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So you’re a feminist?…Isn’t that cute!

Mike S. Adams strikes a blow for the First Amendment in the college environment of “tolerance.”

Way to go, Mike.

The piece begins:

Dear UNC-Wilmington Board of Trustees:

It has recently come to my attention that a feminist student at UNCW has taken offense to a sticker on my office door which reads “So you’re a feminist . . . Isn’t that cute.” I found this out after obtaining a copy of a letter her father wrote to you, the Board of Trustees. I could comment at some length on the obvious hypocrisy of this student’s decision to ask her father to defend feminism for her, but I won’t. Let me get straight to the point: I did not put that sticker on my office door.

(DISCLAIMER: And I wish this weren’t necessary – I am all for the rights of individuals regardless of their plumbing. This piece isn’t about feminism it’s about “tolerance” in the college environment, and the apparent double-standard exercised by liberal educators and their victims acolytes. So there. If you want to post hate-mail accusing me of being an australopithecine misogynist, I suggest you go spend some time reading Michelle, Rachel, and Connie, all of whom I admire greatly. If they’re not “liberated,” nobody is.

Of course, this assumes that a prickly “feminist” type would be found dead here, but one can hope. Wait, that didn’t come out right….)

Why I Love Lileks and want to have his….want to write as well as he does:

Today’s Bleat is gooooood stuff.

Excerpt:

Right before I woke up I dreamed I had an assignment: write a bad feature story in the style of the New York Times. When I woke I had the last sentence still in my head; I stumbled next door to the studio, woke up the Mac, and typed this sentence:

Over in the field, a hound was hunched over excreting a “striver,” the local’s term for the hard, elegantly tapered stools for which the wild dogs are renowned.

I recounted this dream to my buddy Bill, the copy editor who sits a few feet away from me at work, and we agreed that a “striver” would be the new term for a piece of writing that was painstakingly crafted, produced with some difficulty, and was an absolute piece of crap.

ROFLMAO! Go read. He’s got some interesting things to say about beer, too.

Well, There Go My Chances…

I’m going to bow to inevitability here. NZ Bear’s New Blog Showcase competition is starting to pick up. This blog is currently third with my post Is the Government Responsible for Your Protection, Part II, but a distant third. First place? Electric Venom’s 20 Warnings About My Blog (a.k.a. “A Blogger’s Manifesto”). And it’s an excellent post. I think that specific post will end up on my Blogroll under “Read This if This Site Offends You.”

I bow in your general direction, Venomous Kate. You deserve to win. That was righteous.

Back from Watching The Matrix Reloaded

WARNING!! SPOILER ALERT!! READ NO FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT AND STILL WANT TO!

I have only one question – in the climactic scene where the Trinity fights the Agent, just after she is thrown through the wall, and just before she dives out the window, WHERE THE HELL DO THOSE TWO MACHINE-PISTOLS COME FROM???

She sure as hell wasn’t concealing ’em in that patent-leather catsuit.

Ah well, it’s just a movie.

Lileks Does Not Run My Life!

Regardless of what James Lileks has to say about it, my wife and I will be going out tonight to watch The Matrix Reloaded again. (“Trixies” my rosy red….)

So there.

That means I won’t be blogging (much) tonight.

Sorry.

(Obligatory gun nut spoiler: The full-auto pistol Morpheus uses is a Glock 18 – with a 33 round magazine. His kung-fu is very strong.)

Grieve for the Fallen

I don’t want to make this an ongoing thing, but:

TPD officer killed while chasing man

A Tucson police officer was fatally shot Monday afternoon while chasing a man involved in a hit-and-run collision in Midtown, authorities said.

Officer Patrick K. Hardesty, 40, became the first Tucson Police Department officer to be killed while on duty in 21 years.

Police said late Monday that the man detained after the shooting had been charged with first-degree murder in the officer’s death. He was identified by police as John Montenegro Cruz, 33.

No motive for the slaying has been released.

My condolences to his friends and family. My thanks for his willingness to sacrifice.

French Puzzle Over Why U.S. Got So Angry

That’s the title of this Sacramento Bee piece.

Money quote:

“What is a little disconcerting for the French is an American president who seems to be principled,” said Jean Duchesne, an English literature professor at Condorcet College in Paris. “The idea that politics should be based on principles is unimaginable because principles lead to ideology, and ideology is dangerous.”

So, politics should be, by definition unpricipled? No wonder they thought Bill Clinton was great.

Whack that man with a baguette.

Great. Juuuust Great.

Here I am, in the running for Best New Blog of the Week, and, once again, Blogspot either won’t let viewers in, or only shows them part of the page.

Oh frabjous joy.

I know that anything free is worth what you pay for it, but still….

Godwin’s Law Does Not Apply

Dave Kopel and Richard Griffiths have an excellent piece up on National Review Online, entitled Hitler’s Control: The lessons of Nazi history

Acquainting a new generation of television viewers with the monstrosity of Hitler is a commendable public service by CBS, for if we are serious about “Never again,” then we must be serious about remembering how and why Hitler was able to accomplish what he did. Political scientist R. J. Rummel, the world’s foremost scholar of the mass murders of the 20th century, estimates that the Nazis killed about 21 million people, not including war casualties. With modern technology, a modern Hitler might be able to kill even more people even more rapidly.

Indeed, right now in Zimbabwe, the Robert Mugabe tyranny is perpetrating a genocide by starvation aimed at liquidating about six million people. Mugabe is great admirer of Adolf Hitler. Mugabe’s number-two man (who died last year) was Chenjerai Hunzvi, the head of Mugabe’s terrorist gangs, who nicknamed himself “Hitler.” One of the things that Robert Mugabe, “Hitler” Hunzvi, and Adolf Hitler all have in common is their strong and effective programs of gun control.

Simply put, if not for gun control, Hitler would not have been able to murder 21 million people. Nor would Mugabe be able to carry out his current terror program.

That’s simplistic, in my opinion. Simply having guns does not mean that they will be used with effect. There’s a cultural / philosophical aspect to the question as well. For example, I think the philosophy of self-defense has been stripped from the English through decades of government propaganda. But without the means with which to defend yourself, there’s not a philosophy out there that will save your ass, or your people’s, when the excrement hits the rotating air impeller.

Go read.

Welcome to Visitors

Truth Laid Bear has started a New Weblog Showcase, and I’m in the running. With links to the showcase from both InstaPundit and The Volokh Conspiracy, I expect I’ll get at least, oh, six new visitors. So welcome. Spend some time. Leave a comment. (Please. I’m begging.)

Oh, and a link would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much. Come again soon!