Sourcing, InstaHick-Style
ABOVE: Professor Reynolds prepares for class.
Gun nut Perfesser Glenn “InstaCracker” Reynolds was certain to “Hey Indeedy” sooner or later on the UAH professor who shot some of her colleagues when she was denied tenure. Surprisingly, Perfesser Reynolds didn’t trot out the tried and true response that if the other professors had been allowed to pack heat on campus, this never would have happened. Instead Perfesser decides that the best thing to do is to point out that the shooter was a “socialist” and that if she were instead a conservative the MSM yadda yadda yadda Olbermann would yadda yadda slurp snort 24/7 honk honk hey indeedy.
True to the high standards of the Perfesser’s blog, he sourced the shooter’s political leanings from an impeccable and unimpeachable source: one comment on ratemyprofessor.com. Given the unquestionable authority of anonymous student comments on a rating website, it has now been irrefutably demonstrated that the InstaHayseed is a horrible, nightmare-inducing professor. Heh.
…and he never flushed…
Surprisingly, Perfesser Reynolds didn’t trot out the tried and true response that if the other professors had been allowed to pack heat on campus, this never would have happened.
They got students to do that job.
Reader George Berryman writes: “I’m guessing the ’she’s a socialist’ part won’t get talked about much in the MSM. But if she had been a conservative it’d lead every evening news cast for two months.”
Maybe they’ll talk about how hot she is.
Wow, one anonymous source says it so it must be true!!
Glen Reynolds blows goats, but only after class!
More from “Honest and REAL Student Testimonials:”
“Glenn Reynolds, on the other hand, was a robot tool…”
And by “socialist” they mean she was at least somewhat vaugely liberal, right?
I saw a troll on another blog working with this “Amy Bishop is on your guys’ team” thing – now I know where it came from.
My Socialists R Us manual is a little out of date. What edition features the chapter on “Shooting up your workplace because you didn’t get what you want and why this is Socialism?”
“Rate My Professors,” much like “Random Cab Drivers say the darndest things that support my Neocon Theories.com,” is a valuable resource for gathering reliable and TRUE information.
And by “socialist” they mean she was at least somewhat vaugely liberal, right?
It means she went to Harvard. JUST LIKE HITLER!
Reader George Berryman writes: “I’m guessing the ’she’s a socialist’ part won’t get talked about much in the MSM. But if she had been a conservative it’d lead every evening news cast for two months.”
Wotta frickin’ crybaby. Come on, George. Dry your victim tears and have the stones to stand up and say, “Socialists are murderers.” You know you want to.
Happy VD everyone!
Although I teach English, and one of the student comments about me is that I am “one of the worst professors in the engineering department,” I have complete faith in the reliability of RateMyProfessors.com as a predictor of antisocial behavior among America’s college faculty. See, if I were to suddenly teach an engineering class, I would likely be one of the worst professors ever to do so, and then it’s possible that also something bad might happen somewhere near me, and one of the comments on that website would explain why if only Glenn Reynolds would link to it and offer up a heartfelt Heh Indeed.
The incident certainly does make anyone who’s ever served on a tenure-granting committee pause.
How about it, Professor Reynolds? Voting on any academic personnel actions this semester?
Wow. Been a while since I’ve been to that site, and I forgot what a steaming turdbag it is. Also, my sources on MySpace tell me that this professor was OMG teh suxx0rz. Granted, it might just be someone with a similar name, but it would be irresponsible, etc.
Some of the reviews rank him high in the “hot ” category. Is there some sock puppetry going on?
My mother is an academic and she laughed HYSTERICALLY at the story: “Really? She killed three people? I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often!”
Of course, given some of the whack jobs in her department, maybe it was a nervous reaction. Still…isn’t the logical conclusion of Prof. Suxx0rz’s argument that the Second Amendment does indeed have strict limits? I mean, if socialists are murderous loons, what’s to be done about it except limit their access to dangerous weaponry?
Man, I hope the next time a professor is denied tenure, they take out the committee with a samurai sword: sheer awesomesauce!
Denial of tenure + samurai sword = stop TRIGGERING me, Hatchepsut.
Too bad they were in one of those ultra-liberal anti gun states like………Alabama.
Surely she must have gunned down those people because she’s Muslim. Or talked to a Muslim one time. Or because she was startled by seeing Arabic writing somewhere.
Reynolds has “the most famous, most read blog on the internet”??? Ummm…thanks, Dr. Helen.
OMG I have just been victimized by the spam blocker!!
“cheating, huh?”
FUCK YOU, NO I WASN’T CHEATING and neither did I remember to copy my goddamn comment before submitting. GRRRRRR.
Onward: I notice that in with the dozen “oh he’s so hot you will pine for him” reports – the one with all ones is marked “Under Review.” What a WATB.
Also: This is classic wingnut; if your people have a dreadful propensity for shooting up the place, seize on the first possible left-of-Attila shooter and tar the hated libs with it. “See?? See?! Your people incited violence too!”
Turn your weakness on your opponent. Attack at your opponents strength. It’s invariable.
I mean, if socialists are murderous loons, what’s to be done about it except limit their access to dangerous weaponry?
I expect he’d be OK with taking Second Amendment rights away from leftists. After all, that would make it easier to round us up into the camps when the time comes.
I remember reading (well, leafing through) a book of essays by William Buckley. One of them was written soon after an American kid was killed by the Contras for the crime of working on a Nicaraguan farm. The entire article was about Buckley (or his reporters, or somebody) trying to get the dead boy’s family and friends to admit that their deceased loved one was a Communist. Because, apparently, that would have made it OK for an American-funded terrorist organization to shoot him.
Remember people. Leftists don’t have rights. Muslims don’t have rights. Criminals don’t have rights. Black people don’t have rights. Gay people don’t have rights. Women don’t have rights. Only wealthy white straight Christian Republican men have rights. Everybody else has only privileges that can be revoked when necessary. It’s right there in the Constitution if you read carefully.
(Hey, there’s an idea for the next Conservapedia project. Once they’re done with the Conservabible, they can start on the Conservaconstitution).
So if I was to go to Rate My Professor and say he is a “no talent ass clown and a creepy, passive-aggressive never-nude”, by his reasoning it would be true wouldn’t it?
And by “socialist” they mean she was at least somewhat vaugely liberal, right?
In this case, she was socialist because she wasn’t a creationist.
Honest question: why does everyone refer to her in the past tense? I keep thinking she’s dead but she’s, y’know, not.
Honest question: why does everyone refer to her in the past tense? I keep thinking she’s dead but she’s, y’know, not.
She didn’t get tenure, that’s why.
Eat shit, Glenn.
I expect he’d be OK with taking Second Amendment rights away from leftists. After all, that would make it easier to round us up into the camps when the time comes.
Lurking Canadian, why do you think they keep pushing the myth that Nazi Germany enacted gun control involving mass confiscation of firearms? Of course the reality is, the Reich rescinded most of the draconian firearms laws enacted previously. It was only those pesky enemies of the State that were prohibited from owning weapons of any kind, good German citizens (meaning not Jews, Roma, Communists, etc.) got to keep theirs. And none of them did a damn bit of good for all the innocents murdered by the Nazis. They didn’t rise up against their government, they collaborated or ignored what it was doing. All this nonsense about “watering the tree of liberty” is just pretty talk for “anyone not like us needs to die and the government should get back to doing that and leave us alone”.
Was she a mathematician? ‘Cos that’s who does all the crazy murders down here in South Oz. Well, murders, suicides, and generally just going completely barking mad if no homicide is committed.
Should I have picked a different faculty for my degree, d’ya think? Or do I belong with the other mathematical loonies?
She was a microbiologist, so you’re probably safe.
I’m confused, her murder spree was politically motivated? You know like Jim David Adkisson’s, Richard Poplawski’s, and Timothy McVeigh’s among others?
You should check out Althouse’s RateMyProf. I have affidavits from the 3Bs that none of them described her as a total emu in Con Law, so it seems legit.
I couldn’t resist. I rated Instaputz: