The Everlasting Phelps

The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz:

Being an intellectual means thinking your way toward a vision of the good society and then trying to realize that vision by speaking truth to power. It means going into spiritual exile. It means foreswearing your allegiance, in lonely freedom, to God, to country, and to Yale. It takes more than just intellect; it takes imagination and courage. “I am not afraid to make a mistake,” Stephen Dedalus says, “even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity, too.”

So now “Fox & Friends” is photoshoping images of NYT reporters? Stupid and unprofessional.  That is the only thing that comes to mind.  Given all the complaints about unprofessional Obama coverage, you should be minding your Ps and Qs.  Instead, you feed into this opinion.

You want a comedy show with no credibility like the Onion or Colbert?  Then do one.  But don’t pull shit like this on news stories.  Either the images I am seeing on my screen are trustworthy or not.  I expect these sorts of shenanigans from the AP or from USA Today, but not from you.  Much more, and I’ll lump you into the same group.

Jeff Lord is doing it. And he sees the same thing in Obama that I do.  It’s funny — six months ago, I would have said that McCain was the one to worry about from this standpoint, but he’s a trifle compared to his opponent.

Just when I thought that only Republicans have sex scandals anymore, a couple of Dems come along and blow toe tapping and intern-IMing right out the Fing water.

(HT: AoS)

So it turns out that the Brownshirts are back. I’m not pointing this out to smear the Obama campaign. I’m 90% certain that they had nothing to do with this. This was some jackasses who thought that this idea of “dialog” needed to Change. The only reason that I am bothering to point it out is to remind people who jump on any malfeasance against their group as evidence of some widespread inclination to dirty dealing that what goes around comes around.

Update: To clarify, I do not in any way consider UBM to be acting like a Brownshirt.  The goons getting blogspot blogs taken down are the ones I refer to, and they are much further into the extreme than anything going on at UBM’s site.

This photo, to me, points to a bright 21st century.  I think there are a few people in her vicinity that are still thinking like it is the 15th century.  I think that they are few, not many, and she will do an admirable job of bringing the stragglers up to speed very quickly.

About 1800 fps I would guess.

We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.

Via SU.