I’d like to see someone like VDH write a book on the death toll from Democrats’ fetish for experts running from McNamara to Fauci. Seems to me that there are a tremendous number of parallels to the stories of these two horror shows — hubris, incompetence, dishonesty, slander and lots and lots more hubris starting with the rejection of wisdom derived from past experience and the silencing of dissenting voices.
Or maybe Jordan Peterson could write about the psychological and moral defects of people who are attracted to the batsh*t notion that Ivy League pointy heads and bureaucrats are “experts” capable of playing God with the lives of others.
How many more dead bodies need to pile up before we stop the madness of this fetish?
Perhaps McNamara, Fauci and the Mikey Mann, Algore climate warriors are all just variants of Lysenkoism.
Is there something inherent in the mental/emotional/moral makeup of lefties that inevitably trends to Lysenko style expert fetishes, bureaucratic hubris, abuse of power, corruption and incompetence?
Focusing on the population of lefties rather than the particular clowns who rise to power on the illusion of expertise. The snake oil salesmen will always be with us. The problem comes when the people buy into the BS and raise them up so they can rule as gods.
The View has picked up the Dem Talking Points on Bidens Docs. Someone nefariously put them there. Was it Trump tip toeing into Bidens garage?
Now whenever people talk about lunatic conspiracy theories, “the documents were planted” will become the standard.
Re: Conspiracy theories
During Rathergate I debated Dems who claimed that the fiendish Karl Rove must have planted the fake Bush TANG documents on Dan Rather in order to subvert the 2004 election.
Remember when Karl Rove was a fiendish mastermind?
Well Darth Chenney and BushHitler are “real,” not wildly exagerrated caricatures, so don’t jump to conclusions and deny the evidence. (sarc)
“Remember when Karl Rove was a fiendish mastermind?”
Well, I remember when the media told me he was, while the Democrats told me he was a fiendish idiot. For once I think the Dems were right, while the media were as usual completely wrong.
Someone nefariously put [the Biden documents] there. Was it Trump tip toeing into Bidens garage?
The perp might have been Hunter, dontcha know: “. . . Hunter Biden lived off and on at the Delaware home where classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president were found last month — giving him unrestricted access to America’s secrets both while hammering out shady foreign business deals and while under federal investigation. The now-52-year-old began listing the Wilmington home as his address following his 2017 divorce from ex-wife Kathleen Buhle . . . . Hunter also listed the home as the billing address for his personal credit card and Apple account in 2018 and 2019, respectively. . . .”
(It’s Friday the 13th . . . does anyone know where Brandon is today?)
Neo, I seem to recall you mention that you were going to write another post about the stolen election in Arizona. I’ve been doing a little research and the virtue signaling swine AZ state senator Paul Boyer keeps turning up. Republicans had a one vote majority in the State Senate and he consistently voted to stop any election reforms. If you have written a post please provide a link.
Bob Wilson:
I have a rough draft but other news keeps intervening. I’ll try to publish it in the next couple of days.
Yet another White woman pretending to be an “indiginous person” who was rolling along and collecting all sorts to benefits, until she was found out.
Now, she says that she needs to “process” things before she can deal with the knowledge that she ain’t an Indian.
WARNING TO ALL: Don’t even go and read a Twitter thread about Pete Buttigieg. The blind adoration of a man who, right now, might rank as a top 10 worst Cabinet Secretary in U.S. history, is soul-crushing.
If not for all the good and decent people who would suffer, I would pray daily for a complete economic and societal collapse because the number of Americans who are UTTERLY disconnected from reality is astonishing and none of them will ever learn without a massive amount of mental and physical pain.
Mike
I’m liking Barron’s educational materials for French. Checking their French Grammar book I discover that French has no less than 14 verb tenses.
Including the Past Anterior and Future Anterior tenses, whatever they are. Happily, I am informed they are limited to literary or scholarly texts.
Oof! Maybe I should have kicked a few tires on the language before buying the car…
Well, verbs are always nasty.
So I’m now running the usual gauntlet to register my courses for the next term. I need some humanities credits, so French 1 is on the shopping list.
According to the catalog, French 1 is taught old-school — in French only. So I’ll have to learn all those Ecoutez/Repetez/Repondez (Listen/Repeat/Answer) commands and “Je m’appelle Barbra.”
However, my blood ran cold when I saw the fine print at the bottom of the course description:
_____________________
This course will also develop the student’s sense of personal and social responsibility through the identification of social issues.
_____________________
Why? I just want to understand French song lyrics, read “The Little Prince” in the original and order a croissant if I ever make it to France.
Sorry to hear about the “loyalty oath” attached to a simple French course. Be aware, that as I was leaving academia it was becoming de rigueur that all courses listed in the catalog must contain a statement of DEI, and also in the syllabus. The college wide Education Committee came after me because my senior level quantum mechanics course syllabus didn’t contain a statement on how I was going to include DEI in the study of Schrodinger’s equation in all its glory and manifestations. I told them to pound sand…I could because it was my very last teaching assignment before retirement.
He/she may be required to include such a statesmen in order to just survive. Now, whether they are serious about the statement will, unfortunately, only be revealed during the course itself. At which point the student will have to decide if they want to deal with the bullshit or just drop the course and find something else.
huxley, just be glad you didn’t choose Arabic. Verbs have not only tenses but they are also altered according to whom they are referring; that is, they must take into consideration whether it’s a male, a female, several males, several females, or a mixed group. A simple phrase translated as “How are you?” must use the correct sex and number. A learned Arabic friend told me that this means that the commands in the Qur’an, written in classical Arabic, are directed to males, not to people in general.
He/she may be required to include such a statesmen in order to just survive. Now, whether they are serious about the statement will, unfortunately, only be revealed during the course itself.
physcisguy:
I imagine it is a matter of survival and today’s academia is an ultra-competitive world. So we shall see whether the DEI is boilerplate or has teeth.
Besides how deep can a language teacher go in French 1, when American students are grappling with gendered nouns, adjectives and pronouns and discovering verb conjugations?
I’m already working on my polite, but firm response:
Je suis Americain. J’ai mes propres opinions, s’il vous plait.
I am an American. I have my own opinions, if you please.
Possibly mes opinions propres, but you’re getting there.
Re: Arabic
AesopFan:
When I took first-year Russian, I saw the second-year class included a separate textbook titled “Russian Verbs of Motion,” that being a particularly tricky area of the language.
As I recall, you could tell by the verb form whether someone had gone and come back or the speaker did not know.
From what I’ve read, Arabic is up there with Chinese in posing difficulty to English speakers.
huxley, a woman I met who was making a seemingly-impossible effort was a Chinese national learning Arabic in a class taught by an Egyptian woman in English.
Kate:
Ouch! I wouldn’t envy the Chinese woman.
Still, like love, language will find a way. We are wired to learn language.
In the supermarket this morning I was half-listening to a song on the sound system and I noticed my brain was trying to pull it apart into French.
Not surprising, given how much French pop I’ve been listening to. I’ve got that molten feeling I get when I’m really learning something.
It’s been a disaster for my math. I’m still doing calculus in the morning, but I feel like I’m trying to sew with gloves on.
Sometimes it’s better to ride my brain in the direction it’s headed.
Life is to be lived, huxley. Bonne chance.
Merci! Kate.
My bilingual copy of “The Little Prince” just arrived.
Beautifully executed. A French and English column on each page, formatted so the two versions of text line up by the line. Plus a CD of the audiobook for each language.
The French is over my head but more comprehensible than I expected. Clearly I’m going to have an easier time reading French than hearing it.
“The Little Prince” was one of The Books when I was a kid. I’m so touched to see it again.
Kate, that’s a fascinating point about the Arabic language. It sounds like it means that women can freely ignore the Qur’an after all! Allah as much as says so hisself, no?
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I’d like to see someone like VDH write a book on the death toll from Democrats’ fetish for experts running from McNamara to Fauci. Seems to me that there are a tremendous number of parallels to the stories of these two horror shows — hubris, incompetence, dishonesty, slander and lots and lots more hubris starting with the rejection of wisdom derived from past experience and the silencing of dissenting voices.
Or maybe Jordan Peterson could write about the psychological and moral defects of people who are attracted to the batsh*t notion that Ivy League pointy heads and bureaucrats are “experts” capable of playing God with the lives of others.
How many more dead bodies need to pile up before we stop the madness of this fetish?
Perhaps McNamara, Fauci and the Mikey Mann, Algore climate warriors are all just variants of Lysenkoism.
Is there something inherent in the mental/emotional/moral makeup of lefties that inevitably trends to Lysenko style expert fetishes, bureaucratic hubris, abuse of power, corruption and incompetence?
Focusing on the population of lefties rather than the particular clowns who rise to power on the illusion of expertise. The snake oil salesmen will always be with us. The problem comes when the people buy into the BS and raise them up so they can rule as gods.
The View has picked up the Dem Talking Points on Bidens Docs. Someone nefariously put them there. Was it Trump tip toeing into Bidens garage?
Now whenever people talk about lunatic conspiracy theories, “the documents were planted” will become the standard.
Re: Conspiracy theories
During Rathergate I debated Dems who claimed that the fiendish Karl Rove must have planted the fake Bush TANG documents on Dan Rather in order to subvert the 2004 election.
Remember when Karl Rove was a fiendish mastermind?
Well Darth Chenney and BushHitler are “real,” not wildly exagerrated caricatures, so don’t jump to conclusions and deny the evidence. (sarc)
“Remember when Karl Rove was a fiendish mastermind?”
Well, I remember when the media told me he was, while the Democrats told me he was a fiendish idiot. For once I think the Dems were right, while the media were as usual completely wrong.
Someone nefariously put [the Biden documents] there. Was it Trump tip toeing into Bidens garage?
The perp might have been Hunter, dontcha know: “. . . Hunter Biden lived off and on at the Delaware home where classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president were found last month — giving him unrestricted access to America’s secrets both while hammering out shady foreign business deals and while under federal investigation. The now-52-year-old began listing the Wilmington home as his address following his 2017 divorce from ex-wife Kathleen Buhle . . . . Hunter also listed the home as the billing address for his personal credit card and Apple account in 2018 and 2019, respectively. . . .”
https://nypost.com/2023/01/13/hunter-biden-lived-at-delaware-home-where-classified-docs-were-kept/
(It’s Friday the 13th . . . does anyone know where Brandon is today?)
Neo, I seem to recall you mention that you were going to write another post about the stolen election in Arizona. I’ve been doing a little research and the virtue signaling swine AZ state senator Paul Boyer keeps turning up. Republicans had a one vote majority in the State Senate and he consistently voted to stop any election reforms. If you have written a post please provide a link.
Bob Wilson:
I have a rough draft but other news keeps intervening. I’ll try to publish it in the next couple of days.
Yet another White woman pretending to be an “indiginous person” who was rolling along and collecting all sorts to benefits, until she was found out.
Now, she says that she needs to “process” things before she can deal with the knowledge that she ain’t an Indian.
See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/nibiiwakamigkwe-co-founder-queer-indigenous-artists-collective-outed-white-woman-kay-leclaire/#disqus_thread
Like Hunter’s crash pad on a larger scale:
Migrants are ‘Drinking All Day,’ ‘Having Sex in the Stairs’ in Taxpayer-Funded Luxury New York Hotels: Whistleblower
WARNING TO ALL: Don’t even go and read a Twitter thread about Pete Buttigieg. The blind adoration of a man who, right now, might rank as a top 10 worst Cabinet Secretary in U.S. history, is soul-crushing.
If not for all the good and decent people who would suffer, I would pray daily for a complete economic and societal collapse because the number of Americans who are UTTERLY disconnected from reality is astonishing and none of them will ever learn without a massive amount of mental and physical pain.
Mike
I’m liking Barron’s educational materials for French. Checking their French Grammar book I discover that French has no less than 14 verb tenses.
Including the Past Anterior and Future Anterior tenses, whatever they are. Happily, I am informed they are limited to literary or scholarly texts.
Oof! Maybe I should have kicked a few tires on the language before buying the car…
Well, verbs are always nasty.
So I’m now running the usual gauntlet to register my courses for the next term. I need some humanities credits, so French 1 is on the shopping list.
According to the catalog, French 1 is taught old-school — in French only. So I’ll have to learn all those Ecoutez/Repetez/Repondez (Listen/Repeat/Answer) commands and “Je m’appelle Barbra.”
However, my blood ran cold when I saw the fine print at the bottom of the course description:
_____________________
This course will also develop the student’s sense of personal and social responsibility through the identification of social issues.
_____________________
Why? I just want to understand French song lyrics, read “The Little Prince” in the original and order a croissant if I ever make it to France.
[Expletive deleted] these loyalty oaths.
–Barbra Streisand, “Ma Premiere Chanson” – “Je m’appelle Barbra”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFqas4yt0Bg
Sorry to hear about the “loyalty oath” attached to a simple French course. Be aware, that as I was leaving academia it was becoming de rigueur that all courses listed in the catalog must contain a statement of DEI, and also in the syllabus. The college wide Education Committee came after me because my senior level quantum mechanics course syllabus didn’t contain a statement on how I was going to include DEI in the study of Schrodinger’s equation in all its glory and manifestations. I told them to pound sand…I could because it was my very last teaching assignment before retirement.
He/she may be required to include such a statesmen in order to just survive. Now, whether they are serious about the statement will, unfortunately, only be revealed during the course itself. At which point the student will have to decide if they want to deal with the bullshit or just drop the course and find something else.
huxley, just be glad you didn’t choose Arabic. Verbs have not only tenses but they are also altered according to whom they are referring; that is, they must take into consideration whether it’s a male, a female, several males, several females, or a mixed group. A simple phrase translated as “How are you?” must use the correct sex and number. A learned Arabic friend told me that this means that the commands in the Qur’an, written in classical Arabic, are directed to males, not to people in general.
He/she may be required to include such a statesmen in order to just survive. Now, whether they are serious about the statement will, unfortunately, only be revealed during the course itself.
physcisguy:
I imagine it is a matter of survival and today’s academia is an ultra-competitive world. So we shall see whether the DEI is boilerplate or has teeth.
Besides how deep can a language teacher go in French 1, when American students are grappling with gendered nouns, adjectives and pronouns and discovering verb conjugations?
I’m already working on my polite, but firm response:
Je suis Americain. J’ai mes propres opinions, s’il vous plait.
I am an American. I have my own opinions, if you please.
Possibly mes opinions propres, but you’re getting there.
Re: Arabic
AesopFan:
When I took first-year Russian, I saw the second-year class included a separate textbook titled “Russian Verbs of Motion,” that being a particularly tricky area of the language.
As I recall, you could tell by the verb form whether someone had gone and come back or the speaker did not know.
From what I’ve read, Arabic is up there with Chinese in posing difficulty to English speakers.
huxley, a woman I met who was making a seemingly-impossible effort was a Chinese national learning Arabic in a class taught by an Egyptian woman in English.
Kate:
Ouch! I wouldn’t envy the Chinese woman.
Still, like love, language will find a way. We are wired to learn language.
In the supermarket this morning I was half-listening to a song on the sound system and I noticed my brain was trying to pull it apart into French.
Not surprising, given how much French pop I’ve been listening to. I’ve got that molten feeling I get when I’m really learning something.
It’s been a disaster for my math. I’m still doing calculus in the morning, but I feel like I’m trying to sew with gloves on.
Sometimes it’s better to ride my brain in the direction it’s headed.
Life is to be lived, huxley. Bonne chance.
Merci! Kate.
My bilingual copy of “The Little Prince” just arrived.
Beautifully executed. A French and English column on each page, formatted so the two versions of text line up by the line. Plus a CD of the audiobook for each language.
The French is over my head but more comprehensible than I expected. Clearly I’m going to have an easier time reading French than hearing it.
“The Little Prince” was one of The Books when I was a kid. I’m so touched to see it again.
Kate, that’s a fascinating point about the Arabic language. It sounds like it means that women can freely ignore the Qur’an after all! Allah as much as says so hisself, no?