On Scotch Eggs Super Hot For 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5NCDYB1Lc
Waddling around...I'm the king of the town...I'm the (scotch) egg man.
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On Coaching Them Up
Given your high opinion of Coach K as a recruiter, what do you think causes so many of his kids to be busts in the NBA?
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On Secret Blacks-Only Obama Meeting Discovered by the Jews That Run Media
I don't have a problem with the media being on him about this. I mean, don't you remember how nuts they went when Bush had that secret whites-only meeting?
Oh. Wait.
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On Black Rob, "No Fear"
Or you can keep the piano high: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmiMFvTRzgI
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On Dystopian Wisconsin: Who is Ron Johnson?
Memories of you,
Ron Johnson
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On Harvard Prof Mounts a Defense of Teaching "The Wire"
Why do you think that?
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On Harvard Prof Mounts a Defense of Teaching "The Wire"
I don't agree with this at all. I think the social sciences aren't just about putting together a bunch of facts, they're about figuring out a framework to understand them--a framework that's basically narrative. Fictional accounts of real things can be an important way of helping people develop that narrative framework, and they aren't necessarily less valid narratives just because they're shelved in a different section of the bookstore. For example, a lot of people are citing Gang Leader For A Day--is that book really that different? Venkatesh went and talked to a lot of people who were directly involved in the subculture he's describing, and put it into a book--so did David Simon and Ed Burns.
I mean, I don't think that any professor should teach The Wire uncritically--I think it's just as interesting as a document of how elites are thinking about social problems right now as it is a comment on those social problems--but I don't think it's correct at all that it doesn't belong in a social science classroom just because it's fiction. I mean, is it a problem for people studying World War I to read Wilfred Owen (or Pat Barker for that matter)?
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On The NFL in Order of a Team Name's Significance to its Home City
The Jets used to play at Shea Stadium, right next to LaGuardia, so there were always planes flying overhead during their games.
The Giants were named to piggyback off the success of the baseball team (I think).
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On What Is Shari'a Law?
Hold the phone. UCLA (a public university) has a professor of "'"Islamic Jurisprudence?"'" Don't you mean a PROFESSOR OF SHARIA LAW??? I am freaking out right now.