What HE said:
Why do radical imams seek to convert young Canadian, British and even American men and women in their late teens and twenties? Because they understand that when you raise a generation in the great wobbling blancmange of Deval Patrick-style cultural relativism – nothing is any better or any worse than anything else; if people are “mean and nasty” to us, it’s only because we didn’t sing enough Barney the Dinosaur songs at them – in such a world a certain percentage of its youth will have a great gaping hole where their sense of identity should be. And into that hole you can pour something fierce and primal and implacable.
Flat out wonderful. It’s our BitsBlog Snark of the Day .
While I have the editor open, I may as well pass along tday’s runner up in the Snark contest… It goes to Brenden Loy, who says:
In other news from the world of academia, it seems that while Larry Summers isn’t welcome to be a dinner speaker at the University of California, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an honored guest at Columbia.
Which in my opinion, reveals all we need to know about the state of academia today.
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