About a week ago, Google dug up an odd little bit of satire in an Onion knock-off called Carbolic Smoke Ball. [The text is gone now—all that’s left is a picture of a goofy quarter.]
North Carolina’s Commemorative Quarter to Honor Duke Lacrosse False Rape Case
DURHAM - North Carolina officials proudly unveiled the state’s new commemorative […]
Also tagged culture war, Duke University, Michael GustafsonI know I’m supposed to be putting up some kind of “wrap-up” post, but somehow it’s just not happening. In the mean time, stuff like this comes up, so why hold back?
Duke’s African and African American Studies Department is getting a new chairman from Harvard—the devil incarnate, er, I mean, J. Lorand Matory. According to […]
It’s time for me to stop the endless picking apart of KC Johnson’s blog, Durham-in-Wonderland (DIW). In fact it was probably time a few months ago. I’ll never reach the level of the poor sap who’s spent years defaming Brian Leiter, but I might end up on par with the one who got a bad […]
Also tagged Duke University, KC JohnsonIn the middle of my last post I promised a list of some of the bullshit I’ve come across in Durham-in-Wonderland (DIW). It’s only, what? three weeks later? not quite a month? Anyway, here it is, a collection that lends credence to Harry G. Frankfurt’s comment that the “normal habit of attending to the way […]
Also tagged bullshit, Duke University, Karla Holloway, KC Johnson, Kerry Haynie, Mark Anthony Neal, Richard Brodhead, Wahneema Lubiano, Wiegman-Lubiano-HardtI wonder how many people at Duke read KC Johnson’s editorial about campus reactions to the allegations against the lacrosse team, posted on Inside Higher Ed on May 1, 2006 (probably at least one—in the comments there’s a brief clarification signed “Mark Anthony Neal”). It’s an editorial that deserved more attention than I suspect it […]
Also tagged bullshit, Duke University, Karla Holloway, KC Johnson, liestoppers, Mark Anthony Neal, potbangers, Tim Tyson, Wahneema Lubiano