Dr. J. was astounded with the President’s speech, the timing of which dovetailed nicely with his most recent faculty meeting on Wednesday. Let’s go to the funny pages for the President’s speech: Our first priority is aimed at providing better … Continue reading →
Private universities sued their tax exempt status? WTF? When Dr. J. saw this article last week, it made his eyes pop out of his head, much like those of Aria Stark actress Maisie Williams’s after she watched the Red Wedding … Continue reading →
Little Red 1 writes in regarding Dr. J.’s rant against his seniors in the academy: Oh wise Dr. J, Greetings from the frozen steppe! Might I add a small thought to your excellent essay on baby-boomers and academia? Several of … Continue reading →
The Ivory Tower’s a nice place to visit, come by, have a spot of tea. Dr. J. loved The Czar’s thoughtful analysis of Big Skool. He is right in that the tides are slowly turning as the Baby Boomers who … Continue reading →
Long before most of you remember, the Czar predicted that the Next Big Thing to blow up on the Left will be academia. Stiff competition from online schools, skyrocketing tuitions, zero-guarantee job placement, and repeated exposure about how stupid the … Continue reading →
The Czar is wont to make predictions, and today he makes another one. Society has basically had enough with goofy leftism. 2010 saw a major political swing back toward something resembling common sense, although clearly there is much work to … Continue reading →
When Dr. J. saw this post by Kevin D. Williamson, he immediately thought of the Castle Grammarian, Torturer and Executioner, The Czar. He was quite pleased that The Czar penned something on the subject before Dr. J. awoke this morning. … Continue reading →
It is very likely that the Supreme Court voted regarding Obamacare on Friday. Now, the public won’t know the results of that vote until the opinions are written and released in June. Indeed Friday’s vote, from what Dr. J. understands, can … Continue reading →
O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in it! Tempest Act V, Scene i This post was inspired, in part by an email sent by Operative … Continue reading →
GorT and at least one other Gormogon are fans of the Josh Whedon’s canceled-too-early Sci-Fi series, Firefly. So when it is part of a PC-gone-crazy scheme, I had to alert our readers. Courtesy of a number of sites, including the … Continue reading →
If you’re not familiar with Emily Grace, who basically runs our PR department these days, you should be. On her own site, she compares Americans to the rioters in the UK and makes some astonishing points. She states she is … Continue reading →
The Czar and your Mandarin were discussing the Obama personality disorder the other day, and yours truly suggested that he has all the mannerisms of the haughty teaching assistant who hates being challenged by a student. And, we see, that … Continue reading →
Is it not a strange irony that so many American liberals (a) want to follow Europe’s examples across the board, and (b) attempt to diminish if not redact Ronald Reagan’s responsibility for ending the Cold War peacefully? The irony being … Continue reading →
Continuing in a curmudgeonly vein, ‘Puter offers the following example of elitist disconnect. The politics of this individual don’t matter, but his status as an Ivy League professor does. ‘Puter offers the following comments captured in today’s Washington Post concerning … Continue reading →
You may have heard that the University of Missouri St. Louis (UMSL) had some explaining to do when students alleged that two co-instructors—under the aegis of teaching Introduction to Labor Studies—taught, encouraged, and flaunted illegal and unethical activities to two … Continue reading →
Apparently, 57% of Swiss voters say no to gun control. Don’t expect to see this news story make the newspapers around the US, do ya? The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. … Continue reading →
Here’s a well thought out exegesis of liberal academia, its causes and its effects. ‘Puter can’t improve on it at all, so read it. Read it now! Brought to you by the letter “F” and the number “6.” Also courtesy … Continue reading →
You’ve made it clear that, deep down, you really don’t like the United States. In that, you are like many of your Ivy confrères, all those Harvard-Yale-Princeton types who find the spectacle of individual freedom playing itself out irredeemably vulgar. … Continue reading →
Angelo Codevilla in the American Spectator (Thanks, Jonah.): Today’s ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and … Continue reading →
In 1928, D.H. Lawrence wrote a poem entitled “How Beastly the Bourgeois Is” in which he compared the middle class to a “fungus, living on the remains of a bygone life/sucking his life out of the dead leaves of greater … Continue reading →
Just imagine if the progressive whackjobs that ran Europe into the ground decided to get together, and form a Euro-supergroup, a rock band of megastars who would basically do it all over, but this time as one gasping grab at … Continue reading →
The Czar generally does not vacation to happy places. He did once, and was so delighted by what he found that he had the entire housekeeping staff gunned down. The Czar is not sure why he thought to say this, … Continue reading →
Reuter’s Bernd Debusmann writes that gun sales in America are increasing along with economic anger. The Czar is well aware that gun sales are increasing, and Debusmann gets the reason correct: a notoriously anti-gun Senator is elected President, with rumors … Continue reading →
