Intermittent Contact (2)

Posting will be light over the next few days. To ease your suffering, you could always poke about in the archives or rummage through the greatest hits. Oh, and if you missed them first time round, there’s always the deadly disembodied cat’s head and the exploding banana mask. I know. You’re missing me already.

Comments

[James S]

The exploding banana mask made my morning. I had to see it through to the end.

[James S]

David, here's one to add to the list...

http://www.countingcats.com/?p=4135

[David]

I’m not familiar with the kind of thing I’m seeing.

[Anna]

I'd definitely play a game like that.

[clazy]

And here's something else appropriate to your blog, more nuttiness at Duke University, home of the lacrosse rape scandal:
http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2009/09/simply-extraordinary.html

"So, starting this semester, the University has adopted a new “sexual misconduct” policy—a policy that even some Duke administrators fear will lead to an increase in false rape claims against Duke students.

"...The second factor was a development that those in the reality-based community might consider to be a good thing: over a three-year period, reported cases of sexual misconduct on college campuses as a whole and at Duke specifically (slightly) declined.

"But for those convinced that the rate of sexual assault at Duke is higher than the rate of all violent crimes in Detroit, these figures must mean something else—that a plethora of rapes are going unreported. The enemy in this battle, moreover, is particularly devious. As Ada Gregory, director of the Duke Women’s Center, told the Chronicle, 'The higher IQ, the more manipulative they are, the more cunning they are . . . imagine the sex offenders we have here at Duke—cream of the crop.'”

It doesn't get better than that.

[Anna]

"A "fundamental principle" of the sexual misconduct policy is the following: "Real or perceived power differentials between individuals may create an unintentional atmosphere of coercion." How, precisely, should a Duke student be held liable for "perceived" power differentials creating an "unintentional" atmosphere of coercion? Duke's policy does not explain."

Witch finders.

[The Thin Man]

Dukes' ethos has something of "120 Days of Sodom" about it.

I suspect that the "power differential" is the one between the faculty and students who are not members of a protected class.

Such a policy is a projection of the Group of 88s intentions towards their enemy - a particular segment of the student body.

[Anna]

It's after 9 on Friday morning. I'm missing my fix of ephemera.

[Simen Thoresen]

While David is away, I'll try to supply a bit of unpalatable heroism;
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4075

"
It seems that some English policymakers feared catching blue-blood cooties from exposure to – in Oppen’s wry wording – “too many counts and barons.” Remember that Anglo-American leaders had no qualms about turning some hundred thousand men, women, and children into radioactive briquettes in order to “end the war”. (That is, to end it unconditionally, without need of peace negotiations.) And recall that in order to defeat the Führer, Allied leaders were quite willing to make an alliance with that famed international humanitarian Joseph Stalin.

But as for working with Hitler’s enemies within the German aristocracy… well, apparently that was asking a bit much. Whoa – come now, there are limits, after all.
"

On the left (as seen from afar) and who the real threat of the second world war was.

As an emphemera-offering, I submit the man of the many mustasches;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XHt32UVqLk&feature=PlayList&p=545D27A26DA99F0C

Hugs,
-S

[Anna]

"All the mustache changes were performed live and in real time without stopping." :)

[carbon based lifeform]

"David, here's one to add to the list..."

That's the maddest thing I've seen this week.

[Mr Eugenides]

It's like "Transformers" was directed by Tom of Finland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_of_Finland)...