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Commentary on politics, history, culture, and literature by two Dartmouth graduates and their buddies
WHO WE ARE Chien Wen Kung graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004 and majored in History and English. He is currently a civil servant in Singapore. Someday, he hopes to pursue a PhD in History. John Stevenson graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a BA in Government and War and Peace Studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He hopes to pursue a career in teaching and research. Kwame A. Holmes did not graduate from Dartmouth. However, after graduating from Florida A+M University in 2003, he began a doctorate in history at the University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign. Having moved to Chicago to write a dissertation on Black-Gay-Urban life in Washington D.C., he attached himself to the leg of John Stevenson and is thrilled to sporadically blog on the Dartmouth Observer. Feel free to email him comments, criticisms, spelling/grammar suggestions. BLOGS/WEBSITES WE READ The American Scene Arts & Letters Daily Agenda Gap Stephen Bainbridge Jack Balkin Becker and Posner Belgravia Dispatch Black Prof The Corner Demosthenes Daniel Drezner Five Rupees Free Dartmouth Galley Slaves Instapundit Mickey Kaus The Little Green Blog Left2Right Joe Malchow Josh Marshall OxBlog Bradford Plumer Political Theory Daily Info Andrew Samwick Right Reason Andrew Seal Andrew Sullivan Supreme Court Blog Tapped Tech Central Station UChicago Law Faculty Blog Volokh Conspiracy Washington Monthly Winds of Change Matthew Yglesias ARCHIVES BOOKS WE'RE READING CW's Books John's Books STUFF Site Feed    |
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Some New Awards When one reads the D and newspapers around the world, one is often struck by the sheer incompentency of it all at times. So I am introducing some new awards such that we ridicule stupidity. The 'racist' war of America, perpetrated by the peacemongering sloganeering on campus, has reached new heights of arrogance in its sweeping condemnations and new depths of inconsistency in its message. Feel free to nominate things that you find that fit these criteria or create some of your own. The Judith Butler awardfor the most pretentious prose Jeffrey Hart award for unbridled right-wing hysteria Hemant Joshi award for exessive leftist rhetoric and irrational anti-Americanism Antonin Scalia award for the most devasting insult Tom Sowell award for the best deprogramming Noam Chomsky award for the opinion least emcumbered by knowledge The BBC award for blatant but unacknowledged reporting bias The Daniel Pipes award for undeserved hatred The NY Times award for bad predictions Al Sharpton award for anti-Semitism Shimon Peres award for anti-Zionism The Derbyshire award for the most egregious homophobia Ruth Bader Ginsburg award for racial paternalism The Edward Said award for the most egregious cultural relativism The Ted Turner for the most anti-religious sentiments Ann Coulter award for the least substantiated opinions |