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2006-05-15 Home Front: Culture Wars
Condoleezza Rice at Boston College? I quit
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Posted by tipper 2006-05-15 07:50|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Cool. Now BC can shift your slot to a useful major.
Posted by ed 2006-05-15 08:14||   2006-05-15 08:14|| Front Page Top

#2 "I cannot, in good conscience, exhort my students to pursue truth and knowledge..."

Personally, I'd rather not have people like you exhorting America's youth about anything; in fact, I'd be perfectly happy to see your kind evicted from our universities at gunpoint.

Bye bye, Parasite. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out-- and good luck with that new job flipping burgers!

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2006-05-15 08:28||   2006-05-15 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't let the door hit you on the butt.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-15 08:28||   2006-05-15 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 From his website:

Steve Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, aka The Town Where God Will Retire. He spent seven years as a newspaper reporter, mostly in El Paso and Miami. He has been writing fiction for the last eight years. His work can be found in a whole bunch of literary magazines, along with the occasional porn outlet. He lives in Somerville, MA, and teaches creative writing at Boston College.



Note: Dr. Rice has a PhD.

Steve here doesn't have any educational accomplishments (at least on his resume) outside of a bunch of fictional writings.
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-05-15 08:33||   2006-05-15 08:33|| Front Page Top

#5 If God wants to live in Palo Alto, he'd better get a law degree.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-15 08:40||   2006-05-15 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Whoaa...If this guy hangs it up where will BC ever find another liberal adjunct professor of English to replace him?
Posted by DepotGuy 2006-05-15 09:06||   2006-05-15 09:06|| Front Page Top

#7 In this sense, you leave me no choice.

When Leahy gets to this line, he's going to bust a gut laughing.

"No! Not that! Anything but that! Hee hee. Better send someone down to the corner where the migrant workers hang out, and have them pick up another adjunct."
Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-05-15 09:15||   2006-05-15 09:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, he's a self important boob, but ya gotta give the guy credit. At least he put his money where his mouth is.
Now let's see how many tenured faculty making six figure salaries who are so pissed off about Rice being there follow his lead?
My guess? The big doughnut...
Posted by tu3031 2006-05-15 09:27||   2006-05-15 09:27|| Front Page Top

#9 This asshat was on John Depetro's morning show on Friday, calling for (among other things) the immediate redistribution of all wealth in the US (which has nothing to do w/ Dr. Rice, I know, but...). He came off as incredibly arrogant and impervious to every single argument presented to him, even calling Depetro a 'Bush lackey' (yes, KCNA apparently outsources their speechwriting).
Posted by Raj 2006-05-15 09:56||   2006-05-15 09:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Bill Clinton is a convicted liar, but I bet this asswad wouldn't quit if he were the speaker.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-05-15 11:48||   2006-05-15 11:48|| Front Page Top

#11 bigjim-ky, the 'professor' actually said something very close to that, now that I think about it a bit more (the standard 'that was just about sex' line).
Posted by Raj 2006-05-15 12:44||   2006-05-15 12:44|| Front Page Top

#12 Found out will not get tenure, eah?
Posted by gromgoru 2006-05-15 13:47||   2006-05-15 13:47|| Front Page Top

#13 This asshat was on John Depetro's morning show on Friday, calling for (among other things) the immediate redistribution of all wealth in the US...

His first.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-05-15 13:49|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-05-15 13:49|| Front Page Top

#14 As an adjunct professor, he doesn't even get to step onto the tenure track. Not a mover'n'shaker, this one.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-15 14:50||   2006-05-15 14:50|| Front Page Top

#15 “Many members of the faculty and student body already have voiced their objection to the invitation.” Translation: We have been whining why haven’t you heard us? Good example to the students that will soon be competing in the job market. Anyone want to hire anyone from Boston College that objected to Condi?
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-05-15 18:24||   2006-05-15 18:24|| Front Page Top

#16 I'll bet you a doughnut he's not even a good p0rn writer. { ;^)
Posted by Parabellum 2006-05-15 18:24||   2006-05-15 18:24|| Front Page Top

#17 For those unfamiliar with Palo Alto, CA. It is a cesspool of liberal fuzzy thinking. Great shops and restaurants though.

-M
Posted by Manolo 2006-05-15 18:30||   2006-05-15 18:30|| Front Page Top

#18 Please step in front of a truck when you quit. Thnaks.
Posted by SPoD 2006-05-15 19:52|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]  2006-05-15 19:52|| Front Page Top

#19 not that I'm up to the task - but I'd like to see someone take a red pen to his writing.
Posted by 2b 2006-05-15 21:38||   2006-05-15 21:38|| Front Page Top

#20 I took a look at his website, 2b. The former adjunct professor may have been a newspaper reporter in the past, but now he earns his bread and butter as, according to his answers to one of the letters, "merely a sex columnist who smokes a pipe in the nude," telling people why they oughtn't tell brother about the sex dream, or the bar mitzvah tutor about thoughts of man/pre-pubescent girl love affairs. What I saw didn't merit a red pencil, and he is probably well-suited to teach an introductory class in creative writing. What his website, his chosen subject matter (erotica or porn, I suppose), and his letter to the College president reveal is a certain unsuitability for thinking on weightier topics.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-15 22:25||   2006-05-15 22:25|| Front Page Top

#21 How many other colleges can we book Condi at?

Great way to clean out the cesspools that pass themselves off as educational.
Posted by  Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut  2006-05-15 23:22|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-05-15 23:22|| Front Page Top

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