Posted on 07/07/2008 6:01:42 AM PDT by paterfamilias
Remember Idris Leppla?
You may recall about 6 months ago, Barnard Senior Idris Leppla became an internet celebrity after the publication of her incoherent diatribe in The Columbia Spectator entitled The Truth About The Academies. You can access this article and some of her other Spectator articles at this link.
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/25716
Well, it seems that the field for Fullbright Scholarships must have been a bit thin this year, since Ms. Leppla has been awarded a Fullbright to study heroin addiction and prescription drug addiction in France. Judging from the clarity of her writings, this may be an autobiographical work. And to make it even more humorous, " After her Fulbright year, Idris plans to pursue a joint degree in medicine and public health."
http://www.barnard.edu/newnews/news042208.html
I can say that she will be the perfect Ivy League public health policy wonk-doc: caring for the masses while not actually caring for a patient, making policy for the good of populations without concern about the effect on individuals, travelling the world on grants, and doing it all by nursing on the public mamma.
Good job, Idris! May all you policy statements and reports have the same thoughtful clarity and ironic absurdity of your Spectator articles!
"When I reminded the lieutenant that he had signed that oath after he had been yelled at all day and that his hair had just been shaven off during his first day there, he comforted me that John was not at all forced to sign the oath.[...] The reality of sending my brother to the Naval Academy began to set in: this was not a school; this was the military."
What part of "Naval Acedemy" did not give them a clue that this was the military... and OMIGODNO~!! THEY SHAVED HIS HEAD???? How ignorant do you have to be to not know they will do this?
Sis and mum gave up trying to get baby brother "out of there" after he decided he LIKED IT THERE (I imagine going home to such idiocy after a short exposure to intelligence and structure must have helped convince him too)
When they talked of courage and bravery, they showed a video of a Navy marine rounding off an unlimited supply of ammunition.
. . . in that boy's shoes, I would have joined the French Foreign Legion to get away from these stupid females, if that was all that was available.
She is also from San Francisco so it’s easy to see how her and her mommy ended up so ignorant.
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