Are Saudis financing the suit?

I thought Canada had backed off a lot of the ridiculous CBC PC rules - guess not.

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Scary Conservative Self-Demonization Kit

After chatting to Perry yesterday, I read the recent nonsensical post by Jim Henley, of Unqualified Offerings, in which he accuses Steyn of various evils on the basis of someone else's comments, wrongly attributed; however, rather than issue a short apology, we get another long, tedious piece in which the accusation is repeated, on the basis of inferrals etc. I quite used to enjoy Henley's blog but he's lost the plot.

Is there any other way to help Mr Stein, like a donation to a legal defense fund or similar? I would not mind having the book (though I would not send it to those nutters in Canada; where did that idea come from?), but the "books-to-read" pile is too high at the moment.

Am I missing something? The page appears to be totally blank, apart from the heading.

Am I missing something? The page appears to be totally blank, apart from the heading.

It all works fine for me.

Same here...

Pedr Gogg

The heading is a link.

As for the idea buying the book again and, perhaps, sending the copy to the Candian "human rights" agency is a good idea - although the "human rights" people would just have a mass book burning (which I am sure would rather please them).

So perhaps some better use for the extra books could be found.

The Candian education and media "system" seems to be better at its vile job than the one in Britain.

Ask someone in Britain what they think of "multiculturalism" and they will either say "what is that?" or say think it stinks.

Ask a Canadian and most will get a trance like look in their eyes and repeat in a robotic voice "our-diversity-is-a-source-of-strength" and a few other stock forms of words.

Sometime the crapness of British education is not a totally bad thing - it is as bad at brain washing people as it is everything else.

Paul
A good place to get a feel for that "trance like look" would be the following site.

Cheers

Paul Marks;

puts me in mind of Prager's view of a university education (mostly outside the physical sciences). Those who go in with a very solid foundation and those who go in to get drunk for four years may come out fine.

must encourage canadian students to drink more

Almost every Canadian I have met or had dealings with in the past has been an idiot. Other than the writings of Mark Steyn, I yearn for the day when I see some sign of intelligence from a Canadian.

Ask a Canadian and most will get a trance like look in their eyes and repeat in a robotic voice "our-diversity-is-a-source-of-strength" and a few other stock forms of words.

The perfect description of it.

Other than the writings of Mark Steyn, I yearn for the day when I see some sign of intelligence from a Canadian.

Indeed. Aside from possibly New Zealand, Canada is the most vacant, politically correct place in the world.

That said, I envy them Stephen Harper. His many faults aside, he's one of the more competent leaders of the first world at the moment. We, on the other hand, seem likely to be given the choice of Some Incompetent Socialist or Some Incompetent Religious Nut in 2008. Same as in 2004.

J.M. Heinrichs

Thank you for the link to the Small Dead Animals site - yes it was good.

spidly.

Quite so - but what a waste that makes of so many degree courses.

There was a time when the "Liberal Arts" did not mean brainwashing into a certain political point of view.

What is the point of going to college for years to either be bored and irritated (because one is not getting any new insights - other than from private reading, which one will not have a chance to discuss with any experienced scholar) or just to be spending years drunk out of one's skull?

"We need the degree to get a good job" - i.e. the bit of paper for material gain, seems to be the main motivation for going to university now.

The academics who claim to hate "greedy capitalism" have so debased education that most students only go to university out of a desire for more money later in life - not out of any real love of the subject or subjects they study.

There was a time when few people had college degrees and it was quite normal for people to get good postions in work without one.

Indeed in some industries "college boys" were looked down on, and the bit of paper was certainly not a fast track for senior positions.

I think it is time to return to a time when a degree was not a "means to an end", but evidence of love of learning for its own sake.

Of course that may well mean the end of mass higher education.