How old is Bloom? In respect to "the people are stupid", is that really any different from what assorted academics and so forth have been saying since, well, the founding of the USA? (Although I will observe it seems to have got worse since the end of WWI).

Human nature is like a carrosel. On this ride, you do not know how you managed to get on or when you will get off. One thing is certain, the nature never changes, it just continues to go around and around. Some people will ride the horses but most will sit on the bench wanting to ride one of the horses.

The obvious run-along to both neo's post and your remarks needs analysis also. As the intellectualoids, secure among themselves, heap increasing scorn on the great unwashed, more of us will push back. Thus do they hurry along their own comeuppance, bless their parchment wrapped hearts.

Gerard: once again, you've nailed it. I am quite familiar with these people especially the so-called academic types. They are a bunch of self-absorbed, self-righteous snobs who presume to know what's best for everyone. And, no deviation from the rigid line will be tolerated. I've already ostracized myself at work as I have no compunctions about telling these twerps where to get off. Their heros Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, and their myrmidons are the subject of my total contempt. As yu stated, they do often live off of grants to do useless "social" research. I can tell you that every dollar that goes into this long-running pseudointellectual scam is wasted. In all my working years I cannot point to a single piece of publically funded social research that has either resulted in a product, an activity, or a body of knowledge that bettered anyone's life. If these grants did not exist they'd all be, as Mickey said, "pumpin' gas in Joisey City."

Gerard:

Excellent essay! By way of exposing a few cracks in the bubble's surface the unremitting persecution of Dr. Jean Cobbs at Virginia State University by its thuggish President, Eddie Moore (primarily because she, a black social scientist, had the gall to ride in the Republican parade), will soon result in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the school, and has already resulted in official censure from American Association of University Professionals (not exactly the most conservative organization on the planet). For a quick backgrounder check my blog here, and also check the FIRE website here. And don't miss the ongoing discussion of these and related issues at the National Association of Scholars.

So, not knowing how to self-correct, Eddie and his pals then went after some of Jean's supporters in the VSU faculty, most notably a tenured physics prof named Carey Stronach (currently the President and Board Chairman of the Virginia Association of Scholars). Moore started by firing several untenured physicists on Carey's staff who were critical to a large research grant awarded to VSU by the US Navy. The Navy then cancelled the contract, resulting not only in the loss of a great deal of money to the university, but cheating several physics students out of the fellowships they desperately needed to obtain their education. And that too could result in a lawsuit, as well as some sort of reaction from the Virginia legislature, which isn't terribly happy with the way Eddie's administration of VSU is hemorrhaging money.

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Why was my previous comment banned by the blacklist software?

OK, I'll try this again, and then I really have to go pick up the hooch for Christmas.

Gerard:

Excellent essay! By way of exposing a few cracks in the bubble's surface the unremitting persecution of Dr. Jean Cobbs at Virginia State University by its thuggish President, Eddie Moore (primarily because she, a black social scientist, had the gall to ride in the Republican parade), will soon result in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the school, and has already resulted in official censure from American Association of University Professionals (not exactly the most conservative organization on the planet). For a quick backgrounder check my blog here, and also check the FIRE website here. And don't miss the ongoing discussion of these and related issues at the National Association of Scholars.

So, not knowing how to self-correct, Eddie and his pals then went after some of Jean's supporters in the VSU faculty, most notably a tenured physics prof named Carey Stronach (currently the President and Board Chairman of the Virginia Association of Scholars). Moore started by firing several untenured physicists on Carey's staff who were critical to a large research grant awarded to VSU by the US Navy. The Navy then cancelled the contract, resulting not only in the loss of a great deal of money to the university, but cheating several physics students out of the fellowships they desperately needed to obtain their education. And that too could result in a lawsuit, as well as some sort of reaction from the Virginia legislature, which isn't terribly happy with the way Eddie's administration of VSU is hemorrhaging money.

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Still can't get the comment past your blaclist software, so I'm posting it to my own blog. You be the judge of whether the blacklist software works appropriately.

Gerard,

I think the line is "You know, MORONS."

It goes something like "These people are the salt of the earth, the common clay of the new west... you know, morons."