Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
This day in history…

Posted at 16:04
by J. A. Baker
in Uncategorized; War on Academia

Forty years ago today, architectural engineering student Charles Joseph Whitman initiated a sniper rampage from the top of the U.T. tower (the building on the right in the above picture). Before Austin police could take him down, Whitman’s fury left 15 dead and 31 wounded.

All available accounts of the incident point to a troubled youth with an abusive father who finally decided to end all the pain by going out in a blaze of delusional glory. In many ways, the the shootings could be seen as a warning sign of the voilence at high schools and middle schools across America to come, most especially the tragedy at Columbine High School.

However, given the hightened level of eliminationist rhetoric directed at those in academia, it is only a matter of time before someone pulls a Charles Whitman in the name of ideological purity.

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A Two-fer

Posted at 11:43
by J. A. Baker
in Religious Thuggery; GOP Bizarro World

And in related news to Mel Gibson’s DUI (in which he subsequently apologized for his anti-Semitic remarks), ABC has pulled the plug on Gibson’s Holocaust denial snuff piece miniseries.

While wingnuttia is 100000% positive (only 100000%, though, because some are ready to throw him under the bus) that this is yet more anti-Christian conservative hate on the part of Hollyweird, it appears that the network was unhappy with Gibson’s lack of productivity - namely that he had spent two years masturbating to Holocaust fantasies without a single line of dialogue to show for it. Nevertheless, Disney (which owns ABC) has said that Gibson’s self-financed movie about the Mayan Empire is still on for a slated December 8 release.

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