…and idiots. Univeristy [sic] idiots.

The wonderland that is Durham continues. I have the same question as the commenters–what kind of a university would hire a loon like this to teach young people? Is this a problem unique to Duke, or does every university have such creatures among its professoriate? I fear the answer.

I hope that they take the pro bono offer in comments and sue him for slander.

At an American university.

Move along, folks, no suppression of dissent to see here.

I’ve seen stories that the killer had been diagnosed as autistic at age eight. Assuming that’s true, while he clearly was functioning at a fairly high level, when you hear the stories of his academic behavior at college, one has to wonder–how did he get into VPI? What kind of high-school record did he have?

Was there some affirmative action going on here? (Kind of strange, if so, because usually Asians are disadvantaged by it.)

How did this guy acquire such a hatred of “rich people”?

Surely it couldn’t have had anything to do with the fact that he was under the tutelage of the English Department?

Huh? Why would someone go to a polytechnic university to get a degree in English?

Huh? Why would someone go to a polytechnic university to get a degree in English?

Huh? Why would someone go to a polytechnic university to get a degree in English?

This looks like a good book for kids.

I think I’ll get it for my niece and nephew–I’d like them to understand what their grandparents went through. And I’m afraid they’ll be too busy learning rain-forest algebra to pick up any actual history in public school.

Somehow, I think that (too frequent) commenter Brian Swiderski would do quite well on the new SAT essay section.

[Via Jeff Goldstein]