another ice-cream cone.

*holds out waffle-cone*

Chocolate, Please!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:18 AM (OQ9R7)

51 I blame Bush for this. No wait, that's so 2006. I blame Trump for this.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 04, 2016 11:18 AM (LgrFs)

52 Every day, I wake up and I ask myself if I still live in America. It is absolutely heartbreaking and outrageous all at the same time.

Posted by: runningrn at May 04, 2016 11:18 AM (sUP4M)

53 We're officially through the looking glass.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2016 11:16 AM (NOIQH)

The left ignores this, and when forced to face it, rationalizes or even openly supports it.

The hour is late.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 04, 2016 11:18 AM (xuouz)

54 If we can't beat them, go around them. It's time to take these kinds of events off-campus and make them requirements for class credit.

Posted by: Wendy at May 04, 2016 11:18 AM (bpemY)

55 It's all about ideology. Christina Hoff Sommers isn't really a woman, Milo Yiannopoulos isn't really gay...hell, they aren't even people because they don't march in lock step with progressive SJW lunacy.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2016 11:18 AM (0mRoj)

56 The new me Rule #1. Read Ace's content, then comment.

But I have few words.. we are living with insanity at it's finest.

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2016 11:18 AM (aQQbl)

57 This sounds like a plea for Change.

A realization that the Status Quo is dragging our country down and that only substantial, immediate Change will right society again.

I, for one, will join in this Quest of Change.

Posted by: jwest at May 04, 2016 11:19 AM (Zs4uk)

58 40 So...the protesters at UMass screamed at the speakers that they were all white, which meant they had no legitimacy with any non-whites in the audience.

Now a black speaker is disinvited from VA Tech because he is black, but does not hold the appropriately "black" views.

We're officially through the looking glass.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2016 11:16 AM (NOIQH)

It is now self-evident that skin pigmentation has little to do with actual race. It's political ideology. And the little it has to do is in the pecking order of grievance within the movement.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2016 11:19 AM (p4UlV)

59 I never thought of this school as--crazy liberal.
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (mcm0N)

Most universities are being led by fragile, left leaning, tenured professors who live in a bubble. They read the NYT and Daily Kos and are terrified of any confrontation.

This is disappointing , but not surprising.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 04, 2016 11:19 AM (391wI)

60 19
There's no "paper trail" showing the invitation. It seems to have been a phone conversation.

Posted by: iforgot at May 04, 2016 11:13 AM (pC96u)

Which source says that? I don't see it in any of the links or links from the links. The amount of material claimed to have been conveyed sort of implies (to me) paper or email communication.

Posted by: redsweater at May 04, 2016 11:19 AM (IMo04)

61 Perhaps the sidebar needs a #SafeSpace kitteh.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:19 AM (FsuaD)

62 51 Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 04, 2016 11:18 AM (LgrFs)

Government by Tinkerbell....so long as a single person doesn't clap you can't hold the left accountable.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:19 AM (g8Hfr)

63 You gotta like the movement that gave us Trigglypuff. Even if it is a BM.

Posted by: Roy at May 04, 2016 11:19 AM (VndSC)

64 Mr. Riley, who is black, has attracted some negative attention since
his publication in 2014 of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It
Harder for Blacks to Succeed," wrote National Association of Scholars
President Peter Wood in the pages of National Review, which broke the
story.

That is controversial??? Only because idiots listen to racist SJWs who disrupt campuses instead of expelling them.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 04, 2016 11:19 AM (vvmPQ)

65 >>He worried the campus was still recovering from the last BB and T
Distinguished Lecture, which was delivered by Charles Murray on March
25.

Why was Charles Murray's visit so traumatizing?

They can't really still be hating him for that IQ book he wrote decades ago.
Oh, probably do - once an unperson, always an unperson, I guess.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (NOIQH)

66 Yeah, when you send someone oh and here's the list of local hotels, that's an invitation.

Behold the power of this fully activated heckler's veto!

As BC and I discuss during our newest podcast (link in nic go listen!), I'm concerned that I'm putting myself in an intellectual bubble at the moment. Why? Because so many people have gone so mouth frothy about current events, I've cut my sources of info way down in an attempt to keep from having blood come out of my eyes. On the one hand, that's very not good. On the other hand, I'm not daytime heroin eye shooting.

But. But the thing is that I know that only obtaining information that agrees with my viewpoint is a problem and a huge one at that. Intellectuals These Days (or more appropriately "intellectuals") appear to believe exactly the opposite. I don't know what that is but it's not scholarship.

Oh. Right. Human nature. That's what that is.

Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (mf5HN)

67 If you're in the position to hire new people, I encourage you to actively select people who skipped college.

Posted by: lauren at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (Covpc)

68 50 The horror of being challenged by positions different from my own makes me feel like I need another ice-cream cone.

*holds out waffle-cone*

Chocolate, Please!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:18 AM (OQ9R7)

Mint chocolate chip for me, thanks.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (0mRoj)

69 anyway i'm semi-rested. still could not get more than 6 hours of sleep though.
Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:15 AM (dciA+)

**********

If I had a blog--a political blog--during these interesting times--I would be losing sleep.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (mcm0N)

70
Most universities are being led by fragile, left leaning, tenured professors who live in a bubble. They read the NYT and Daily Kos and are terrified of any confrontation.

Hillsdale College receives annual donations from this household. The two universities that I attended do not and for good reason.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (BK3ZS)

71 "We're officially through the looking glass."
Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2016 11:16 AM (NOIQH)

Through the Looking Glass, Down the Rabbit Hole, around the bend and packing basements full of supplies.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (OQ9R7)

72 As I read it he was not disinvited because he was conservative but because the Left would have gone nutso.

Huh.

So going nutso to advance your cause actually works.

Posted by: blaster at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (2Ocf1)

73 And I don't think this is a statement about the supposedly radical business faculty, but how risk-averse they are. That has been my experience in dealing with most administrators. They are afraid to take risks or do controversial things because they are perpetually worried about problems that might arise. Now humanities faculty, on the other hand...

Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (dpnZC)

74 Can the governor of Virginia really give convicted felons the vote? Doesn't the law have to be changed, first?

Posted by: ALH at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (uLuPn)

75 Slightly off topic...

Phillip Klein of the Washington Examiner can go fuck himself.

That is all.

Posted by: jwest at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (Zs4uk)

76 anyway i'm semi-rested. still could not get more than 6 hours of sleep though.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:15 AM (dciA+)

I get 6 hours of sleep on a good night.

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (e8ge6)

77 I don't think they ever did. They only believe in power. Everything that gives them more power.
So while they were in the minority, they yelled "free speech!!!!" So they could infect the young with their commie memes.
Now they're in power, it's all "ban h8 speech!!!"'where h8 is any form of dissent.

Hillary when GWB was president, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism". Now?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (cWLG9)

78 46 Godwin's Law is bullshit. It just another version of --censorship.
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:17 AM (mcm0N)

Good point. At last the Stormtroppers had the good sense to be open and honest about what they did and why.

It's the sanctimonious preening and strutting as morally superior beings and freedom fighters that gets me nuts.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (p4UlV)

79
67 If you're in the position to hire new people, I encourage you to actively select people who skipped college.

Posted by: lauren at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (Covpc)

^^ This ^^

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (BK3ZS)

80 69 Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (mcm0N)

In 2012 I was getting ~ 16 hours of sleep a week...

I sleep 6 hours a night now, and it won't be changing.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (g8Hfr)

81 78 at LEAST, not last.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (p4UlV)

82 "Mint chocolate chip for me, thanks."
-Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (0mRoj)

*Scoops 110 rds of .22 ammo*

G'wan, kid. Get outta' here!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:22 AM (OQ9R7)

83 Our universities are now the most hostile place in the country to actual thought.

What can't go on, will not.

I say again, cut off ALL public funding including federal grants and student loans.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 04, 2016 11:22 AM (vvmPQ)

84 24 I never thought of this school as--crazy liberal.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (mcm0N)

Me neither. Large agriculture and engineering departments. Sure, as a state school, lots of business and liberal arts, but by and large, UVA is the real liberal state school. VT is the "useful skills" school.

Posted by: redsweater at May 04, 2016 11:23 AM (IMo04)

85 72 Posted by: blaster at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (2Ocf1)

Quite.....second look at Diogenes Lamp?

Too many on the right think they are going to be rewarded for their sober restraint on politics by an America that went Bronko Bama twice....

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:23 AM (g8Hfr)

86 My husband makes it a point to hire vets as his IT guys. Best bunch of employees ever.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:23 AM (FsuaD)

87 Mango Ice Cream. Not the more commonly found mango sherbet, but mango ice cream.

You can generally find it in Indian (dot, not woo-woo) food stores.

Posted by: Weasel at May 04, 2016 11:23 AM (6xtq3)

88 >>>I get 6 hours of sleep on a good night.

yeah i know, i'm relatively lucky, but... i need close to eight. if i get less than 6 I have big problems.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:23 AM (dciA+)

89 >>>67 If you're in the position to hire new people, I encourage you to actively select people who skipped college.
Posted by: lauren at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (Covpc)

A praise worthy idea.

College is just finishing school of sociopaths now.

Posted by: LOL Kabong at May 04, 2016 11:23 AM (datdl)

90 Because so many people have gone so mouth frothy about current events, I've cut my sources of info way down in an attempt to keep from having blood come out of my eyes.

AtC is a Horny Toad?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2016 11:23 AM (cWLG9)

91 It's pronounced poo-sees

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 04, 2016 11:23 AM (m3iiU)

92 Reminiscent of the million little cuts sidebar post. We are a nation of cowards.

On the bright side, maybe they can replace him with Trigglypuff, you know, for a pure lecture.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 04, 2016 11:24 AM (Nwg0u)

93 And this is VA Tech, which I always thought of as fairly conservative compared to a moonbat haven like Oberlin or even UVA.

And Riley is this soft spoken, polite dude, not a verbal "bomb-thrower" at all.

Which is why I'm starting to think the Riley and Christina Hoff-Sommers reasonably approach won't work with these aholes - you need Crowder and Milo going off on them.

Crowder said in a podcast made after the UMass-Trigglypuff event that even many liberals came up to him afterward and said "These SJWs are disgusting even us."

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 04, 2016 11:24 AM (u0lmX)

94 A lot of government jobs expect you to have a degree.

Posted by: ALH at May 04, 2016 11:24 AM (uLuPn)

95 Good for him, Jane!

Posted by: lauren at May 04, 2016 11:24 AM (Covpc)

96 America's left, this current version of it, never believed in free speech.

They have their intellectual roots in the same cesspool that gave us Stalin's version of democracy, Arafat's version of liberation, and the current muzzie radical version of religious freedom.

It's an ugly mix that can't quite be explained by communism, and it's not exactly fascism either.

But it was never liberal, and certainly has never valued free speech. This was always something they understood as problematic, because they were/are trying to overtake a nation that does, indeed, have a history of valuing free speech.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2016 11:24 AM (TOk1P)

97 88 Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:23 AM (dciA+)

Ace try taking a brisk walk 90 minutes before your sleep window.

You are trying to reestablish equilibrium, strive for seven minimum.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (g8Hfr)

98 >>>
You do realize that the light from LCD screens, especially in the evening hours before bed time, is a big factor in insomnia?

Occupational hazard.

yeah i know, i'm not a n00b about this issue.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (dciA+)

99 Hey Slap, if you're going for ice cream, I'll take some vanilla

Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (dpnZC)

100 MinRec Riley unperson.

Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (Bdeb0)

101 Mango ice cream is the bomb. I've had it in Indian restaurants.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (u0lmX)

102 How is Trigglypuff going bonkers any different than one of the hominids at the start of 2001 hooting? Or from when lesser tribes of primates scream at each other?

Way to go....

I'm reminded of Heston's last line from The Planet of the Apes as he rounds that cliff to find the remains of the Statue of Liberty standing before him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (hWrM7)

103 >>>Ace try taking a brisk walk 90 minutes before your sleep window.

i heard you weren't supposed to do any exercise hours before sleep.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (dciA+)

104 101 Mango ice cream is the bomb. I've had it in Indian restaurants.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (u0lmX)

Wouldn't buffalo ice cream be more authentic?

Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2016 11:26 AM (0mRoj)

105 We're not censoring, we're protecting the children

Posted by: University at May 04, 2016 11:26 AM (PNcou)

106 103 or ever, really.

Posted by: Weasel at May 04, 2016 11:26 AM (6xtq3)

107 Way back in '73, I was a freshman at VPI. (I transferred after that). Anyway, my introduction to controversial speakers was a lecture given by William Shockley. He was part way through when a coterie of AA students began shouting "down with Shockley, down with genocide". They kept it up for a few minutes, but after it became apparent they weren't getting any traction, they stood up and left, to the delight of the rest of the audience.

The notion that the university admin would give in to the heckler's veto and cancel a lecture never even occurred to me. Things have certainly changed, not for the better.

Posted by: pep at May 04, 2016 11:26 AM (3e8zv)

108 ***"If it ever hits an ag department, you know it's truly over."***

I take it you haven't been to many ag departments lately. That shit is eaten up with AGW/CC nonsense. Even in the South.

Even if these weren't closet SJWs doing the disinviting, they're scared of the SJWs and for good reason. The SJWs and their familiars are only just now flexing their muscles.

I thought the tranny issues would take another 10 years to hit the mainstream. Look how fast things moved after Kennedy discovered a "Right" to get married.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 04, 2016 11:26 AM (Wckf4)

109
I say again, cut off ALL public funding including federal grants and student loans.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 04, 2016 11:22 AM (vvmPQ)
Sounds like you'd fit right in with the Libertarians.

Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:26 AM (dpnZC)

110 >>> Perhaps the sidebar needs a #SafeSpace kitteh.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:19 AM (FsuaD)

hm, good idea. i'm running out of ambiguous gender cat jokes. they're now just gay jokes.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:26 AM (dciA+)

111 Let this sh*t keep happening.

Hell, let's encourage them in this, even.

The sooner this whole thing is brought to a crisis and resolution, the better.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 04, 2016 11:26 AM (lutOX)

112 Good point. At last the Stormtroppers had the good sense to be open and honest about what they did and why.

It's the sanctimonious preening and strutting as morally superior beings and freedom fighters that gets me nuts.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (p4UlV)

*******

Who knew- that this time -they would have parades with paper mâché monsters and rainbows.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:26 AM (mcm0N)

113 #RecoveryPlayDoh?

Is that a thing or an ace-ism?

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2016 11:27 AM (DL2i+)

114
78 46 Godwin's Law is bullshit. It just another version of --censorship.
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:17 AM (mcm0N)

It doesn't make any sense to scream Godwin's Law when people really are behaving like Nazis.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 04, 2016 11:27 AM (u0lmX)

115 "Mint chocolate chip for me, thanks."

I'll have sweet potato. Hold the sprinkles.

Posted by: Arthur Brown at May 04, 2016 11:27 AM (KvWlw)

116 Weasel I've been on a mango/avacado smoothie kick. 2 parts mango, 1 part avacado, 2 parts milk. Blend.

Best drunk with a spatula handy, but worth the work.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 04, 2016 11:27 AM (xuouz)

117 What the National Association of Scholars is not - a national association of scholars.

-
National Socialist Association of Scholars.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 04, 2016 11:27 AM (Nwg0u)

118 101 You would do well to follow the Teachings of Weasel.

Posted by: Weasel at May 04, 2016 11:27 AM (6xtq3)

119 How is the ostracized conservative, black or white, any different than what started with the "Jude" yellow Star of David signs and emblems forced upon the Jewish people?

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at May 04, 2016 11:27 AM (+FSld)

120 >>>I take it you haven't been to many ag departments lately. That shit is eaten up with AGW/CC nonsense. Even in the South.

FARM TO TABLE! FARM TO TABLE!

LOCOSUSTAINABLE!!!!

Posted by: Guy Who Yells "Farm to Table" and "Locosustainable" at May 04, 2016 11:27 AM (dciA+)

121 *shoves a few lemon bars through the Internets for AlextheChick*

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2016 11:27 AM (hWrM7)

122 VT Admin 1: We need some more people to fill out the speaking schedule. How about this due, he's black.

VT Admin 2: Perfect. Just the kind of people we want... Oh wait. Oh oh. Looks like he's conservative.

VT Admin 1: What? That's not possible. Everyone knows they're with us! Also, I already sent out the invite.

VT Admin 2: Well uninvite him! We'll pretend it wasn't a real "Official" invitation.

VT Admin 1: Brilliant. We're so smart.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 04, 2016 11:27 AM (KUaJL)

123 Anyone want some cream cheese pound cake to go with the ice cream?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:28 AM (FsuaD)

124 Someone alluded to Milton Fiedman's thoughts on electing the wrong people in the morning dump. Here's the whole thing:

"I do not believe that the solution to our problem is
simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to
establish a political climate of opinion which will make it
politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right
thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people
to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right
thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of
office."

So, while I am still very disappointed this morning, I am resigned that Trump will be the nominee.

What can we do to make sure he keeps his promises to conservative actions and not immediately revert to his liberal leanings as soon as he hits the White House?

I would vote for a toad over Hillary Clinton.. so I probably will vote for Trump, even though in a blue state it won't much matter.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 04, 2016 11:28 AM (so+oy)

125 103 >>>Ace try taking a brisk walk 90 minutes before your sleep window.

Are you getting laid regularly? It's awfully hard to get a good schedule going without the critical elements.

Posted by: jwest at May 04, 2016 11:28 AM (Zs4uk)

126 i heard you weren't supposed to do any exercise hours before sleep.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (dciA+)

*****

You're girlfriend sounds like one smart cookie.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:28 AM (mcm0N)

127 103 Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (dciA+)

The Army said different. The brisk walk followed by a hot bath or shower and reading actual paper worked wonders for me. The advice was similar when I was infantry, and when I finally broke down and went to the ACH as a spouse.

Not too vigorous, but enough to feel mild fatigue.

You also should try to center yourself in borderline meditation.

I know you know how brain addled I got in 2012, I set out in late 2013 to get to the bottom of restful sleep.

It took ~ 1/2 year to get 4 solid....last year I started up in six.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:28 AM (g8Hfr)

128 You can generally find it in Indian (dot, not woo-woo) food stores.

Posted by: Weasel at May 04, 2016 11:23 AM (6xtq3)

Whaddya mean, "woo-woo"? What's a "woo-woo" food store?

H8r.

Trigglypuff would be very offended by this.

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 04, 2016 11:28 AM (e8ge6)

129 123 Anyone want some cream cheese pound cake to go with the ice cream?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:28 AM (FsuaD)

Sounds marvelous. Thank you.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2016 11:29 AM (0mRoj)

130 >>.#RecoveryPlayDoh?

Is that a thing or an ace-ism?

...

it's a real thing. they have playdoh in safe spaces and Recovery Rooms because adult babies feel comfort when they play with playdoh.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:29 AM (dciA+)

131 109 Sounds like you'd fit right in with the Libertarians.

Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:26 AM (dpnZC)

Not the current libertarians. I just don't believe in financing our country's enemies though my taxes.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 04, 2016 11:29 AM (vvmPQ)

132 "You do realize that the light from LCD screens, especially in the evening hours before bed time, is a big factor in insomnia?"

I found that shifting in the middle evening hours from the use of digital gizmos with their own bluish light sources, to reading print books under yellowish incandescent light, was a big help in keeping to a sleep schedule.

I made this discovery just in time for the federal government to declare incandescent light bulbs to be doubleplusungreen, and ban them.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 04, 2016 11:29 AM (noWW6)

133 2016 Problem: Jason Riley is invited to speak.
2024 Problem: Jason Riley is.

The badthinking herd will be culled.

Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2016 11:29 AM (Bdeb0)

134 Occupational hazard.
yeah i know, i'm not a n00b about this issue.
Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (dciA+)

Ace check Twilight app or similar screen dimmers. Anything to take out the blue light.

Not a silver bullet, but it does help with the glare.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 04, 2016 11:29 AM (xuouz)

135 Can the governor of Virginia really give convicted felons the vote? Doesn't the law have to be changed, first?

Posted by: ALH at May 04, 2016 11:21 AM (uLuPn)

Rule of law is so quaint!

Dems do not do it. Governor McAuliffe extended the vote to felons, thus he can.

But the VA GOP (who has the narrowest of margins of control in the VA legislature) is on it. They are already moving in the courts to block this. If the courts decide that the governor can't violate the law, then he can't.

The McAuliffe admin already tried to end run the law over CCW reciprocity by "interpretation," and the legislature faced them, forcing not only a reversal but reclaimed some ground that had been lost prior.

This is what an opposition party looks like.

Posted by: blaster at May 04, 2016 11:29 AM (2Ocf1)

136 Hillsdale College receives annual donations from this household. The two universities that I attended do not and for good reason.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2016

My alma mater(Ohio State) and Hillsdale receives our donation dollars also. I've been to Hillsdale, it is truly a beacon of liberty.

For those unfamiliar, they do not accept ANY federal or state funding. ZERO. They do that so that they can stay out of the grip of federal regulations, etc. demanding they groups students by race, etc.

About Hillsdale.
https://www.hillsdale.edu/about/history/

Posted by: Jen the original at May 04, 2016 11:29 AM (391wI)

137 *shoves cream cheese pound cake thru USB port*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (FsuaD)

138 125 Posted by: jwest at May 04, 2016 11:28 AM (Zs4uk)

I've been married for 22 years.

I get action when she is inspired and/or I "need" it...

at some point the desperation depot aspect of "must have it now!" wore off....

man when we were kids though.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (g8Hfr)

139 You do realize that the light from LCD screens, especially in the evening hours before bed time, is a big factor in insomnia?

f.lux
available for WinX, Android,?

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (DL2i+)

140 128 mission accomplished!

Posted by: Weasel at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (6xtq3)

141 i heard you weren't supposed to do any exercise hours before sleep.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:25 AM (dciA+)

It's like the old joke:

Business man to doctor because of stress related illness.
Doctor: I recommend you start playing golf as a hobby.
Patient: I hit the links at least once a week!
Doctor: In that case, I recommend that you stop.

Posted by: @votermom ignorant populist at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (nbrY/)

142 If no exercise, how come people routinely fall asleep after sex?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (iQIUe)

143 This makes Va. Tech look bad.

Posted by: Michael Vick at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (o9vm9)

144 130 - wow. I have no words. Do they give them colouring books too?

Posted by: Sassy at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (q7eWh)

145 24---I never thought of this school as--crazy liberal.
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (mcm0N)
------------------------
Outside of a few departments in the humanities --- most notably the English dept.--- it is not.

Okay. I am going to say something triggering.
Professor Vijay Singal.
This is a person who is unlikely to have been raised with an understanding of the American tradition and the Bill of Rights. Such "civics" training as he has had will be of the post Bill Ayers kind.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (T/5A0)

146 >>>You also should try to center yourself in borderline meditation.

how do I do that?

Re: reading, I try to read on kindle most nights before bed. same as paper as far as not causing eye strain or pumping the brain full of LED light.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (dciA+)

147

They are afraid of BLM

Posted by: ThunderB at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (zOTsN)

148 Im letting my 3 year old watch a playdoh video on YouTube because I don't want actual playdoh in my house. I'm deeply ashamed of this.

Posted by: lauren at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (Covpc)

149 though now that i think of it, the kindle is led-lit.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:31 AM (dciA+)

150 If no exercise before bed is recommended to insomniacs...

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 04, 2016 11:31 AM (iQIUe)

151 Was behind a Kia Soul yesterday and it had a Coexist sticker, and a football shaped ornament stuck to the back that said "Veg", which I took to mean vegan or vegetarian.
Love the preening and virtue signaling. May come in handy during the burning times.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 04, 2016 11:31 AM (+aCe4)

152 >>>Ace check Twilight app or similar screen dimmers. Anything to take out the blue light.

yah i got that.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:31 AM (dciA+)

153 *scoops ice-cream from newly-bought Party-Truck*

First scoop is free.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:31 AM (OQ9R7)

154 I've been married for 22 years.

I get action when she is inspired and/or I "need" it...

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (g8Hfr)

I could have structured that comment better...

I was asking Ace.

Posted by: jwest at May 04, 2016 11:32 AM (Zs4uk)

155 137 *shoves cream cheese pound cake thru USB port*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (FsuaD)

*nom nom nom*

Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2016 11:32 AM (0mRoj)

156 Insomnia?

1. A melatonin an hour before.
2. www.sleepwithmepodcast, low volume.

Eureka!

Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2016 11:32 AM (Bdeb0)

157 My advice:

A dog. Will keep your schedule regular and will force you to walk 2x a day.

A gf. Will eff your brains out and you can fall asleep afterwards.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 04, 2016 11:32 AM (iQIUe)

158 f.lux
available for WinX, Android,?
Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (DL2i+)

I had a bad experience with flux messing with my graphics card. That was on an old work computer though.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 04, 2016 11:32 AM (xuouz)

159 Jezzuz. *your* girlfriend sounds like one smart cookie.

Oy that's what I get for being snarky and commenting before coffee.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:33 AM (mcm0N)

160 ***"Too many on the right think they are going to be rewarded for their sober restraint on politics by an America that went Bronko Bama twice...."***

Until the right realizes the value of activism and discovers the same sort of motivation as the Left, the Left will continue to win.

The problem is that the right is more or less fighting to hold a position and the Left is operating freely behind our lines. And people on the right are usually more concerned with going to work and providing and lack the time to mount an offensive.

[Tired combat metaphors=off]

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 04, 2016 11:33 AM (Wckf4)

161 151
Was behind a Kia Soul yesterday and it had a Coexist sticker, and a
football shaped ornament stuck to the back that said "Veg", which I took
to mean vegan or vegetarian.

Love the preening and virtue signaling. May come in handy during the burning times.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 04, 2016 11:31 AM (+aCe4)

I see that crap here all the time. The vegan/veg crowd are totally in your face.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:33 AM (FsuaD)

162 Think President Clinton and her soon-to-be Democrat congress will attempt to repeal the first amendment? Succeed where Harry Reid failed.

Posted by: Pyrocles at May 04, 2016 11:33 AM (fVOPU)

163 My grandmother used to drink warm milk to help her go to sleep.

Posted by: ALH at May 04, 2016 11:33 AM (uLuPn)

164 So NYC and a trans person films being abused on the subway...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trans-woman-attacked-nyc-train-120300628.html

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2016 11:33 AM (hWrM7)

165 yah i got that.
Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:31 AM (dciA+)

Also, try laying down it helps me a lot with falling asleep.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 04, 2016 11:34 AM (xuouz)

166 >>>144 130 - wow. I have no words. Do they give them colouring books too?

actually i'm 99% sure they do.

you guys didn't know this? They had Recovery Rooms at some college when they screened "American Sniper" at the rec a year or two back.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:34 AM (dciA+)

167 Nobody bitches or obsesses about racism more than liberals and no one practices racism more than liberals.

Posted by: CrustyB at May 04, 2016 11:34 AM (GvSpB)

168 Through the Looking Glass, Down the Rabbit Hole, around the bend and packing basements full of supplies.

-
Up Shit Creek without a paddle heading for the waterfall.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 04, 2016 11:35 AM (Nwg0u)

169 "Safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" are euphemisms for tyranny and oppression.

I'm a little confused how we've been told for years that inviting people to campuses who are clearly radical or well out of mainstream thinking is int hte interest of "pursuing diversity of thought", while conversely inviting people who don't agree with the campus lords proclivities are curiously "hurtful", "discriminatory" or "racists".

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2016 11:35 AM (O0lVq)

170 Thank you, AP.

*noms*

I will have some blue moon ice cream, please.

Re: reading, I try to read on kindle most nights before bed. same as paper as far as not causing eye strain or pumping the brain full of LED light.
Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (dciA+)

I was going to suggest cutting back on LED light. There's also drink some nice peppermint tea an hourish before bed.

I've been trying to do lie there and start listing off good things and I'm talking starting with thank you that I have a warm (or cold) place to sleep with a ceiling and walls and a bed. Focusing on positive stuff will calm your mind and zzzzzzzz.

Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 04, 2016 11:35 AM (mf5HN)

171 Coloring books?

Isn't that a new trend, adult coloring books?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2016 11:35 AM (hWrM7)

172 "They are having wild, passionate sex with censorship."

Is THAT what Trigglypuff was doing? Shudder...

Posted by: Grimaldi at May 04, 2016 11:35 AM (aAfVc)

173
you guys didn't know this? They had Recovery
Rooms at some college when they screened "American Sniper" at the rec a
year or two back.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:34 AM (dciA+)

Yeesh. I remember that. They had lots of stuffed animals, too, didn't they?

Those idiots will be on our death panels.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:35 AM (FsuaD)

174 it's a real thing. they have playdoh in safe spaces and Recovery Rooms
because adult babies feel comfort when they play with playdoh.

So the folly of not just sending the kids out to play in the mud has come full circle.

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2016 11:35 AM (DL2i+)

175 > going to have a naked wedding with no food

Aw, c'mon. I think you should have lutefisk souffle, at the very least.

Posted by: just wait, you won't believe what happens next at May 04, 2016 11:36 AM (25+/B)

176 It's sad when you live long enough to realize that almost every fucking generation repeats the same fucking mistakes the previous one did.

And has to re-learn the same fucking lessons that last one did.

It's a wonder we are able to advance as a species.

Posted by: Dogstar at May 04, 2016 11:36 AM (JpJvz)

177
Gotta get crackin, otherwise I'm going to have a naked wedding with no food.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2016 11:08 AM (dFi94)

Old and busted: Grammie is an old fuddy-duddy.
Hot new meme: Grammie is going to have a nood wedding.
Posted by: OregonMuse at May 04, 2016 11:14 AM (e8ge6)

Grammie, the Horde will bring pudding, if you lose all mental faculty and invite us.

Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 04, 2016 11:36 AM (1D4Ef)

178 it's a real thing. they have playdoh in safe spaces and Recovery Rooms because adult babies feel comfort when they play with playdoh.-------ace

No wonder SMOD skipped destroying us. It's already happened.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 04, 2016 11:36 AM (0x/TW)

179 "I take it you haven't been to many ag departments lately. That shit is eaten up with AGW/CC nonsense. Even in the South."

"Climate change" very rapidly spread to and infected nearly every department in the universities once the federal academic research grant award mechanism began to prioritize funding applicants who focused on it, or at least referenced it.

So if you are filing a grant application for a study upon "Mating Habits Of The Lesser Spotted Mountain Gruntflop", you're shit out of luck, but if you are adroit enough to rework your application as "The Effect Of Anthropogenic Climate Change On The Mating Habits Of The Lesser Spotted Mountain Gruntflop", the federal coffers will open up and generously disburse the money you've asked for.

It's almost as though people respond to incentives or something.

Eisenhower had a few things to say about this in his farewell address. Right after the part about the "military-industrial complex". The left love to quote that part. They don't so much like quoting the rest of Ike's speech.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 04, 2016 11:36 AM (noWW6)

180 146 Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (dciA+)

"What works for you will work for you."

//Wise-ass 30 something doc to my 40ish ass

I tend to reflect on whatever whim enters my mind in the early afternoon, when raising Lad10077 or dreading his inability to overcome distraction doesn't dominate my mind.

You seem to enjoy the DC TV Verse a lot, but understand it is jumping the shark.

Reflect or ponder what you'd do differently.

I use android/nook so for the most part electronic reading is pretty stark on my eyes and brain. Kindle's "go fuzzy red" font and backlight does seem to be softer.

Of late I have been speaking with wife on our retirement plans and planning my hydroponic grow house I will build when we go home to Ohio....

I miss home, of course home was 25 years ago as much as a place.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:36 AM (g8Hfr)

181 Why is Virginia Tech lying about him not being technically "invited"?

They fear being Missou'd.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at May 04, 2016 11:36 AM (evdj2)

182 7 This is just more evidence of how complete the Left's long march has been. This was the business school, presumably a hotbed of far rightwing capitalists learning their craft on how to destroy mankind with money,
Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 04, 2016 11:08 AM (Wckf4)

It's not surprising that so many corporate and banking types are just hunky-dory with socialism/fascism/corporatism.

Posted by: rickl at May 04, 2016 11:37 AM (zoehZ)

183 I've seen Jason Riley on Fox News - he's a regular on their Wall Street Journal show where WSJ writers discuss the week's issues. He's a smart guy.

But that means *two* strikes against him, as an author of that book + Fox News regular.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2016 11:37 AM (NOIQH)

184 their own bluish light sources, to reading print books under yellowish incandescent

f.lux does this for your displays palette
https://justgetflux.com/

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2016 11:37 AM (DL2i+)

185 I've come to a definitive conclusion about one thing: No way we're leaving in a simulation. No simulation would be this stupid.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 04, 2016 11:37 AM (659DL)

186
Rapes are routine in the #safespaces but the universities are covering it up. Pass it on....

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 04, 2016 11:37 AM (iQIUe)

187 *Applies for my Local Death Panel*

I hope I am approved!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:37 AM (OQ9R7)

188 fucking madness

Posted by: oddnot says ~sigh~ at May 04, 2016 11:37 AM (g1MTt)

189 In a few years these people will all be eating crayons and licking windows.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2016 11:37 AM (O0lVq)

190 Nood Wedding. In WI. There will be shrinkage

Posted by: ThunderB at May 04, 2016 11:37 AM (zOTsN)

191 And has to re-learn the same fucking lessons that last one did.
It's a wonder we are able to advance as a species.
Posted by: Dogstar at May 04, 2016 11:36 AM (JpJvz)

This is why education and reading were so highly prized by our societal forebears.

Shit's fucking lame and all about dead white men, though, so it's got to go. Obama said so on twitter! LMAO

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 04, 2016 11:37 AM (xuouz)

192 I had a bad experience with flux messing with my graphics card. That was on an old work computer though.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 04, 2016 11:32 AM (xuouz)

Get one of those flux capacitors from Doc Brown. They work great.

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 04, 2016 11:37 AM (e8ge6)

193 Why is Virginia Tech lying about him not being technically "invited"?

SJW's always lie.

Expect doubling down soon.

Posted by: blaster at May 04, 2016 11:38 AM (2Ocf1)

194 173 - sadly, yes, it is a "trend." I was gifted with one from my aunt recently. I had to sit there, smile and say "thank you" and then think to myself: WTF??

I gave it to my 11-year-old who was more than happy to colour in it.

Posted by: Sassy at May 04, 2016 11:38 AM (q7eWh)

195 He is not black !!! He is a person of color !!!!

Posted by: Mary Cloginstien from Brattleboro, VT at May 04, 2016 11:39 AM (juAe6)

196 chemjeff, 109:

"Sounds like you'd fit right in with the Libertarians."

This mystifies me this morning. I'm listening to CNN (not my idea) and they're asking about whether the NeverTrumpers will come around to him, they're about to interview one who says he'll vote for Hillary!.

If you're on the right and won't vote Trump, I think Libertarian is an obvious choice.

(And yes, Trump supporters, I agree that makes Hillary! possible if enough people do it. We just disagree on who's to blame: Me for finding Trump unacceptable, or you for foisting him on me.)

Posted by: JPS at May 04, 2016 11:39 AM (i5+fi)

197 I killed most of the Gruntflops around here, but I ate them, as well.

I Like Ike!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:39 AM (OQ9R7)

198 This will not cure insomnia.

http://tinyurl.com/h34cb77

Posted by: pep at May 04, 2016 11:39 AM (3e8zv)

199 Okay. I am going to say something triggering.
Professor Vijay Singal.

This is a person who is unlikely to have been raised with an understanding of the American tradition and the Bill of Rights. Such "civics" training as he has had will be of the post Bill Ayers kind.

Yes, I feel rather unclean for having that as my first reaction, but my first reaction was "Professor Vijay, seriously, wading into American race relations without an invite?"

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 04, 2016 11:39 AM (1xUj/)

200 I found that shifting in the middle evening hours from the use of digital gizmos with their own bluish light sources, to reading print books under yellowish incandescent light, was a big help in keeping to a sleep schedule.

I made this discovery just in time for the federal government to declare incandescent light bulbs to be doubleplusungreen, and ban them.
Posted by: torquewrench at May 04, 2016 11:29 AM (noWW6)

Interesting Kindle Fire feature is night reading mode. Turns down the blue color so that everything looks orange/yellow.

Much easier on the eyes if you're reading it in the dark.

Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 04, 2016 11:39 AM (1D4Ef)

201 I am disappointed.

There was a real expectation of a thread devoted to the Zapata Hoverboard with an imbedded video.

But... nothing.

Posted by: jwest at May 04, 2016 11:39 AM (Zs4uk)

202 you guys didn't know this? They had Recovery Rooms at some college

Whatever happened to just passing out on Vic's lawn.

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2016 11:39 AM (DL2i+)

203 ***"I've come to a definitive conclusion about one thing: No way we're leaving in a simulation. No simulation would be this stupid."***

Soooo stealing this. Much better than the awesome "what a stupid time to be alive" line I've been using.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 04, 2016 11:40 AM (Wckf4)

204 70
Hillsdale College receives annual donations from this household. The two universities that I attended do not and for good reason.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2016 11:20 AM (BK3ZS)
-------------------
Likewise. As it happens, one of my kids went to Hillsdale, but we were contributing to them before that.

Another school that takes no federal money, directly or indirectly, is Grove City College. We cut them an annual check too.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 04, 2016 11:40 AM (T/5A0)

205 Does anyone have a link to graph showing Federal funding of colleges over the years? As in when did it really go gangbusters in subsidizing all the craziness.

Have this sinking suspicion that what started as a good idea has of course been perverted.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2016 11:41 AM (hWrM7)

206 So if you are filing a grant application for a study upon "Mating Habits Of The Lesser Spotted Mountain Gruntflop", you're shit out of luck, but if you are adroit enough to rework your application as "The Effect Of Anthropogenic Climate Change On The Mating Habits Of The Lesser Spotted Mountain Gruntflop", the federal coffers will open up and generously disburse the money you've asked for.

If we ever target these funding shenanigans for elimination ...

"Why you hate science, haters!"

Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 04, 2016 11:41 AM (1D4Ef)

207 ThunderB!

No calling "nood" without noodness!

I'll have you know I clicked several buttons chasing that "wedding in WI" red herring you bandied about up there.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 04, 2016 11:41 AM (xuouz)

208 Hey Ace - Have you tried taking Melatonin? It's a cheap, safe naturally occurring hormone from your pineal gland.

If you have bright lights on when it is getting dark outside, you may not be producing it..

Lot of folks swear by it as a supplement.

http://tinyurl.com/hsu8e6m

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 04, 2016 11:41 AM (so+oy)

209 For bumper sticker idiocy of the year, I nominate the car I saw parked in front of my building a few weeks ago.

Bumper sticker on one side: "Help Foster Children."

Sticker on the other side: "I Stand With Planned Parenthood."

Either the owner is A. obtuse beyond words or B. he's cleverly trolling the world.

My guess is A. because we live in the Age of Stupid.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 04, 2016 11:41 AM (u0lmX)

210 Jane that sounds terrific, can I have some too?

Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:41 AM (dpnZC)

211
I see that crap here all the time. The vegan/veg crowd are totally in your face.

Leave Whopper or Big Mac wrappers under their windshield wipers.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2016 11:41 AM (BK3ZS)

212 Those who don't use most of the Gruntflop are NOT responsible stewards of their God-Given World.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (OQ9R7)

213 Okay. I am going to say something triggering.
Professor Vijay Singal.
This is a person who is unlikely to have been raised with an understanding of the American tradition and the Bill of Rights. Such "civics" training as he has had will be of the post Bill Ayers kind.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (T/5A0)

Prof. Vijay Singal is extremely accomplished. He was raised and received his BS and MS equivalent degrees in India, then his PhD from the University of Michigan.
His curriculum vitae is here.
http://www.finance.pamplin.vt.edu/faculty/vs/index.html.

His interests are in finance. He is not a policy wonk and in reality, I am a bit puzzled as to why a business school would host a lecture by someone who is discussing identity politics.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (391wI)

214 It's like the old joke:

Business man to doctor because of stress related illness.

Doctor: I recommend you start playing golf as a hobby.

Patient: I hit the links at least once a week!

Doctor: In that case, I recommend that you stop.

Posted by: @votermom ignorant populist at May 04, 2016 11:30 AM (nbrY/)

Which of course is absolutely the right advice. Stop listening to what other people tell us to do, and start listening to our own bodies telling us what it does or doesn't want.
If vigorous exercise is good for one person before bedtime, but bad for another, then... the one person should do it, and the other shouldn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (TOk1P)

215 >>>I was going to suggest cutting back on LED light. There's also drink some nice peppermint tea an hourish before bed.

yeah i was on a big herbal tea kick a year ago, I should start doing that again. I have all my Lemon Zingers and camomilles anyway.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (dciA+)

216 Someone suggested in one of the other threads Trump should pick Terry Crews as VP -

that works, actually.

Posted by: blaster at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (2Ocf1)

217 This Just In:

Kasich dropping out.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (J4nVH)

218 >>This is a person who is unlikely to have been raised with an understanding of the American tradition and the Bill of Rights.

Yup:
-- THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR, MI Ph.D., Finance. -- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, CALCUTTA, INDIA Master of Business Administration (PGDM), Finance.
-- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KANPUR, INDIA Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineerin

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (NOIQH)

219 Jane that sounds terrific, can I have some too?

Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:41 AM (dpnZC)

No. Everyone else gets some, but you don't.

Nyah.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2016 11:43 AM (TOk1P)

220 ***"And yes, Trump supporters, I agree that makes Hillary! possible if enough people do it. We just disagree on who's to blame: Me for finding Trump unacceptable, or you for foisting him on me."***

Put me down as "Me, because I don't vote for Democrats, even if they say they're Republican."

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 04, 2016 11:43 AM (Wckf4)

221 >>>Hey Ace - Have you tried taking Melatonin?

every night.

insomnia is too big a thing to be helped by melantonin, though it's good to just generally make you sleepy when you don't have insomnia.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:43 AM (dciA+)

222 I know Jason Riley! Looks like a toad! Great mind though but not as great as mind. Too bad he works with that whore Megyn!

Posted by: Donald at May 04, 2016 11:43 AM (LYCUN)

223 "Our universities are now the most hostile place in the country to actual thought."

And you can get that hostility toward actual thought for free instead of taking out a giant life debilitating student loan, if you know where to look. Heck, a job in government will actually pay you! And when I say, "job", I don't mean, "work". *wink wink*

Posted by: Dang at May 04, 2016 11:43 AM (2oWD2)

224 He said he first received an invitation from Tech finance professor Douglas Patterson about three weeks ago. That invitation included past lecture series speakers, topics and logistical information about spending the night in Blacksburg.

Um. Hello? Please call it "African-Americansburg. H8trs.

Posted by: Citation X Driver at May 04, 2016 11:43 AM (ABJy3)

225 179 "I take it you haven't been to many ag departments lately. That shit is eaten up with AGW/CC nonsense. Even in the South."

"Climate change" very rapidly spread to and infected nearly every department in the universities once the federal academic research grant award mechanism began to prioritize funding applicants who focused on it, or at least referenced it.

So if you are filing a grant application for a study upon "Mating Habits Of The Lesser Spotted Mountain Gruntflop", you're shit out of luck, but if you are adroit enough to rework your application as "The Effect Of Anthropogenic Climate Change On The Mating Habits Of The Lesser Spotted Mountain Gruntflop", the federal coffers will open up and generously disburse the money you've asked for.

*************

That makes a lot of sense. So our hope that it wouldn't reach the AG department....gone.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:44 AM (mcm0N)

226 218 >>This is a person who is unlikely to have been raised with an understanding of the American tradition and the Bill of Rights.

He's just another liberal College Professor asshole...

Posted by: donna at May 04, 2016 11:44 AM (O2RFr)

227 217 Posted by: Azathoth at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (J4nVH)

It is not nice to troll us this hard the morning after...

*sigh* I need to call AIM Surplus and figure out which DL# they outed to the world for me.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:44 AM (g8Hfr)

228 Aw, c'mon. I think you should have lutefisk souffle, at the very least.

Posted by: just wait, you won't believe what happens next at May 04, 2016 11:36 AM (25+/B)

Bratwurst ice cream!

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 04, 2016 11:44 AM (u0lmX)

229 O/T

Fab Faux are five NYC studio musicians who do a Beatles tribute act. They'll be playing the Beacon in NYC on Sat Nov 12 with horns, strings and a choir, which should be special. Presale starts now with FABFAUX as the code. They tour, mostly on the East Coast.

If you like The Beatles even a little I highly recommend that you go. These guys are great musicians. The bass player was in the Letterman band, and one of the guitar players is in Conan's band.

You can finds clips on youtube

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2016 11:44 AM (r1fLd)

230 The Gruntflops around here have damn near been hunted to extinction.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at May 04, 2016 11:44 AM (evdj2)

231 > I'm deeply ashamed of this.

Posted by: lauren

You should be. You'll have the only kid in the country that hasn't eaten playdoh.

Posted by: just wait, you won't believe what happens next at May 04, 2016 11:44 AM (25+/B)

232 >>yeah i was on a big herbal tea kick a year ago, I
should start doing that again. I have all my Lemon Zingers and
camomilles anyway.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (dciA+)
<<

I have not beat insomnia altogether, but I've finally cut back. I think at some point you accept the fact you need less sleep then others.

But I cut out salt, caffeine and any stimulants. Believe it or not the biggest help was much more exercise very early in the morning.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2016 11:45 AM (O0lVq)

233 This Just In:

Kasich dropping out.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (J4nVH)

So that just leaves Trump and Jon Huntsman? Or is Mitch Daniels still on the ballot?

Hmmm..... what to do...

Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2016 11:45 AM (TOk1P)

234 A couple of bourbon and ginger ales in the evening always makes me sleepy.

Posted by: blaster at May 04, 2016 11:45 AM (2Ocf1)

235 Oh AlextheChick, before I forget.

May the Fourth be with you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2016 11:45 AM (hWrM7)

236 217 This Just In:

Kasich dropping out.
Posted by: Azathoth at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (J4nVH)

******

Really? But--we have beautiful buffets out here!

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:45 AM (mcm0N)

237 I see that crap here all the time. The vegan/veg crowd are totally in your face.--------Jane D'oh

I remember meeting a woman years ago who made it a point to ask every new person she met if they were a vegetarian. The smug look on her face when I said no told me exctly why she was asking.
The vegans/vegetarians really, really, love themselves and like to let others know it. I know there are exceptions, but they seem to be the minority.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 04, 2016 11:45 AM (+aCe4)

238 Gruntflops may be rare, but I still have Ice Cream!

Scooooops?!?

Scooooops?!?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:45 AM (OQ9R7)

239 This Just In:

Kasich dropping out.
Posted by: Azathoth at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (J4nVH)

First Google hit is an article that he isn't from 5 hours ago.

Kasich's Twitter Feed has ... "Only Hope" as top tweet, coupled with Star Wars #tags.

Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 04, 2016 11:45 AM (1D4Ef)

240 I take it you haven't been to many ag departments lately. That shit is eaten up with AGW/CC nonsense. Even in the South.

-
Do the transgender corn stalks get their own row?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 04, 2016 11:46 AM (Nwg0u)

241 Did Charles Murray rape the entire campus or something? Wow, the butthurt is strong with old Vijay.

Posted by: Fritz at May 04, 2016 11:46 AM (UzPAd)

242 Gruntflops may be rare, but I still have Ice Cream!

Scooooops?!?

Scooooops?!?
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:45 AM (OQ9R7)

Please sir, may I have some more?

*does best starving orphan impression*

Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 04, 2016 11:46 AM (1D4Ef)

243 I feel like I'm going into trump Cruz withdrawal. It's fabulous

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2016 11:46 AM (BuB4M)

244 every night.

insomnia is too big a thing to be helped by melantonin, though it's
good to just generally make you sleepy when you don't have insomnia.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:43 AM (dciA+)

I was gonna take melatonin, but I was afraid of getting too dark.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2016 11:46 AM (TOk1P)

245 Actually, Ace, there is an over-the-counter medicine that strangely works perfectly if you need to sleep. I have told many of my friends - female and male - about it. Premysyn PMS, believe it or not. It is miraculous. Laugh all you want, but the men and women who try it sleep like babies.

Posted by: Sassy at May 04, 2016 11:47 AM (q7eWh)

246 Many of Bernie's young supporters know they got a bad deal on their college spending. There should be an angle here.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2016 11:47 AM (r1fLd)

247 >>yeah i was on a big herbal tea kick a year ago, I
should start doing that again. I have all my Lemon Zingers and
camomilles anyway.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (dciA+)<<By the way, peppermint and citrus can be stimulants to some people. Especially peppermint.Drink plain decaf teas or water. Lot's of water.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2016 11:47 AM (O0lVq)

248 His interests are in finance. He is not a policy wonk and in reality, I am a bit puzzled as to why a business school would host a lecture by someone who is discussing identity politics.
Posted by: Jen the original

He's a Wall Street Journal Columnist and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He fits in with the roster of other Distinguished Speakers in the BB&T series.

As I read it he was not invited to speak about race relations, but about business. Then someone saw that he had *also* written about race.

And then #hideundermommysskirts

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 04, 2016 11:47 AM (1xUj/)

249 210
Jane that sounds terrific, can I have some too?

Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:41 AM (dpnZC)

Check your USB port.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:47 AM (FsuaD)

250 244 Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2016 11:46 AM (TOk1P)

//Rachel Dozealdozer

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:47 AM (g8Hfr)

251 "Please sir, may I have some more?"

*does best starving orphan impression*

-Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 04, 2016 11:46 AM (1D4Ef)

*PLOP!*

Vanilla, unless described otherwise.

--ENJOY!--

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:48 AM (OQ9R7)

252 Someone said warm milk upthread--my family swears by warm honey and milk for insomnia.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:48 AM (mcm0N)

253 Erick Erickson is tweeting Kasich is dropping out.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 04, 2016 11:48 AM (J4nVH)

254 246 Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2016 11:47 AM (r1fLd)

They are pissed off at the bill, not the bile.

Barney-bots want a get out of jail free card on their Brawndo-cation not a refund with interest b/c of the idiocy they were filled with.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:49 AM (g8Hfr)

255 The U.S. has enough problems without publicity seekers going out and openly mocking Democrats in order to provoke attacks and campus disruption. BE SMART!

Jason Riley is an obvious trouble maker and VT did the right thing.

Posted by: Donaldo Trump at May 04, 2016 11:49 AM (/m8T6)

256 Ginger tea makes you go. Like, you know. It's good for digestion

Posted by: ThunderB at May 04, 2016 11:49 AM (zOTsN)

257 Most universities in India, are heavily influenced by socialist thinking. This permeates a lot of so-called intellectual thought in India.

Which is actually pretty strange in its own way, as most of the people at universities in India are from the Brahmin class, and are used to being in charge, and usually not reluctant to tell you so, even in America.

Having dealt with both Chinese and Indians, I would much rather deal with the Chinese. Regardless of it being a "communist" country, they still respect hard work, and effort. And they really want to make money.
Most Indians of Brahmin birth are lazy and expect things to be handed to them. So rethinking, the socialist mindset does work and explain a lot.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 04, 2016 11:49 AM (RFeQD)

258 Erick Erickson is tweeting Kasich is dropping out.
Posted by: Azathoth at May 04, 2016 11:48 AM (J4nVH)

Gee, and He was so close ....

Posted by: donna at May 04, 2016 11:49 AM (O2RFr)

259 Slap, I'll take some ice cream, thanks

Would you like some steak in return?

Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:49 AM (dpnZC)

260 "You'll have the only kid in the country that hasn't eaten playdoh."

Oh they've eaten it. And ground it into the carpet. And each other's hair.

There are Reasons I've adopted this anti playdoh stance.

Posted by: lauren at May 04, 2016 11:49 AM (Covpc)

261 He's just another liberal College Professor asshole...
Posted by: donna at May 04, 2016 11:44 AM (O2RFr)

Singal worked in the private sector for ten years as a finance director for the Oil and Gas Corp and also was on the BOD for New River Funds, mutual fund group.

I point this out simply because he isn't a pointy headed plaid jacket wearing prof. This guy actually has a lot of heavy duty experience in the real world.

But as a college prof, he is afraid of protests.

Great.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 04, 2016 11:49 AM (391wI)

262 I'll believe Kasich is dropping out when I hear it from his food-filled mouth.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:50 AM (FsuaD)

263 I say again, cut off ALL public funding including federal grants and student loans.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 04, 2016 11:22 AM
****

THIS

Posted by: oddnot says ~sigh~ at May 04, 2016 11:50 AM (g1MTt)

264 >>The vegans/vegetarians really, really, love themselves and like to let
others know it. I know there are exceptions, but they seem to be the
minority.

It is a religion. Really.
See this outrage when a vegetarian restaurant owner was outed for slaughtering livestock.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/la-vegans-go-war-death-888271

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2016 11:50 AM (NOIQH)

265 Check your USB port.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:47 AM (FsuaD)
thanks

Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:50 AM (dpnZC)

266 253 Posted by: Azathoth at May 04, 2016 11:48 AM (J4nVH)

Heh....

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:50 AM (g8Hfr)

267 But as a college prof, he is afraid of protests.

Great.

He's still an asshole....

Posted by: donna at May 04, 2016 11:50 AM (O2RFr)

268 ..."Lot's of water."
-Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2016 11:47 AM (O0lVq)

No need for that apostrophe, unless you're just showing-off! In that case, I'll take three dozen.

...unless you were speaking of a Biblical possessive.

In that case, I'll only need one.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:50 AM (OQ9R7)

269 Many of Bernie's young supporters know they got a bad deal on their college spending. There should be an angle here.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2016 11:47 AM (r1fLd)

We cannot be a free country when we've created a generation of debt slaves.

Sure, "serves them right" ... but who's told them better? Their parents, their high schools, their entertainment... everything says go get a degree. And the banks and the government eagerly gave the naive young men and women a document to sign their future away.

Find a solution to ease their unjust burden, and they will follow.

Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 04, 2016 11:50 AM (1D4Ef)

270 OT

2 New books that are on my blog (not reviews)

Link in nic

Posted by: @votermom ignorant populist at May 04, 2016 11:51 AM (nbrY/)

271 Ambien
Bushmills Black Bush
Jasmine Tea

All work to varying degree for me. YMMV

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2016 11:51 AM (aQQbl)

272 Sven, about that game and pizza... can you rework so there is someone like Kasich attacking a slice of pizza with fork and knife?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2016 11:51 AM (hWrM7)

273
I remember meeting a woman years ago who made it a point to ask every new person she met if they were a vegetarian. The smug look on her face when I said no told me exctly why she was asking.

Apropos of nothing, I was working the demo booth for our lapidary society at a trade show about a month ago when a woman from the booth next to us stopped by to chat. Without my asking anything even remotely related to the topic, she informed me that she geocaches, has found over 1,000 of them and a geocaching friend of hers had created a cache named for her to honor that accomplishment.

I was thinking, "WTF? Who cares?".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2016 11:51 AM (BK3ZS)

274 If the pussies need to "recover" from a lecture by Charles Murray about "The Bell Curve," that kinda proves that "The Bell Curve" was absolutely correct.

Posted by: CrustyB at May 04, 2016 11:51 AM (GvSpB)

275 252 Someone said warm milk upthread--my family swears by warm honey and milk for insomnia.

Turkey. Tryptophan FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2016 11:51 AM (cWLG9)

276 Congress really needs to repeal Title IX, get out of the student loan business, and end all other subsidies to higher ed. There are plenty of private companies and think tanks that can do the research our national defense requires.

Posted by: Iblis at May 04, 2016 11:51 AM (9221z)

277 Gruntflops, of course, are some kind of weasel.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 04, 2016 11:51 AM (1xUj/)

278 ..."Would you like some steak in return?"
-Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:49 AM (dpnZC)

*HAH!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:52 AM (OQ9R7)

279 As I read it he was not invited to speak about race relations, but about business. Then someone saw that he had *also* written about race.

And then #hideundermommysskirts
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 04, 2016 11:47 AM (1xUj/)

Thanks Bander. I understand now.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 04, 2016 11:52 AM (391wI)

280 Some vegan idiot wrote a letter to the editor, blaming people who eat meat and dairy for contributing to global warming.

His throat needs a visit from my fist.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:52 AM (FsuaD)

281 thanks for the heads up on Katshit -- I put up a nood post about it.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:52 AM (dciA+)

282 258 Posted by: donna at May 04, 2016 11:49 AM (O2RFr)

Kasich accomplished his $oro$ bought mission....he stopped Ted Cruz....now win or lose $oro$ wins.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:52 AM (g8Hfr)

283 262 I'll believe Kasich is dropping out when I hear it from his food-filled mouth.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:50 AM (FsuaD)

Baron Harkonnen can't quit!
#thespicemustflow

Posted by: @votermom ignorant populist at May 04, 2016 11:52 AM (nbrY/)

284 >>262 I'll believe Kasich is dropping out when I hear it from his food-filled mouth.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:50 AM (FsuaD)
<<

OK. That's hilarious.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2016 11:52 AM (O0lVq)

285
yeah i was on a big herbal tea kick a year ago, I should start doing that again. I have all my Lemon Zingers and camomilles anyway.
Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (dciA+)

Sleepy Time works well too.

Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 04, 2016 11:52 AM (mf5HN)

286 272 Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2016 11:51 AM (hWrM7)

I don't allow trolls as PCs...

Posted by: sven10077 at May 04, 2016 11:52 AM (g8Hfr)

287 I remember meeting a woman years ago who made it a point to ask every new person she met if they were a vegetarian. The smug look on her face when I said no told me exctly why she was asking.

"No. I lean more to cannibalism."

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2016 11:53 AM (cWLG9)

288 I remember meeting a woman years ago who made it a point to ask every new person she met if they were a vegetarian. The smug look on her face when I said no told me exctly why she was asking.

Proper response: "Oh good lord, why would I do something like that? Depriving myself of important nutrients like that, what a foolish thing to do...what fool would want to do that...?"

Followed up by a punch in the face if they give you crap.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 04, 2016 11:53 AM (9krrF)

289 Some vegan idiot wrote a letter to the editor, blaming people who eat meat and dairy for contributing to global warming.

Pretty sure that's dividing by zero.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 04, 2016 11:53 AM (659DL)

290 Turkey. Tryptophan FTW!
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2016 11:51 AM (cWLG9)

********

Oh ya--that knocks me out.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:53 AM (mcm0N)

291 Baron Vladamir Harkonnen would use Kasich as a toothpick.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2016 11:53 AM (hWrM7)

292 One of the telling moments of the Q and A held at UMass after the Crowder, C H-S, and Milo presentations was when a guy stepped forward and said,

"I expect this will get a lot of boos here, but I'm the president of the campus Democrats and ...."

He paused. And nobody booed him.

The guy went on to say he supported the right of the speakers to have different opinions and was praised by Crowder and Co.

An observation that would have been utterly mundane 30 years ago is now a Brave and Praiseworthy Statement.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 04, 2016 11:53 AM (u0lmX)

293 Slightly off topic. When I first heard of adult coloring books I thought it was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard but my 92 year old mother loves hers. I bought her a 64 crayon box with crayon sharpener built in yesterday. I looked at available coloring books and you can get just about anything and some are even semi-educational. They had one of illuminated texts from medieval texts, for example. I considered buying one to color while listening to music. DON'T JUDGE ME!! I WAS BORN THIS WAY!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 04, 2016 11:53 AM (Nwg0u)

294 NBC news now reporting Kasich is out.

Posted by: blaster at May 04, 2016 11:53 AM (2Ocf1)

295 213----Prof. Vijay Singal is extremely accomplished.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM
----------------
Did I say he wasn't? Did I say he was a loser who didn't deserve his position in the business school?

I said that he is unlikely to have any understanding of the American tradition embodied in the Bill of Rights.
Where would he get such an understanding? From the New York Times?

(BTW, if his name were John Smith, he would have less understanding of the Founders than his grandfather did.
That's a given in the post-Ayers era of civic education.)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 04, 2016 11:53 AM (T/5A0)

296 ace said nood Kasich

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:53 AM (FsuaD)

297 nood; Katshit

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 04, 2016 11:53 AM (vvmPQ)

298 NOOD! Katshit dropping out?!?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 04, 2016 11:54 AM (OQ9R7)

299 My husband swears by Golf Digest or The Economist. Puts him right to sleep

Posted by: ThunderB at May 04, 2016 11:54 AM (zOTsN)

300 I'll become a vegetarian, when pigs stop being made out of bacon

Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 04, 2016 11:54 AM (dpnZC)

301 I have become fully convinced that not only have we crossed the Rubicon, we are standing on the banks of the Styx waiting for the ferryman.

Posted by: Drill at May 04, 2016 11:54 AM (hOwSx)

302 I don't allow trolls as PCs...

Posted by: sven10077

Clearly not a Shadowrun game...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 04, 2016 11:54 AM (9krrF)

303 Some vegan idiot wrote a letter to the editor, blaming people who eat meat and dairy for contributing to global warming.

His throat needs a visit from my fist.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2016 11:52 AM (FsuaD)

I read the best, and meanest, advice ever the other day.

"When arranging seating at a dinner party, wedding reception, or other formal dinner, be sure to sit the vegan next to the CrossFitter."

Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 04, 2016 11:55 AM (mf5HN)

304 Congress really needs to repeal Title IX, get out of
the student loan business, and end all other subsidies to higher ed.
There are plenty of private companies and think tanks that can do the
research our national defense requires.
Posted by: Iblis

At this point in time, repealing Title IX might be the only thing left that can fix the univerisities. It has become so perverted in application, it will be used to do anything. Trump the Bill of Rights, a floor polish, a desert topping.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 04, 2016 11:55 AM (RFeQD)

305 Oh, noesssss!

Due to weather at the Cape, we are now targeting Friday, May 6 at 1:21 a.m. ET for the launch of JCSAT-14

Not sure why they are dead set on doing the launch in the middle of the nite (10:21 pm for me)

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 04, 2016 11:56 AM (iQIUe)

306 >>>Sleepy Time works well too.

actually that's the one i meant, couldn't remember it.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2016 11:56 AM (dciA+)

307 Ace, you say it can't go on, but enrollment says otherwise.
That normalcy bias is a huge thing. Huge. We still think we're a capitalist society. We still think and act as if we're a free society. The laws and reality don't seem to sway peoples' minds once they're made up.

So this can go on and will go on, as long as the majority of Americans see a college education as necessary to a better future for their children.

It is going to take something seismic to break that thought process, perhaps a collapse of financing, but my money says no on that. Perhaps yet another 8 years of graduates not finding good paying jobs in their field of study. I don't really know.

Besides, there's always the fallback position of pretending to "reform" colleges by shuffling the faculty deck. That could buy another decade.

Leftists know that education and media are the keys to socializing America, they won't let it go

Americans know that college is the path to a better future.

It can and will go on.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 04, 2016 11:56 AM (kKHcp)

308 Ass raping is too good for Katshit after this.

Posted by: Iblis at May 04, 2016 11:56 AM (9221z)

309 There was a kid who went extreme vegetarian and was complaining of being tired all the time. The flight doc had him come back in--and when the kid returned for his appointment the flight doc told him he needed to eat more protein-- then ate a Whopper right in front of him.

Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 04, 2016 11:56 AM (mcm0N)

310 Greg Gutfeld was able to somehow talk Joanne Nosuchinsky and Kat Timpf into dressing up in nurses uniforms for one of his publicity photos.

Yum

http://tinyurl.com/j9bxyot

Posted by: MTF at May 04, 2016 11:57 AM (/m8T6)

311 Time to cut my losses. I didn't get your stamp of approval, so I'll deliver my withdrawal from the race.

Posted by: Flowbee Mailmanson at May 04, 2016 11:57 AM (H9MG5)

312 I remember meeting a woman years ago who made it a point to ask every new person she met if they were a vegetarian

I prefer to be healthy.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at May 04, 2016 11:58 AM (evdj2)

313 >>Some vegan idiot wrote a letter to the editor, blaming people who eat meat and dairy for contributing to global warming.

That's a common component of the vegan community; he's not some crazy outlier.

Worse, the head of the USDA's Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is a vegan activist (she thinks livestock is bad for the environment), and - get this! - the committee has said that plant-based diets beat animal products for health promotion, disease prevention, and sustainability

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2016 11:58 AM (NOIQH)

314 257 Most universities in India, are heavily influenced by socialist thinking. This permeates a lot of so-called intellectual thought in India.

Which is actually pretty strange in its own way, as most of the people at universities in India are from the Brahmin class, and are used to being in charge, and usually not reluctant to tell you so, even in America."

Actually it's not strange at all. The elite left is a Brahmin class in the US. It's not any surprise at all that when Brahmins from the Old Country come to the New, they instinctively know which party to identify with..

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 04, 2016 11:58 AM (u0lmX)

315 Which of course is absolutely the right advice. Stop listening to what other people tell us to do, and start listening to our own bodies telling us what it does or doesn't want.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2016 11:42 AM (TOk1P)

People need to trust their own instincts and opinions instead of looking for an expert on everything from where to go to school to which TV show to watch.

That attitude, even more than an actually well-educated, intellectually curious, and informed populace, is a requirement for a functioning democracy.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 04, 2016 11:59 AM (xuouz)

316 This Just In:

Kasich dropping out.

-
You misheard that. He's dropping acid.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 04, 2016 11:59 AM (Nwg0u)

317 >>"When arranging seating at a dinner party, wedding reception, or other
formal dinner, be sure to sit the vegan next to the CrossFitter."

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2016 12:00 PM (NOIQH)

318 Katshit to Soros "Mission Accomplished, my Master"

Posted by: Iblis at May 04, 2016 12:00 PM (9221z)

319 I always thought of the company I used to work at as being full of NPCs having NPC conversations. After 6 months there everybody had run out of dialogue.

Holding cells, man. Poor liberals. They realize they're being fed bullshit but it's easiest to harness that desperation to hating the right.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 04, 2016 12:01 PM (xuouz)

320 When I was in college a gazillion years ago, people were buy those books they produce on a variety of subjects, history, art, design, etc. A lot of them were just line drawings and they colored them. So adult coloring, a stupid name, has been around forever. I like colors. I think they pick up a mood and are beneficial to people. And no, I dont color. I do dabble in watercolor but I am really bad at it.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 04, 2016 12:01 PM (iQIUe)

321
Oh, god. I got sat next to a woman at a dinner party who had made a short doc film on women and laundry. It had something to do with the early 20th century how women would hang out the wash, amidst the tenements and it was an opportunity to socialize. Okay, fine. But she kept going on and on about it. Sheesh@

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 04, 2016 12:05 PM (iQIUe)

322
Which source says that? I don't see it in any of the links or links from the links. The amount of material claimed to have been conveyed sort of implies (to me) paper or email communication.
Posted by: redsweater at May 04, 2016 11:19 AM (IMo04)
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I looked around for the text of the invitation in all of the links and I can't find it. It seems to have been a phone conversation.

Posted by: iforgot at May 04, 2016 12:05 PM (pC96u)

323 Decades ago someone successfully bred a jellyfish with a mindless parrot and became the source for college administrators.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at May 04, 2016 12:09 PM (3Mimg)

324 A Hokie is a castrated turkey.

Very sad, though. When I went to VaTech, in the winter of '75, I heard Moishe Dayan speak. The small but respectful audience was mostly cadets and a few other students like me and the dorm mate who went with me. I simply cannot see that happening today (were Dayan still alive).

Posted by: RickZ at May 04, 2016 12:19 PM (0ZkAE)

325 If he was never invited, there would have been no need to disinvite him.

Posted by: molloaggie at May 04, 2016 12:25 PM (QLf6R)

326 "He worried the campus was still recovering from the last BBT
Distinguished Lecture, which was delivered by Charles Murray on March
25."

Shouldn't the special snowflakes be awarded a Medal of Honor for their bravery? Or at least a Purple Heart?

Posted by: Ripley at May 04, 2016 12:38 PM (1BQGO)

327 Meh, the caliphate (coming soon to a Democrat controlled urban center near you) will put a stop to this kind of crap. Thanks to the Branch Trumpidians on their efforts to allow Hilldabeast to become the 45th President of the USA. I don't think there will be a POTUS #50

Posted by: centralscrutinizer at May 04, 2016 12:41 PM (vI+F1)

328 Sad that my alma mater caved into this environment of fear the left has created. I always thought VT was different

Posted by: Oilfield Dude at May 04, 2016 02:01 PM (QyjPy)

329 For all the sanctimony and hyperventilatoin about the dreaded "1950s Blacklisting" what is currently going on is many magnitudes worse.

Not only was communism an actual danger, with active communist attempts to influence public opinion to compromise our defense of the West against bloodthirsty totalitarians, but the actual scope of the "blacklist" was limited to only a few major players in TV and the movie industry.

By contrast, the contemporary blacklisting of anyone who challenges victim-orthodoxy, or expresses an independent opinion at odds with the Gaystapo, spreads across media, academia, sports and even into completely private companies.

The "but its only a private institution not government" argument actually bodes worse. Although there is plenty of official tyranny over speech (threatening prosecution of "climate deniers", holding up Tea Party 501c3s, demanding "donor lists" etc etc) the "merely" private nature of the new blacklist actually signals the loss of our culture of freedom.
If there is no culture of freedom, no strong and near universally shared feeling for liberty, then there is no hope for opposition to "official" infringement of freedom.

And, as nature abhors a vacuum, when the culture of freedom wanes in private, its a short span of time until the "official" represssions become bolder and more frequent.

Yes I'm in a cheery mood today.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at May 04, 2016 02:24 PM (k8tEg)

330 https://goo.gl/TxpxHd

Petition to end social justice in universities

Posted by: Maxyp at May 04, 2016 02:39 PM (DjLh9)

331 > Mango Ice Cream. Not the more commonly found mango sherbet, but mango ice cream.

> You can generally find it in Indian (dot, not woo-woo) food stores.

Hey, that's racist!

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 04, 2016 03:35 PM (lIjxj)

332 As a Virginia Tech alumni, I mourn the demise of scholarship at this school. An engineering, agricultural, and mechanical institution has morphed into a multi-culti, pacified, social justice institute.

Posted by: SicSemperTyrannus at May 04, 2016 06:43 PM (o/QWg)

333 "For the same reason an adulterous priest continues to give sermons about fidelity."

A priest cannot marry, therefore cannot commit adultery. (Lutheran, Anglican, and some Orthodox priests can marry, but I don't think that was meant.)

For "adulterous" read "fornicating".

Posted by: Rich Rostrom at May 06, 2016 12:05 AM (YkV15)

334 There's a group in Colorado whose mission is to keep straight white men from running for office. The group is led by 2...errr straight white men.

The stupid runs deep in this country.

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