Tim Blair

frightening shit.....with the emphasis on shit!

I wish I had a Reagan poster. I'd put him right next to this big one of Anna Kournikova and my decor would be complete.

It takes them 9 pages to explain that not every student believes the government will save the world....

Although this isn't as funny as the exact same premise when they did it a month or so ago (there were some priceless quotes in that one from tender-minded profs so crestfallen that their students actually... gulp... admire Reagan!), and it's considerably more blatant in its bias, I actually think it's a much better piece in that it draws a distinction the other didn't between flavors of conservatism and shows how much more libertarian these kids are than the D'Souzas of the 80s-- Falwell's "majority" and Disney's campaign donations in return for strangling digital media rights will both be anathema to these kids. It will be interesting to see how all this plays out in the years ahead.

I was more amazed by the condescension of the piece. The young woman "gushed," no one had an idea of their own, none of this could have happened without adult supervision from conservative groups, etc, etc.

Having been in academia in the late '60's, trust me, you could have written a similar story about liberal or left-wing students. It was my observation (as a vet and a libertarian/anarchist) that most of the guys in that movement were there for the sex.

Jorg has that right! Being an 'activist' of the
left was the only way most of those narrow
shouldered wusses could get laid - by undergrads, I seem to remember. (The ladies in grad school all
seemed to throw themselves at the Alpha males just
back from Vietnam...which might account for my
overweening smugness ever since.)

The whole right = athletic, left = unathletic is a tired and fairly useless cliche.

What a hoot! I agree that one could have written a similar piece on the 60's movements (and many many did at the time). I know. I was there. But I never bought into the hippie stuff; it mainly served to disrupt an education that I was working full time to finance. I didn't appreciate it at all.

So, I've been enjoying the spectacle of watching those of my generation who failed to mature run helter-skelter in the ultimately futile attempt to avoid getting creamed by the swing of the pendulum. I find the justice of reality a saving grace of 9-11. I've always dispised the adaged about "good" coming out of evil; the only good that is possible is the lesson learned. But I find it an absolute good that the abject failure of the ideology of leftist statism has been exposed in almost every area of society - most especially in the media and academia.

It's the karma, dude.