tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post7672875913338656801..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: Kingsolver's rant in the rain: Duke can do betterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-28308454499843273382008-05-22T14:38:00.000-04:002008-05-22T14:38:00.000-04:00As a Duke parent who stood in the rain to support ...As a Duke parent who stood in the rain to support her daughter, I heartily concur with your post.<BR/><BR/>I knew it was downhill when she began talking about hiding behind the barn because her 11 year old daughter made fun of what she was wearing. I kept wishing she would go behind a barn at that moment.<BR/><BR/>The ceremonies couldn't be moved because there is no one venue large enough for the 6,000 graduates and their families. However, there were many empty seats that day.<BR/><BR/>My daughter and her friends heard the speech and they thought it was utterly boring, stupid and irrelevant. Don't use fossil fuel has become a punchline.<BR/><BR/>Hopefully, all of this (the LAX scandal, etc.) will not devalue the diploma which cost $160K for 4 years!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-78938635600440366732008-05-22T08:15:00.000-04:002008-05-22T08:15:00.000-04:00What you probably will not see is someone writing ...What you probably will not see is someone writing a guest column for the Capus Echo (NCCU newspaper), implying that the Duke graduates degrees are somehow tainted because of this speaker or the vast cosortium of conspirators within Duke faculty and administration that were doing their best to frame and defame the Lacrosse players. Or that a degree from an area of study dominated by faculty such as the infamous group of 88 is somehow not earned or maybe not worth the paper it is printed on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-91943279968273276952008-05-21T23:04:00.000-04:002008-05-21T23:04:00.000-04:00I was interested (well, there wasn't anything much...I was interested (well, there wasn't anything much else to do...) to note that Duke chose two advocates of subsistence farming as worthy bestowees of honorary degrees: Kingsolver and Wendell Berry.<BR/><BR/>Shortly later it became clear Kingsolver is a proponent not just of subsistence farming, but of only buying locally grown food. Thus, her solutions to the great goblin of global warming require the death of more than half the world's population.<BR/><BR/>Everything will be all right, then.<BR/><BR/>(There can be no greater love than that of a father standing in the cold rain, enduring an endless Kingsolver solution to an imperfect world's progress, as he waited to see his daughter through her commencement.<BR/><BR/>At least the kids couldn't hear her, what with the morning's rain bouncing off their umbrellas.)Greg Toombshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08093911019916154110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-43968796519399920392008-05-21T22:49:00.000-04:002008-05-21T22:49:00.000-04:00Jack in SS-Only conservatives know enough to come ...Jack in SS-<BR/><BR/>Only conservatives know enough to come in out of the rain.Greg Toombshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08093911019916154110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-84063788900781088462008-05-21T19:47:00.000-04:002008-05-21T19:47:00.000-04:00John -Why didn't Duke move the ceremonies inside? ...John -<BR/><BR/>Why didn't Duke move the ceremonies inside? <BR/><BR/>Jack in Silver SpringAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-50179421640593130222008-05-21T12:08:00.000-04:002008-05-21T12:08:00.000-04:00No one I know was surprised Kingsolver was chosen ...No one I know was surprised Kingsolver was chosen to speak at Duke. The faculty and administration are in lockstep Marxism in my opinion. <BR/><BR/>Socialists use Kingsolver’s writings for their propaganda source. Check out this site- www.socialistaction.org. After you read the Communist Manifesto, you can move on to Kingsolver’s book. <BR/>-----------------<BR/>(From site)<BR/>Youth for Socialist Action<BR/><BR/>For a basic introduction to socialist politics we recommend checking out our Socialism reading list .... Homeland by Barbara Kingsolver….<BR/><BR/>For a more detailed study of revolutionary politics, we recommend Socialist Action’s Marxist Theory page.<BR/>--------<BR/>This is no secret, the radical Gang of 88 are still in control of Duke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com