Posted on 07/14/2010 3:26:11 AM PDT by Scanian
There's a funny story about Barack Obama at Harvard Law, both funny-ha-ha and funny-peculiar. It involves one of those cloud-borne Himalayan intellects of liberalism, Professor Larry Tribe, the Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. Tribe is the legal giant who is always a bridesmaid but never a bride for the Supremes.
And yea verily, the Professor met and held converse with The Blessed Lightworker Himself back in the nineties. The story doesn't say if they were both stoned out of their minds when they got together, but it's the only explanation I can think of. What happened is so weird and so discreditable to all concerned that I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Still, nobody in the liberal media seems to get the joke...which tells you a lot.
Professor Tribe, it appears, made it really big in academic law by writing trendy postmodern articles like "Toward a Syntax of the Unsaid: Construing the Sounds of Congressional and Constitutional Silence," "The Constitution in Cyberspace," "Toward a Metatheory of Free Speech," "Trial by Mathematics," and even "Seven Deadly Sins of Straining the Constitution through a Pseudo-Scientific Sieve," which turned it all into self-parody, because pseudo-science is exactly what made Larry Tribe's big reputation. This academic disease is commonly described as "physics envy." It arises out of academic inferiority complexes, with everybody wanting to do fake physics because that is real science.
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Zing!
I’ve been worried about my sick dog all night. This is the PERFECT antidote! LOL!
Obama flunked lunch at Harvard.
obama is dumber than a box of hammers... $800.00 a piece, paid for by Federal dollars, overpriced junk hammers.
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He didn’t flunk lunch.
He stole his lunch from another student so that the food wealth could be spread around. Then stood up on a table and accused the victim of being greedy for not bringing better food.
Then the skys opened up and pink and green unicorns swooped down and deposited skittles for every one.
What an act to follow...but then maybe Obama doesn't know how it all turned out for Nicolae and Elena.
As I get it, since reality is affected by relativity, therefore culture is affected by legal decisions.
Let’s boil this Tribe/Obama wisdom down: legal decisions affect things.
Gimmeabreak!
....and sharp as a bowling ball.
Help me out here.
So Tribe made an ass out of himself by writing a bunch of drivel and 0 got his name on it as a sort of honorable mention. Doesn’t this mostly show that Tribe is the dork, and 0 went along for the ride? How does this say anything about 0? This sort of thing goes on all the time in academia.
I wasn’t about to wade through all that horse hockey - but is Tribe basically saying “everything’s relative” - i.e. the old “living, breathing” crap? If so, again, there’s probably not a whole lot new here except for the fact that Tribe dressed his article up with a lot of physics mumbo-jumbo.
Or is there another way to look at this?
The Tribe material was probably plagiarized.
If Obama was involved, someone ought check if
the original author was allowed to live.
I think the main purpose of the article was to poke a little fun at self-important academics (Tribe) and the sycophants who enjoy being associated with them (0).
I haven’t been around any academics for years and I’m sure there are thousands here who could say the same. One thing is clear — in the 40 years or so since I’ve been away from “the inkwell,” as we used to call it, the amount and degree of ego-flexing that goes on display has gotten way, way out of hand. And 0 fits right in with it.
With a mind as deep as a cookie sheet.
No one else but Tribe would probably be stupid enough to write that garbage.
OK - but the lead-in made it seem that Barry was going to get caught in some pants on the ground situation.
If I wrote an article that said the little green men were here and at the bottom I said Thanks to Scanian for help with editing, you might be mildly embarrassed but in the big scheme of things it wouldn’t be that big of a deal.
"Trial by Mathematics,"
and with the help of OBAMA, wrote another paper on
"Curved Space and Constitutional Law,"
I was an engineering student at NYU in the 1960s and took many coursed in mathematics and physics but I never heard of anything as outlandish as this.
So this was what the Pre Law undergraduates were up to while the Engineering Undergraduates were working on Physics and engineering laboratory work?
GEE WIZ!!! And I thought the were just whacking off the Frisbee?
My gut feeling is that OBAMA was not a good student in either Undergraduate work or in Law School.
There was a comedian whose stage name was DR. Erwin Cory who used to appear on the Johnny Carson and Joey Bishop late night TV Talk shows in the late 1960s to early 1970s. He used to make up stuff like this to the amusement of the audience and host but we all knew it was a joke.
Tribe gets paid as a professor to profess what we used to call (in the politest Bronx) Bull-Crap.
And the current POTUS was his prize student? HOORAH!!!!!
:-)!
LLS
:-)!
LLS
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