Comments on: Brown University and the GOP to the Rescue in New Orleans http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/ Conservatism for punks. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:38:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2508 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:16:56 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2508 Here, by the way, is what Nomad might sound like doing stand-up comedy: http://youtube.com/watch?v=GRLsBvtdfZ0 Here, by the way, is what Nomad might sound like doing stand-up comedy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GRLsBvtdfZ0

]]> by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2507 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:56:47 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2507 And that someone would be me -- right you are. Maybe a piece of fan fiction in which they fight each other (and Terminator) is in order. And that someone would be me — right you are. Maybe a piece of fan fiction in which they fight each other (and Terminator) is in order.

]]> by: Ali T. Kokmen http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2506 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:44:37 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2506 I have nothing to add about the nature of Brown student politics, but in the interests of nitpicky accuracy in pop-culture references: The robot on Star Trek that went about sterilizing everything it deemed imperfect was named Nomad, not Nimrod. Nimrod was, however, the name of a mutant-hunting robot in the X-Men comics, so someone might have conflated the two robots somewhere along the line... I have nothing to add about the nature of Brown student politics, but in the interests of nitpicky accuracy in pop-culture references:

The robot on Star Trek that went about sterilizing everything it deemed imperfect was named Nomad, not Nimrod.

Nimrod was, however, the name of a mutant-hunting robot in the X-Men comics, so someone might have conflated the two robots somewhere along the line…

]]> by: Todd http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2479 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:51:05 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2479 See above for my reaction to it. See above for my reaction to it.

]]> by: Adam http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2465 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:27:10 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2465 What's up, my columnists! Did all you Fellows love the letter from RF a few months ago, in which she huffily resigned her post because of a humiliating budget cut? I'm thinking of organizing a bake sale. What’s up, my columnists!

Did all you Fellows love the letter from RF a few months ago, in which she huffily resigned her post because of a humiliating budget cut? I’m thinking of organizing a bake sale.

]]> by: Jacob T. Levy http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2369 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:17:11 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2369 Sigh. This is the topic on which I find it hardest to reach a warm-and-fuzzy Brown consensus with my fellow Brown alumnus. I loved the place, still do, and think that the people who so agitated Todd were barely more representative of the whole student body or professoriate than we were. As he points out in our case: cranking up the volume can create the false appearance of large numbers. Sigh. This is the topic on which I find it hardest to reach a warm-and-fuzzy Brown consensus with my fellow Brown alumnus. I loved the place, still do, and think that the people who so agitated Todd were barely more representative of the whole student body or professoriate than we were. As he points out in our case: cranking up the volume can create the false appearance of large numbers.

]]> by: toddseavey http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2197 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:07:35 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2197 By the way, on the topic of religious conflict, check out my next blog entry: http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/31/debate-at-lolita-bar-is-muslim-immigration-a-threat-to-democracy-and-what-about-miss-teen-south-carolina/ By the way, on the topic of religious conflict, check out my next blog entry:

http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/31/debate-at-lolita-bar-is-muslim-immigration-a-threat-to-democracy-and-what-about-miss-teen-south-carolina/

]]> by: Christopher http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2161 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:34:08 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2161 She didn't choose the name. The name chose her. Or perhaps it was handed to her by a hand rising out of a lake. She didn’t choose the name. The name chose her.

Or perhaps it was handed to her by a hand rising out of a lake.

]]> by: Xine http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2159 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:22:06 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2159 Ummm...someone told me FA *chose* "Nimue"...and she only started adding it to her Kalamazoo-conference listing in the past couple of years (where her copy of Malory is heat-sealed to her hand). My bad? Then again, I could also have confused her with post-modern Buddhist medievalist Louise Oranye Fradenburg, who definitely chose her middle name as an adult. Hmmm....what's more fantastical to choose as an adult--Catholicism or an exotic middle name, like the 12-year-old girl named "Susan" who suddenly announces, "From now on I'm 'Natasha'"? Ummm…someone told me FA *chose* “Nimue”…and she only started adding it to her Kalamazoo-conference listing in the past couple of years (where her copy of Malory is heat-sealed to her hand). My bad? Then again, I could also have confused her with post-modern Buddhist medievalist Louise Oranye Fradenburg, who definitely chose her middle name as an adult. Hmmm….what’s more fantastical to choose as an adult–Catholicism or an exotic middle name, like the 12-year-old girl named “Susan” who suddenly announces, “From now on I’m ‘Natasha’”?

]]> by: Christopher http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2158 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:34:46 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/29/brown-university-and-the-gop-to-the-rescue-in-new-orleans/#comment-2158 I found the Writing Fellow very useful, but then again my only Writing Fellow at Brown was apparently one of the greatest minds of his generation. But seriously, I do think it resulted in much improved student writing and am involved in an effort to implement something similar where I teach. I found the Writing Fellow very useful, but then again my only Writing Fellow at Brown was apparently one of the greatest minds of his generation.

But seriously, I do think it resulted in much improved student writing and am involved in an effort to implement something similar where I teach.

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