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About Fenster

Gainfully employed for thirty years, including as one of those high paid college administrators faculty complain about. Earned Ph.D. late in life and converted to the faculty side. Those damn administrators are ruining everything.

Elsewheres

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Mandatory paternity leave? Who needs government meddling in private life when in our free enterprise system we can leave it to the private sector? Rod Dreher passes along a Kav Kartoon, with disapproval. Now Ted Kennedy.  A man’s … Continue reading →

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Tweet Curation

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Selected with care by your correspondent. Don’t know (((Murshak))) but it is a nice quote worth keeping handy. https://twitter.com/amurshak/status/1002326086196310017 hbdchick was mysteriously dumped from twitter and just as mysteriously allowed back in.  Go figure. i'm baa-aack! 🥳🥳🥳 thank … Continue reading →

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Gee Officer Krupke . . .

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Fenster

Fenster writes: While trying to remember the last words to that song I had this unrelated memory.

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Elsewheres

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Montaigne is appreciated around in these parts– the patron saint of Uncouth Reflections.  See here, here and here. Fenster especially appreciates Montaigne’s discursive style, which seems to come natch’l to him but which he nonetheless is not loath … Continue reading →

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You Read it Here First!

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Steve Sailer has reviewed Heather MacDonald’s new book The Diversity Delusion, which deals with the kudzu-like growth of college administrative staff devoted to promoting the creed of diversity and enforcing its many unforgiving norms. MacDonald is an exemplary … Continue reading →

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Poor Little Rich Kids?

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Fenster

Fenster writes: In the current American Conservative online Charles F. McElwee III describes the plight of the upper-middle class in America, this group defined as having family incomes between $75,000  and $200,000 a year.  I know this group from experience.  … Continue reading →

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Who are Those . . . Guys?

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Fenster

Fenster writes: When CBS gives $20M to #metoo who do they give it to? I don’t think the original organization founded by Tarana Burke is a 501(c)(3). It was founded in 2006 and ought to have an IRS form 990 … Continue reading →

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Two Aretha Videos

Posted on August 18, 2018 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Like a lot of people, I expect, I first heard Aretha Franklin’s voice when I first heard the song Respect.  And like a lot of people, I expect, the first hearing of that song was one of the … Continue reading →

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More Globe Watch

Posted on August 18, 2018 by Fenster

Fenster writes: This is a continuation of the Globe Watch I undertook yesterday. The idea behind that post: yes we have a free press in this country, and rightly so, but nothing confers on the press some special virtue by … Continue reading →

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Globe Watch

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Fenster

Fenster writes: My hometown paper, the Boston Globe, took the lead in the recent cooperative effort on the part of hundreds of papers nationwide to run editorials slamming Trump for his comments about the press. I think the Globe can … Continue reading →

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