This is the funniest thing I've read in ages. I'm now convinced that Coulter is a parodist of the highest order. Unfortunately she doesn't write at all well, or I might think she was Voltaire reincarnated.
I'd love to list all the things she says that had me laughing to tears (like, "Although they are Druids, liberals masquerade as rationalists..."), I shall content myself with this unsubstantiated and unreferenced claim:
"...Professors are the most cosseted, pussified, subsidized group of people in the U.S. workforce. They have concocted a system to preemptively protect themselves for not doing their jobs, known as "tenure." They make a lot of money, have health plans that would make New York City municipal workers' jaws drop, and work -- at most -- fifteen hours a week."
Do any of y'all know of anyone who fits this description? My salary is lower than any other middle-aged professional I know (except my fellow professors): my friends who chose to work in the real world make approximately three times my salary -- for all 12 months of the year, not my measly 9. My healthcare plan is horrendous: if I can't get it from LSU's med school, I can't get it, but I still have to pay like it's Blue Cross/Blue Shield. If I don't meet my classes, my tenure will be revoked. It might take a year or two, but I will be fired. Incompetent secretaries at LSU, in contrast, just get moved around from department to department. And 15 hours a week? I work 60 on my slowest weeks, and I feel guilty about not doing enough.
I wanna know where I can get me one of these professorial positions Coulter is describing. Are there any where it's warm?
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Actually, the job you want is Anne Coulter's...
For three nights speaking fees at your local college or university she can make more than most academics make in a year.
But who would actually want to trade places with her?
Mr. B.
I'm holding out for a think-tank position myself. THAT's real research, right, Ms. Coulter?
Hate to say it, but she's brilliant. How could someone so apparently stupid earn a wealthy living as a "writer"?
The extremely comfortable living she's gained for herself may not be enviable in any moral sense, but I'd put on an act to have more fun time with my family.
How could someone so apparently stupid earn a wealthy living as a "writer"?
It occurred to me, too, that Coulter must be a supreme parodist. There's no way someone could be that stupid AND such a terrible writer AND still make money. Rush Limbaugh is also of this ilk. No way either of them can be that idiotic and take themselves seriously.
As for what Miss [sic] Coulter called John Edwards last week: she's got a lot of nerve, as a poorly-done FTM tranny. Whoever did her surgery should be hanged from the nearest tree.
Now *I* sound like Ann Coulter, too! Show me the money!
OUCH! Now my jaw is dropping. The 15 hour a week thing really takes the cake. Argh...
2nd anon again,
The more I think about it, she might be brilliant but I doubt it could be a total facade. I think I'm intrigued by what makes something popular, but I don't think anyone could say what she does and live a happy, great-parent-to-your-kids life and not have some serious issues.
She's just twisted.
College professors have it way too easy, huh? As opposed to hacks on wingnut welfare like the whole lot of them, Coulter, Malkin, etc.
The only time I almost smacked my grandfather is when he repeated the 15 hours a week figure... at the time I was adjuncting 5 classes (15 hours a week, right) and finishing my Phd coursework...
Did the prep math for him -- and, since all were new preps that semester, it came out to about 60 hours per week, plus 6 graduate credits...
Then he brought up tenure and I told him the statistics about the number of adjuncts vs. the number of tenured profs...
Grandpa finally learned not to argue with the debate coach/philosophy prof in the family!
Angry Professor,
Why are you getting all worked up about that dessicated corpse that walks like a man? Yes, I said *man*.
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