The Dirty Dozen:America's Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses

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<p>Speaking of whacko courses. One of my daughter’s professors assigned a Pat Buchanon essay for tomorrow’s class. That surely ought to qualify for somebody’s outraged top 10 list!</p>

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<p>I am horrified to think that the good kids at Swarthmore <em>Swaties</em> need be subjected to the middling writings of this two-time presidential speech writer, presidential candidate and major media American journalist.</p>

<p>The young Swaties (cherubs?) have been much abused…
…a green tea colonic and a campus production of the *Vagina Monologues<a href=“as%20read%20by%20John%20Edwards/Sean%20Penn/Hilary%20Clinton”>/i</a> may be the only way to get them back now.</p>

<p>To add insult to injury, to the best of my knowledge Mr. Buchanan is neither a feminist, nor even a Marxist; and he has never once condemned the male patriarchy–phallocentric-politicians–capitalism–Western civilization and what’s worse, he’s an unrepentant Catholic that has stubbornly resisted the post-modern urge to think “Jesus” either a communist or a closeted gay middle-eastern man on the prowl in Judea.</p>

<p>…the indignity! </p>

<p>Who or what’s next…</p>

<p>…William F Buckley?!
………………Ronald Regan!?
…Winston Churchill, for god’s sake!?</p>

<p>Somebody get these poor children a mandala of Barak Obama.
Ohhhmm….Ohhhmmmm….finger snap…Ohhhmmm…Ohhmmm…finger snap…</p>

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<p>Maybe the Swatties need a dose of this guy:
<a href=“http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2007/02/05/the_redneck_resource_center[/url]”>http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2007/02/05/the_redneck_resource_center&lt;/a&gt;
“Redneck Resource Center”…“National Association for the Aggravation of Caucasian People”…I’d say there’s still hope for academia. I sure hope he has tenure…</p>

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<p>…that and a bowl of true grits.;)</p>

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<p>I rest my case. Thanks, Dorothy.</p>

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<p>“If they read and really understood Plato, and the horror that was Roman civilization, they couldn’t end up but be anything else but liberals.”</p>

<p>For all the horror that Rome was, and it was, the Europeans have spent the last 15 centuries trying to put the empire and the Pax Romana back together. The EU and the EU constitution are the latest manifestations of that political dream. Organizations on that scale of Rome or the EU have only arisen in a few places ane seldom for long periods of time. That scale of political organization and the wealth and peace that come with them are products of ideas that bind men’s hearts and minds. That is why we study these dead white guys.</p>