misnomers

So much for "bean town" being an appropriate nickname for Boston. I see no correlation other than simple alliteration as I ate nary a Boston baked bean while I was there. I'd say a more apt nickname for that city is onion town, since they regularly put onions on everything yet do not ever mention this on the menu. The assumption that the whole world loves onions and would be thrilled by the pleasant surprise that they would come with every dish is a falsehood. I despise them.

I might also call Boston, beer town. I drank more beers than I have in years and acted like I was 18 (i.e. like a real fool). My pants barely zip and it took me several days to dry up and get rid of the aches in my thirty something muscles after my antics.

I am so glad to be back in Austin where nobody cares if you wear elastic waist pants and flip flops all year long and they thankfully list all ingredients on the menu. The only danger is of course the delicious Texas beers... Fancy Lawnmower from St. Arnold's Brewery being my current favorite.

parents beware

Please take a moment of your busy lives to watch this clip:


You gotta love Fox news for its dedication to keeping us safe. This lovely segment from Sean Hannity is focused on "dangerous" courses offered on college campuses across the nation. Courses lik this, in David Horowitz's opinion, are designed to indoctrinate our children and turn in them into leftist anti-capitalists, in other words make them "anti-American". Horowitz's argument is that such courses have conditioned a generation of people to not read the constitution, which has resulted in their belief that it is the responsiblity of society to provide us with everything we need for us.

One such course is offered here at UT in the history department: Che Guevarra's Latin America (gasp they are going to study Cuba). Parents beware, your children might learn about a historical figure who adhered to an economic philosophy that is different from the current one the world, lead by the U.S., uses. It's best we just do not expose them to such frightening nonesense like diference becasue we certainly do not want our children learning about or developing critical thinking skills that arise from being presenting with people, policies, religions, or systems, etc. different than the ones we know or that are are accepted by anyone outside of mainstream U.S. society. We do not want them to experience cognitive overload resulting from critical analysis now do we?

Allow me to bullet some of the other assertions made by Horowitz to support his claim that university campuses are dangerous for our children:
-any person enrolled in womens studies must believe that gender is socially constructed not biological--holy shit now this is RADICAL and SCARY--he said that if you go to the biology department they have proven that the male and female sex are different (Anissa's comment: DUH... thanks for helping demonstrate the very true fact that sex and gender are two distinct concepts. Too bad you did not know that your rant would prove that you do not understand this important point and help bolster the claim that gender is indeed not the same as sex thus not biologically determined or constructed.)
-Middle Eastern studies departments are supporters of Hezbollah and Hamas
-Muslim student associations/organization on university campuses are terrorist organizations
-all Obama activists, better known as ACORN activists, were trained in U.S. universities

My absolute FAVORITE part of of the interview though is that David Horowitz claims that its relatively easy to become a professor since we radicals recruit each other. AND the best part is that academics work about 6 hours a week, make 100G, and get 4 months off a year too. Woo hoo--I had no idea that I did not need this silly Ph.D that I am working on and that I was going to make so much money by hardly ever working--AWESOME!