Paul on Puppetgate
As you can imagine, Paul thinks the whole row is rather idiotic.
Damian thinks it’s rather daft as well. And given his strict sense of fair play, he has posted a link to the offending piece.
And speaking of the mad bleating in paranoid delusion, Peter has a few choice cuts from the letters page of the Guardian.
3 commentsWell, this is brave…
“A student group at Roger Williams University is offering a new scholarship for which only white students are eligible, a move they say is designed to protest affirmative action. The application for the $250 award requires an essay on ‘why you are proud of your white heritage’ and a recent picture to ‘confirm whiteness.’ ” (02/15/04)
The College Republicans are rather brave to attempt this. I am sure that the college will try to get them for hate speech. This is an original idea for a protest. It will be interesting to see what comes of it. I wonder if the students who apply for the scholarship will be accused of racism as well. Displays of pride in one’s heritage, if one is white, are generally frowned upon at modern universities. It seems that the politically correct brigade see this as triumphalism, and that’s offensive to minorities.
No matter what my ethnicity is, I’m making a statement that scholarships should be given out based on merit and need,” Mattera told the Providence Journal.
Mattera is Puerto Rican and has crossed swords with the college administration before over the CR’s publications’ content.
Comments are off for this postFree state project hears from Libertarian Presidential Candidate
“A Hollywood movie producer turned Libertarian presidential candidate told a group of free-thinkers Saturday that American citizens should have the right to live their lives without government intervention. Aaron Russo spoke Saturday to members of the Free State Project at the Homewood Public Library [Birmingham, AL]. The Free State Project is an effort to recruit 20,000 people seeking liberty from overbearing government to move to New Hampshire, according to the organization’s Web site. ‘We are not the property of the government,’ he said. ‘The government should never legislate morality.’” (02/15/04)
This bit on an alternative candidate to Bush and Kerry comes from Rational Review. And Robin Williams seems to have pulled a “Dixie Chicks” and slagged off Bush while abroad. Williams is one of the few people I know of who was less of a total prat when he was on cocaine (he was funnier too).
“Another American entertainer decided to use his celebrity status to criticize President George W. Bush on foreign soil on Wednesday. Actor/comedian Robin Williams was in Berlin promoting his upcoming science-fiction flick, ‘The Final Cut.’ However, he decided to use the platform to launch an all-out assault against the President of the United States. Speaking at the Berlin Film Festival before a group of international journalists and film critics, Williams was harshly critical of Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq and the search for weapons of mass destruction. ‘Bush is complaining about a lack of intelligence, which seems sort of redundant,’ Williams joked to Reuters. ‘They say they don’t know if Iraq had any WMDs — well, all they have to do is ask Cheney for the receipts.’” (02/13/04)
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