Tuesday 7 September 2010

The rotting ivy

Victor Davis Hanson looks at modern academia and what a corrupt, cowardly, vain, impractical, parochial load of freeloaders modern "scholars" have become.

Having done my time in the trenches, I can confirm all of this–with the exception of the chainsaw beheading. That's a new one on me.

2 comments:

jayessell said...

So...
How do you get the
hair, gristle, bone fragments out of a chainsaw?

{Toothbrush? Cut up some wood with the saw afterwards?}

[Would you even return it? Don't you want to maintain control of the evidence of your crime?]

(I'm sure there's a tipping point between buying and renting. It's not as if he's going to make a habit out of dismembering corpses.)

Sergej said...

I think the break-even point is generally considered to be once a week. If you need to dismember corpses less often than that, renting probably makes sense. Otherwise, buy. Of course, I have no idea what's so bad about a good old-fashioned Stanley hand saw and pond full of piranhas, maybe with one of those little bamboo waterfalls and some plants. Decline of craftsmanship, I tell you.

Hm, perhaps it would be best to stop before this blog winds up on some kind of list.