Ivy Losers

In the United States, we have a select group of prestigious colleges and universities called "the Ivy League." Presumably, that was in reference to the ivy growing up the brick walls of the buildings, all evoking some sort of social elitism and academic excellence. The League part being a reference to an athletic conference -- the toffs only play with other toffs. Actually, they'd be slaughtered by even second rate state colleges and universities in common sports such as baseball and American football.

But there is something very, very wrong about assuming that these institutions are bastions of common sense or that they stand for freedom of intellect. You see, they are the very antithesis of democracy and freedom of expression or thought -- they are (collectively) Ground Zero for liberal orthodoxy: think the way we do, or else. They are also breeding grounds for actions and politics so beyond the pale in terms of reality, that it beggars belief. Astoundingly, corporations and industry continue to regard the products of these institutions as the most valuable, and competitively bid for their services (nobody was ever fired for buying IBM ... but the trouble here is the IBM of yore has become the biohazard of today).

Star Simpson (20 y/o or so), a sophomore studying electrical engineering at MIT created an interesting t/sweat-shirt with circuit boards, flashing LEDs, batteries and wires ...leading to a handfull of play-doh (putty-like goop).

She did this to stand out during some type of campus recruiting event. She then thought that she would go to Logan Airport and wait for her 42 year old boyfriend. She went to the information booth where, upon seeing the device on her t/sweat-shirt, she was asked by the airport employee what it was. Rather than saying what it was, she merely said, "art." Now, Logan Airport was the airport from which two of the 9/11 planes departed, and if anything, people at Logan should be sensitive to the threat of terrorism. But look at a picture of Star ... you cannot just dismiss this person as a common whacko. A security agent would be justified in being a tad concerned see this person wearing a device like that at the best of times, and completely within their rights blow this person away -- just on the face of it -- when seeing this person at a security sensitive zone such as an airport. Had this been in Europe, she would likely be dead. As it was, she was challenged by the State Police and managed to to avoid being shot to death by following instructions to the letter ... a false move and she would have been in the morgue.

Boston earlier this year was subject to the ministrations of two other performance artists, and they planted electronic devices all over the city for a publicity stunt and then filmed the chaos. The corporation which sponsored it paid huge fines to make the criminal liability go away. Star Simpson, is a student at one of the most elite universities on the face of the planet. You simply cannot attend MIT unless you are basically a certifiable genius -- or so everyone would tell you. So where is the genius here? Are you going to tell me that someone attending Northwest/ Southeast Tech would do this? Some community college sot post kegger would balk at this type of hubris. But Star gets $750 bail and her friends bemoan the "idiots that can't tell LEDs when they see them." And, "she's a performance artist and marches to the beat of her own drum." I don't care if she is the frikkin Pope. Only in Boston would she walk. Only in Boston would her Homies in academia stand up for this shit.

The net of this is that almost any excess can be excused if committed by politically liberal persons, and these kids, the "best and brightest" from all over the world have a sense of entitlement that is breathtaking. Boston, having a handful of these institutions has to bear the brunt of their actions and thinking. We, the hoi palloi, the great unwashed, simply are not smart enough to understand.

Ok, I hear you thinking that "one idiot does not a hotbed of idiots make ...." Wrong. The whole lot of these Ivy League places are stuffed to the rafters with self-absorbed idiots and hypocrites: Columbia University has decided to give Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a platform to speak from. Oh, great ... they are supporting free speech! Not exactly. You see when they issued the invitation to Ahmadinejad, they issued an invitation to the head of state of a government that is actively supporting the anti-American insurgency -- that supplies guns, training and supplies to people who kill Americans. The same butt-head is also on record of saying -- recently -- that Israel should be wiped off the map, and that the Holocaust did not happen. Some of Butt-head's minions were just killed when they screwed up the installation of a chemical warhead on a Scud missile -- the target of which was undoubtedly Israel. Butt-head governs a country that just executed two men for having homosexual relations -- their sole "crime." Butt-head was part of his country's homegrown Islamic-style KGB, responsible for eliminating those who did not accept his form of Allah-worship. The ROTC cannot come to campus because of the military's policy to gay men, but Columbia invites someone with a simpler policy towards gay men, he shoots them. A double standard?

So when cornered, the Dean at Columbia said that all this is why they wanted to get A-jadhole to speak at Columbia, to be subject to questions and discourse from its students. But it turns out that it won't work that way. Columbia students may submit written questions and some higher academic (Boosh-hating) authority will determine which questions are asked and in what order. Hmmm.... Really, Columbia and all the other far-left universities will invite anyone or do anything that might make Boosh and America look bad. That is political orthodoxy today. Asked whether by that token Columbia would invite Hitler, the President of Columbia said that if they could engage him in debate and get real answers, they would. However, the same bunch of hypocrites chased off of the stage and refused to provide security to an American who wanted to talk about border security and illegal immigration. Sorry, no forum for that.

There is not much difference between the Ivy League institutions -- your thought is valid only inasmuch as it fits with their thought, and of course, if you hate Boosh. No matter how insane, no matter how much it might hurt America, if you identify as an orthodox liberal, you can have the stage at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Columbia, etc. If you speak for reason, for the right of persons to have differences of opinion, religion, or the mere right to live (Israel), you are a class enemy.


Perhaps if people stopped hiring their graduates that might change. Nothing stops a liberal quicker than the prospect of having to pay their own way.