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Professor Ludlow Defends His Right to Have Sex With Grad Students

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 31 Comments

If you’re a bald middle-aged guy with an Ivy League Ph.D., academic tenure is basically a license to have sex with college girls:

A Northwestern University professor has filed a Title IX federal lawsuit against school officials for gender discrimination, defamation, and invasion of privacy over their handling of what he insists are false sexual assault accusations.
Two different graduate students have accused Philosophy Professor Peter Ludlow of sexual offenses in recent years.
In February, a Medill School of Journalism student filed a Title IX lawsuit against Northwestern for not taking her seriously when she reported that Ludlow sexually assaulted her in 2012.
Ludlow also lists her as a defendant in his lawsuit, claiming these allegations are “flawed and one-sided,” according to an article in The Daily Northwestern, the school’s official student newspaper.
Ludlow’s suit also shows that the school had investigated him in March after a philosophy graduate student reported that he had had non-consensual sex with her.
He admits that he and the student had a “consensual sexual relationship” from October 2011 to January 2012.

So, Professor Ludlow admits he had sex with one grad student, but she says it was “non-consensual.” And as to the other student’s claims, well, isn’t it horribly unfair to assume that a 55-year-old professor is constantly on the prowl for collegiate poontang?

According to her complaint, the student originally accused Ludlow of getting her drunk, and then kissing and groping her while she blacked out. . . .
The student hoped he would be fired, or at least disciplined. Instead, she claims, Northwestern stood by ineffectually as Ludlow threatened defamation litigation. While she spiraled into depression and attempted suicide, Ludlow continued to work as a tenured professor with full privileges.

From the Daily Northwestern:

[Ludlow] is alleging that the graduate student, along with philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey and director of NU’s Sexual Harassment Prevention Office Joan Slavin, who are also named in the suit, defamed him in statements they made during a third-party investigation into the student’s allegations.
Ludlow said Slavin, Lackey and the student made false claims against him during the investigation. The University hired Patricia C. Bobb, an independent investigator, to look into the graduate student’s claims.
Ludlow’s suit says that Bobb found the claims of non-consensual sex unsubstantiated, but that she did find Ludlow had violated NU’s sexual harassment policy because he had “unequal power“ in his relationship with the graduate student. Ludlow contests this finding from Bobb’s report, according to his lawsuit.
Bobb’s report was then distributed within the University against Ludlow’s wishes, the suit says.

Bottom line: Ludlow says he’s a victim. Despite the “unequal power” clause, Northwestern’s policy doesn’t specifically prohibit professors from having sex with students. Why? Because the whole point of becoming a professor is to have sex with students.

Everybody who knows anything about academia understands this: Graduate students are basically college kids who don’t want to grow up and get a real job. So they stay in school and, while pursuing their advanced degrees, they work as “teaching assistants” and have sex with their students. It’s a piece of cake, because they are “mature” 20-somethings with off-campus apartments, and they’re teaching classes full of freshmen and sophomores who are impressed by talk about “working on my dissertation,” blah blah blah.

Then the grad student finally gets his Ph.D., lands a tenure-track job and just keeps on doing the same thing he was doing as a grad student — teaching classes and screwing students. Every year, there’s a fresh supply of new meat, and by the time he gets tenure, your typical professor has probably been through a dozen affairs with students. The problem is that old habits die hard, and as the professor approaches middle age, his romantic attentions are not usually reciprocated as enthusiastically as when he was a hip, young teaching assistant.

Oh, sure, there are always going to be some naive students who are grateful to have the professor “mentor” them, but by the time a professor is Peter Ludlow’s age, there is an unmistakably creepy aura of desperate lechery about this kind of “mentoring.”

Is it possible that Peter Ludlow is the target of a campus “rape culture” witch hunt fostered by feminists eager to claim a scalp? Sure.

Does this make Peter Ludlow a victim for whom I should have sympathy? No, he’s got a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Fuck him.

Besides which, Peter Ludlow is an Anonymous sympathizer who defended that criminal wackjob Barrett Brown. Fuck him.

 

Category: Education, Sex

Does That Mean That BHO’s Actual Birth Certificate Was An Attachment?

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 32 Comments

by Smitty

For a warmup, via Insty, we have Paul Ryan skewering the smarmy IRS commissioner John Koskinen:
JK is all: “Yeah, yeah, we all know I’m bullet-proof. Get your piece and make room in line and for the next guy. Imma have a second bourbon after this for you, Ryan.”

The kicker is the Joe Crowley chaser (via Breitbart) where he tries to link anyone not buying the IRS line to those who think Obama was born in Kenya:

“Like those who continue to refuse to believe the birth certificate from the state of Hawaii is actually real, conspiracy theorists will continue to rattle sabers,” Crowley said. “But really dose anyone in this room want to be seen in that light.”

Now that the IRS is up to seven (7) [VII] hard drives full of email for employees connected with the case mysteriously deciding to imitate Obamas foreign policy at the same time, anyone stupid enough not to suspect some amount of conspiracy afoot is probably stupid enough to think Sarah Silverman is a nun. New York, go ahead and send Lady Gaga to Congress in place of Crowley. If our Congress is to be a joke, might as well toss in a little song & dance.


And no, this post is not an endorsement of Birtherism. The title is pure sarcasm directed at Crowley. Obama was a dope smoking twerp who grew up in Hawaii, and the IRS is, IMO, guilty of any accusation anyone cares to hurl, until they quit jacking about and deliver the evidence.

Category: Democrats, Scandal

Brett Kimberlin Annoys a Judge

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 22 Comments

It’s been weeks since I’ve paid any attention to Brett Kimberlin’s ridiculous federal lawsuit, the one that my co-defendant John Hoge has described as Kimberlin v. the Universe, et al. The reason for this long silence is that there just hasn’t been any real news in the case. Judge Grimm issued a letter order that put a lid on the extraordinary number of filings made in the case, and the defendants are basically now waiting to learn (a) if Kimberlin’s motion to amend his complaint will be accepted or (b) whether the various motions to dismiss and objections to the amended complaint have sufficed to show that (c) the amended motion is futile and (d) the entire lawsuit should be dismissed. Meanwhile, the case has been handed over to a new judge, George J. Hazel, who has this week received two letters from the Perjuring Pro Se Pipsqueak.

The first letter asks for more time to effect service on several defendants, including Ali Akbar and Breitbart.com, despite the fact that Kimberlin was already granted an additional 60 days on April 28. Now, having failed to effect service for more than six weeks — and with just days remaining until the June 28 deadline — Kimberlin wants to move the goal posts, asking that the court ignore his failure. Instead, Kimberlin wants the court first to rule on his motion to amend and then extend the deadline 60 days past that ruling.

Some of my fellow defendants (or their lawyers) are sure to point out what’s wrong with this: If the court denies the motion to amend — as I hope and expect they will — the suit would then be ripe for dismissal, except for the fact that not all the defendants have been served, some eight months after Kimberlin first filed his complaint. That would be extended to at least 10 months if Kimberlin were granted the delay he now seeks. Those defendants who have already responded to Kimberlin’s suit (including those who have spent money to hire lawyers) can very well argue that such a delay would be unfair to them, leaving them in limbo because of Kimberlin’s failures.

Of course, if the court should grant Kimberlin’s motion to amend, this would re-start the clock for everybody — but I honestly don’t think that’s going to happen, because the arguments made in opposition to the amendment were very strong. Kimberlin’s original suit is so badly flawed, as a matter of law, that it’s a slam-dunk for dismissal, and his proposed amended complaint did not substantially improve the suit, while adding numerous new errors in the process. When these problems were pointed out by the defendants in their opposition motions, Kimberlin’s response was just a lot of arm-waving and a repetition of his claims that the defendants are Very Bad People Who Do Very Bad Things.

Kimberlin’s second letter to Judge Hazel is simply absurd: He invokes the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling rejecting the defendant’s appeal in the case of United States v. Osinger. The irrelevance of this to Kimberlin’s case is obvious to anyone.

Here is a brief summary of Osinger’s crime:

Osinger was prosecuted for cyberstalking under 18 U.S.C. § 2261A. Among the things he did was create a phony Facebook page for his ex-girlfriend and post grossly inappropriate photos. He sent emails to her boss, co-workers and family members about it. And not to be subtle, he sent her about 40 texts over two days to let her know how he was going to destroy her life.

This was a crime, not a civil tort. Neither I nor any of the 20 other defendants in Kimberlin’s suit have violated 18 U.S.C. § 2261A. None of us have been arrested or indicted for violating 18 U.S.C. § 2261A or any other federal criminal statute, and no one is investigating us for such a crime. In writing to Judge Hazel, however, Kimberlin says he alleges that the defendants in his suit have “engaged in . . . criminal conduct that is not protected by the First Amendment.”

And the point is . . . what?

Anybody can allege anything, but the federal government has not appointed Brett Kimberlin to prosecute criminals, and his claims that he has been a victim of felonies by the defendants reminds me of nothing so much as it does an old episode of The Andy Griffith Show in which Gomer Pyle runs around shouting “citizens arrest.”

The law doesn’t work that way. If Brett Kimberlin has been the victim of felonies perpetrated by the defendants — who include Erick Erickson, Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck, among others — where are the indictments? Why isn’t the FBI slapping the cuffs on these alleged Very Bad People Who Do Very Bad Things?

Answer: Because Brett Kimberlin is full of crap.

Is it a federal crime to call somebody “full of crap”? I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t know. Maybe you should hit my tip jar, just in case.





 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Obama’s Jihad-Loving DHS Adviser

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 23 Comments

Add @MohamedElibiary to the list of Obama administration scandals that the Democrat-Media Complex expect us to ignore. Ace of Spades was all over this story last night: “By the way, this ‘senior fellow’ at DHS is a Muslim Brotherhood booster. He called Mohammad Morsi, the now-deposed Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt, Egypt’s Nelson Mandela.” But al-Qaeda just captured Saddam’s old chemical weapons plant in Iraq, so there’s nothing to worry about.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Iraq, Islam, Terrorism

The Media’s President

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 44 Comments

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

Da Tech Guy makes the obvious point: The reason the media aren’t going after the IRS scandal is because Barack Obama is their president. Not since JFK’s fictitious “Camelot” have the media invested so heavily in maintaining the image of a president, an image of competence and success that can be maintained only by ignoring all contrary evidence and pretending that all criticism of Obama is racist — RAAAAACIST!

This is more than just “liberal bias,” it’s outright dishonesty, made easier by the blind partisan hatred of Republicans that has become prevalent among journalists since the Bush era. Reporters and editors were convinced (and remain convinced) that George W. Bush (a) “stole” the 2000 election, and (b) lied about the Iraq war, which all Democrats believe was fought for bad motives — and Democrats outnumber Republicans in the press corps by a factor of at least 5-to-1.

Even if you set aside the usual liberal prejudices about Republicans — that they are greedy, hateful, sexist, racist homophobes who destroy the environment for profit — the Iraq war confirmed in the minds of the press corps what they already believed, that Republicans are dishonest warmongers. Thus, the media believe, it is not only a professional obligation but also a matter of civic duty that journalists do all they can to ensure no Republican is ever elected president again.

Among the multitudinous ramifications of this belief system is the despicable prejudice of James Fallows, a Democrat Party hack of the most shameless sort: “James Fallows of The Atlantic and Media Matters are on a crusade to silence Republicans from ever appearing or have their voices heard in the Media.” Joe Fein was trying to call attention to this problem on Twitter a few days ago, but Joe was so angry about it he couldn’t make his point clearly. I understand: The mere thought of James Fallows should make any honest man angry.

When I was in Mississippi to cover the GOP primary a couple weeks ago, I sat next to Molly Ball of the Atlantic. The association between Fallows and the Atlantic came to mind and I went off on a rant about that despicable fraud. Molly responded by assuring me that James Fallows is a very nice person and, alas, I didn’t have the presence of mind to invoke The Banality of Evil. Of course, the press corps is nowadays so crammed full of despicable frauds that it is perhaps unfair to single out Fallows, except that he has been practicing this fraudulence for so  many years and is in some sense typical of Our Moral Superiors™ — the elite-educated fools whose contempt for the common sense of ordinary Americans is so dangerous because it is entirely unconscious.

Whenever I think of James Fallows, I immediately think of The Vision of the Anointed, a book no liberal has ever read, because if they ever read it, they wouldn’t be liberals anymore. But I digress . . .

The decline of Obama’s approval ratings must disturb Fallows and his comrades among Our Moral Superiors™ — how can the American people be so ungrateful for the presidency that the media have so diligently sold them? Of course, Fallows could answer the question easily, by referencing his belief that the American people are profoundly stupid.

And if all other explanations fail: RAAAAACISM!

 

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats, Media Bias

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.20.14

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Under Pressure: Iraq PM Maliki Faces Both Political, Military Threats

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

Shiite rivals seek to oust him, ISIS jihadis want his head on a stick

Prosecutors Claim Wisconsin Gov. Walker Part Of Criminal Scheme
Yet, no charges filed against Walker or his staff

Rebels Beg Russia For Help As Ukraine Fighting Rages
Ukrainian forces apparently making progress in isolating Slovyansk



POLITICS
California Rep McCarthy Elected House Majority Leader

New Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Tea Party and southern factions shut out of leadership again


John Hickenlooper’s No Good, Somewhat Awkward, Very Bad Day



Administration To Announce More Benefits For Same-Sex Couples

State Department Bars Ugandan Officials For Gay Rights Abuses

House Votes To Sever Funding For NSA Surveillance

Court Overturns LA Ordinance That Prohibits Living In Cars

Supremes Narrowly Limit Business Method Software Patents

Report Claims IRS “Recycled” Lerner’s Hard Drive



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Edges Higher: NYMEX $106.69, Brent $114.91
Shire Tops Flat Euro Shares On Bid Hopes
S&P 500 Ends At Record High As Fed Optimism Lingers
Oracle Sales, Profit Miss Estimates Amid Cloud Transition
Red China Stocks Fall, Heading For Biggest Weekly Loss In Two Months
Wheat Set For First Gain In Six Weeks As Rain Expected To Delay Harvest
Electric Motorcycle Could Jolt Harley-Davidson Shares
Test A Personal Drone Detection System For $500
New, Cheaper iMac Looks Like DIY Nightmare
T-MObile Partners With Rhapsody For UnMusic Radio Service
FCC Fines Phone-Jammer Vendor $34.9 Million



SPORTS
Kiermayer’s Two-Run Dinger Lifts Rays To Victory

Kevin Kiermayer goes yard right before Evan Longoria also bashes a homer

Archer gets 8 K’s in 5-0 shutout

Miami’s Heaney Loses Debut To Mets’ Wheeler

Kazmir Shuts Down Red Sox, A’s Win Again

Ole Miss Knocks Out TCU, Gets CWS Rematch With Virginia


Mauer Carries Twins Past White Sox, 4-2

Howard Has 3 RBI’s As Phillies Extend Streak To Four

Padres Score Four In Seventh To Beat M’s

Gallardo Dominant As Brewers Down Snakes

Black Caps Push Second Test Against West Indies To Fifth Day: 257 For 8 At Stumps

Gavin Floyd Breaks Elbow, Braves Beat Nats 3-0 Anyway



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kelly Rowland Debuts Bare Baby Bump In Cute Yoga Picture

Pretty good shape for a pregnant lady.

Doing boxing and yoga to stay in shape

Box Office Preview: “Jersey Boys” Tanking, “Think Like A Man Too” Topping

The Unspeakable Armenian Discusses Her Priorities

Lady Gaga Scraps Rape-y Video

“Unauthorized Saved By The Bell” TV Movie Heads For Lifetime

Did Justin Bieber Get TWO Women Pregnant?

Kat Von D Death Threats

AMC Picks Up Second Season Of “Better Call Saul”

Zachary Quinto To Guest Star On “Girls”

Ed Sheeran Denies Dating Taylor Swift, Reveals Ten-Year Plan

Marvel Setting Jon Spaihts To Script “Doctor Strange”

Will Rumer Willis Join Sister Scout’s Topless Protest?



FOREIGNERS
Russian State Media Reports 10,000 Refugees From Ukraine Living In Rostov Region
UN Report Says Global Refugee Count Highest Since WWII
Australian Troops Head For Baghdad To Guard Embassy
Felipe VI Sworn In As King Of Spain
Car Bomb In Central Syria Kills 34
Ten Die In Bulgaria Flooding
Burma President Sacks Rakhine State’s Chief Minister, Also Religious Affairs Minister
Pakistan Army Kills 232 Jihadis, Destroys 20 Hideouts
Kurds Emerge As Big Winners From Iraq’s Chaos
Indian Media Highlighting Court’s Remarks On Rape: “A Failure Of Live-In Relationships”



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: Fed-Up Vet Blasts VA’s “Lie, Delay, Deny” Abyss
Twitchy: “Monster Hunter” Author Larry Correia Targeted For Deviating From “Rape Culture” Orthodoxy
American Power: Grim Overcrowding, Filthy Conditions At Illegal Alien Detention Centers In Arizona, Texas
American Thinker: Iraq And The Bloody Price Of Lies
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – The Hydra Protocol
Conservatives4Palin: Send Reinforcements To The Good Guys – #MSSen And #OKSen
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, June 19 and June 20
Jammie Wearing Fools: Bitter Hack Peter King Still Whining About Ted Cruz
Joe For America: Sheriff Joe Doesn’t Take Any BS
Pat Dollard: Seattle Man Faces Six Years In Prison For Trying To Keep Republicans From Voting In 2012
Protein Wisdom: Hayek And You
Shot In The Dark: PRSure
The Jawa Report: Newport NC Store Clerk Loves ISIS
The Lonely Conservative: Illegal Aliens Pouring Across The Border Are Bringing Diseases
This Ain’t Hell: Kyle Carpenter Receives Medal Of Honor
Weasel Zippers: Government Advertised In January For “Escorts” For 65,000 Illegal Alien Children To Be “Resettled”
Megan McArdle: An IRS Conspiracy? Not Likely…Yet


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Category: Live at Five

Democrat 2016 Hopeful Schweitzer Implodes After ‘Gaydar’ Comment

Posted on | June 19, 2014 | 35 Comments

If you were betting on former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer as a 2016 Democrat presidential dark horse, you just lost. Out of a clear blue sky, in a total non sequitur, Schweitzer decided to gay-bait a Republican — and every man in the South while he was at it:

Last week, I called him on the night Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated in his GOP primary. “Don’t hold this against me, but I’m going to blurt it out. How do I say this . . . men in the South, they are a little effeminate,” he offered when I mentioned the stunning news. When I asked him what he meant, he added, “They just have effeminate mannerisms. If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say — and I’m fine with gay people, that’s all right — but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he’s not, I think, so I don’t know. Again, I couldn’t care less. I’m accepting.”

Ed Morrissey points out that Cantor and his wife have been married for 25 years and have three children. As if he hadn’t damaged himself enough by gay-baiting Cantor, however, Schweitzer also decided to call Dianne Feinstein a whore, more or less.

So . . . Martin O’Malley, anyone?

 

Category: Democrats

‘The First Time She Molested Me, I Was Three. The Last Time, I Was Twelve’

Posted on | June 19, 2014 | 56 Comments

Moira Greyland is the daughter of famed novelist Marion Zimmer Bradley, who died in 1999. Greyland’s father — Bradley’s second husband, Walter Breen — was accused of sexually molesting a 12-year-old boy in 1989, ten years after he separated from Bradley, who was accused of covering up her for husband’s pedophile activities. Bradley’s own tendencies toward lesbianism have been noted, but now Moira Greyland has claimed that she was molested by her mother:

The first time she molested me, I was three. The last time, I was twelve, and able to walk away. I put Walter in jail for molesting one boy. I had tried to intervene when I was 13 by telling Mother and Lisa [Waters, Bradley’s personal secretary and reputed lesbian lover], and they just moved him into his own apartment. I had been living partially on couches since I was ten years old because of the out of control drugs, orgies, and constant flow of people in and out of our family ‘home.’ None of this should be news. Walter was a serial rapist with many, many, many victims (I named 22 to the cops) but Marion was far, far worse. She was cruel and violent, as well as completely out of her mind sexually. I am not her only victim, nor were her only victims girls.

Paul St. John Mackintosh discusses the case at TeleRead. Greyland was born in the mid-1960s and, if her parents were part of an “out of control” scene that included drugs and orgies in the 1970s, this would have made them part of the radical counterculture. And what do we know about the content of Bradley’s fiction?

An undercurrent of feminism runs throughout the Darkover series. Bradley frequently examines sex roles and the limitations they place on the individual. . . . Critics have praised Bradley’s ability to incorporate feminist and utopian ideals into the harsh realism of Darkover without diminishing the credibility of the characters or their society.
Bradley’s feminist interests are also evident in . . . The Mists of Avalon (1982). This novel, which retells the Arthurian legend from the viewpoint of the women involved, has received considerable critical attention.

Furthermore, we know that Bradley wrote lesbian pulp fiction under pseudonyms, including I Am a Lesbian (as Lee Chapman, 1962) and The Strange Women (as Miriam Gardner, 1967).

Marion Zimmer Bradley (left) wrote lesbian novels under pseudonyms.

What else do we know about her?

Bradley . . . professed a lifelong interest in the occult and in the early 1980s described herself as “neopagan,” explaining her faith as one that “rejects the Christian belief in man’s dominion over the earth.”
She said she also believed in clairvoyance, extrasensory perception and reincarnation . . .

This is not to say that all neopagan lesbian feminists are bad people. Just saying you can’t blame this one on the heteronormative patriarchy.

(Hat-tip: Commenter “Mm.”)

 

Category: Crime, Feminism, Gays, Sex
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