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2007-03-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve 2007-03-01 12:34|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The above bio harvested from the comments of Deans, colleagues, students, clients and collector's.

Somebody (everybody?) forgot "whack job."

Posted by Thraith Spaise6426 2007-03-01 13:31|| 2007-03-01 13:31|| Front Page Top

#2 yeah, yeah, right, I'm following him, but, do tell, since I'm a willing cog in the coming New World Order (am I not here at RB, doing my part for the VRWC?)... what exactly will be my reward? I expect something in return for selling out to The Man, mind you. And I'm not aiming high, so it wil be easy to please me and reward me, and not too expensive either. Thanks in advance.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-01 13:40|| 2007-03-01 13:40|| Front Page Top

#3 That ya picture, perfesser, cuz you look like a Vegas pimp.
Nice bio, too. Can your ego fit in the same room as you?

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-01 13:41|| 2007-03-01 13:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Who is this dingbat and who actually thinks an absurd bio like that sounds impressive to anybody but a dingbat?

People like this frighten me because they actually believe all these ridiculous things with absolutely no proof to back them up. They're so crazy that they don't know they're crazy. And that's scary.

Posted by eltoroverde 2007-03-01 13:54|| 2007-03-01 13:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Dear heavens, some of the comments in here are just so over-the-top, even by moonbattery standards. It just lays there screaming "Fisk me! Fisk me!"

. . . rattling of his perennial saber . . .

I like perennial sabers so much better than annuals. Annuals, you gotta get new seeds and replant 'em every spring, and it takes months before they grow big enough to rattle. A good perennial gets big enough after the first year, and you can propagate cuttings easy and after a few years you'll grow enough sabers in a modest backyard garden for you to equip a full cavalry troop.

The next step will be the initiation of a Theocratic National Constitution, overseen by a New World Order Inquisition.

"Ha! Nobody expects the New World Order Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and the fanatical devotion of Fox News.... Our four...no... Amongst our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again....."

There is only one way to stop Bush and it must be done quickly. A special prosecutor must be invoked and Bush Cheney must be indicted. Attempting to stop them by new laws, will fail because Bush has the right of veto and the Dems do not have the numbers to over come the veto, and they cannot count on the Supreme Court to uphold the Constitution or any injunctions filed against attacking other nations.

"So, why won't Bush just feed the special prosecutor to the New World Order Inquisition and be done with it that way?"

"Because he's a special prosecutor, with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men."

"But won't the Supreme Court just ignore him anyway? I mean, if they're already ignoring the Constitution, why stop there?"

"Because . . . because . . . YEEEAAAGGGHH! We're doomed!"

"There, there now, it's all right. Here, take your thorazine like a good boy and the voices will stop. . . . ."

Posted by Mike 2007-03-01 13:59|| 2007-03-01 13:59|| Front Page Top

#6 I bet he was one of the loonbats telling us Dubtya was gonna cancel the 2004 and 2006 'lections as well...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-01 14:13|| 2007-03-01 14:13|| Front Page Top

#7 The Pre-Pearl arguments were justified

Not really. All we had to do to avoid WWII was to roll over for the Axis Powers. Because we didn't, we were attacked.

If the US were truly the fascist regime claimed by it's critics, why did we side with 'losers' like China, the USSR, France, etc?

If we wanted better oil contracts with Iraq, just lift the UN embargo on Saddam like Chirac advocated. We'd have sold the Kurds, Shi'ites, Kuwaitis, and possibly Saudis down the river but so what? We're meanies, remember?

Posted by JDB 2007-03-01 14:18|| 2007-03-01 14:18|| Front Page Top

#8 How did anyone get past the first paragraph?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-03-01 14:24|| 2007-03-01 14:24|| Front Page Top

#9 If we wanted better oil contracts with Iraq, just lift the UN embargo on Saddam like Chirac advocated. We'd have sold the Kurds, Shi'ites, Kuwaitis, and possibly Saudis down the river but so what? We're meanies, remember?

If we wanted cheap oil we would have conquered Mexico. They are local and slowly invading us. An excuse would not have been diffcult to create.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-01 14:36|| 2007-03-01 14:36|| Front Page Top

#10 I went back and actually googled this jerk off. He wrote a self published sci-fi book about baseball and a "maniac president" and then gave himself some positive sock puppet reviews.

Truly pathetic. I'd bet this guy has some real mental issues.

BTW, a lot of the people at OpEd seem to be "On The Fringe" academic-types who boast an adjunct professorship but basically live on food stamps. Towns like Ithaca, Madison, and Berkeley are full of them. Sad.

Posted by JDB 2007-03-01 14:39|| 2007-03-01 14:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Nimble: I managed to get through the whole posting here only with the aid of a leaded glass front plate for my laptop (scrounged from the Advanced Light Source at LBNL and designed to stop X-rays that'll kill you in 30 nanseconds if exposed). Unfortunately, I fear that by the time I'd finished the posting here enough radiation had leaked through the leaded glass to inflict serious damage upon my person (I'm using duct tape to hold together the pieces that are in danger of exploding).

The rest of the bar is dead too from background leakage. I'm hoping beer works as a cure. It seems to be so far...

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-03-01 14:55|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-03-01 14:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Nice rant - untarnished by either facts or reason. I give it an 85 only because the work 'Hitler' does not appear until roughly 2/3s the way through.

Posted by SteveS 2007-03-01 15:08|| 2007-03-01 15:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Greg: Beer works, but it takes too long. You need more aggressive therapies. Single malt Scotch, straight up--STAT!

Posted by Mike 2007-03-01 15:09|| 2007-03-01 15:09|| Front Page Top

#14 I think the most relevent part of his biography was "He taught seminars . . .on creative profit making". As long as you stay away from reality, these theories make perfect sense.

This is a child prodigy brain. This is a child prodigy brain on LSD. (Somebody obviously forgot to tell the professor to stay away from the Kool Aid.)

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-03-01 15:14|| 2007-03-01 15:14|| Front Page Top

#15 Did sombody tip this loon, because ya can't get to the link anymore.

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-01 15:43|| 2007-03-01 15:43|| Front Page Top

#16 He holds a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Anthropology, Architectural Design Advertising.

Sorry, but none of those "disciplines" require critical or even logical thinking. This is a case of a hothouse flower criticisizing the weather outside, a total and complete loser. Now, if he held a degree in fingerpainting...

Posted by RWV 2007-03-01 15:45|| 2007-03-01 15:45|| Front Page Top

#17 I'm getting a "Cannot find server" error . . . hey, you don't suppose the vast right wing christer homophobic Mossad conspiracy cut their wires to crush dissent, do ya?

Posted by Mike 2007-03-01 15:47|| 2007-03-01 15:47|| Front Page Top

#18 As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade

Then why does he write like a 10-year-old who has just consumed an entire case of Red Bull?

Posted by Secret Master 2007-03-01 16:07|| 2007-03-01 16:07|| Front Page Top

#19 The Imperialist Warmonger Party Supports the US taking over the world. It's what what Teddy R. wanted;) Smart countries will apply now for statehood.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-03-01 16:10|| 2007-03-01 16:10|| Front Page Top

#20 Mmmmmm...single malt scotch...

I'm feeling much better now...

And, what RMV said. Most notably, anthropology is not a hard science or discipline. I once had a human paleontology instructor suggest in class that humans had developed longer penises than primates because chimps have been observed to "kiss" each other (the exact same argument was used for the dimunition of human canines from those found in primates).

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-03-01 16:12|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-03-01 16:12|| Front Page Top

#21 Paleontology is Greek for "don't get laid much"...

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-01 16:38|| 2007-03-01 16:38|| Front Page Top

#22 Paleontology is the Greek science of not getting laid much, right?

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-01 16:40|| 2007-03-01 16:40|| Front Page Top

#23 ...top three goals of Bushites is to get the oil. The second is to win in 2008...

um... unless jeb wins, Jr. can't run for a third term. Wow, what an unhinged loon.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-03-01 16:40|| 2007-03-01 16:40|| Front Page Top

#24 "...E's a bloody loon."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-03-01 16:48|| 2007-03-01 16:48|| Front Page Top

#25 The links back up. And there's a link at the end of this masterpiece for even more of Perfesser Pete's Wit and Wisdom. Such as...

SOME QUESTIONS FOR CANCER RESEARCHERS AND THE CDC, WHAT IF CANCER IS NOT A DISEASE?

A PETITION TO THE POPE TO CENSURE G W BUSH AS THE 21ST CENTURY ANTI-CHRIST:

THE BUSH PRESIDENCY AND HIS ORIGINS, AND A HANDFUL OF SAD AND ANGRY ANGELS

There's some comments on some of them, and they're even screwier then he is.

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-01 17:12|| 2007-03-01 17:12|| Front Page Top

#26 tu3031 - I do just fine, thanks very much...

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-03-01 17:12|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-03-01 17:12|| Front Page Top

#27 Another Ward Churchill wannabee...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-03-01 17:43|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-01 17:43|| Front Page Top

#28 I was reading at the graduate level at that age, too, and my IQ is very much on the charts. It's a matter of having the books lying about the house, is all. Unless you're talking about the hard sciences and engineering, which actually require a large technical knowledge base, and the understanding to manipulate them. For that matter, by the time I was in second grade I was editting Daddy's oncology research papers before he submitted them to the biochemistry journals... but that was to remind him where the verbs go, and to replace commas with periods every half page or so. Even though I thought I understood the content, I didn't really. On the other hand, I eventually figured that out -- it looks like Mr. Professor Emeritus never did.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-01 18:35|| 2007-03-01 18:35|| Front Page Top

#29 It's significant that he doesn't identify the schools that granted his degree. Teaching artists often don't have PhDs but they do tend to have MFAs. A quick but probably complete review of the scholarly literature for papers he's published turns up bupkis, not surprisingly ... so too a search on gallery exhibits.

Guy's a wanna-be and a hustler. But y'all knew that ....

Posted by academic-type 2007-03-01 18:45|| 2007-03-01 18:45|| Front Page Top

#30 That is a fabulous resume/bio/CV. It has nothing to do with the content of this article, but . . . um . . . er . . . well, just nothing. Maybe it's art!

Posted by Closh Slealing7392 2007-03-01 19:47|| 2007-03-01 19:47|| Front Page Top

#31 Lest we fergit, REGIME CHANGE in Iraq as US policy was begat under POTUS Bill Clinton; plus as per RADIO ISRAEL > Israel believes Iran might attack first.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-01 23:26|| 2007-03-01 23:26|| Front Page Top

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