Solo -- by "private sector counterparts" I assume you mean TEACHERS in private elementary or secondary schools? Because if you mean people with your degrees who work in fields other than teaching, it's apples and oranges.

I'm a conservative teacher. I hate being forced to be part of the union, and watching my money go towards electing candidates I don't vote for. However, as a 25-year calculus and physics teacher, I can tell you I get paid far less than my private sector counterparts with the same degrees I have. I'd appreciate it I could read just one op ed piece that didn't try to paint all teachers as 'greedy liberal rent seekers' with the same broad brush of ignorance. there are a LOT of conservative teachers who are tired of being insulted.

One small, but forgiveable error...In the Prague Spring the cries were not "Dubcek! Dubcek!", but rather "Dubcek, Svo-bo-da! Dubcek, Svo-bo-da!" However this oversight is more than offset by the totally hilarious "sheep-dip year at Occidental". Way too funny--no?

As an officer from a local union representing workers in a mining/manufacturing facility in the mid-west, my opposition to the public unions may be surprising. I'm always amused to see so many ignore actual constitutional rights while claiming fictional ones.
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Alright, calling Democrats "communists" goes too far and is the epitome of what William Buckley characterized as "intellectual sloth" on the Right. NRO should not have published this over the top article.

Nice article man! *thumbs up*

Your words are vivid red hot pokers in the side of the "easily annoyed left".

Being an elder sibling, I thank you for bringing back my memories sarcasms past.

David, thank you for the satire and the sarcasm. Revanchism is sweet.

Another liberal dirty word: nativism (but not real natives).

Great, David.

And please keep the 'obscure' references coming. A little relevant history is good for us.

Protest is a beautiful thing.... unless my team is in charge. Then you need to do what your told or we'll put you in the database.

Hee hee! Yes, some praise writers who wield their wit like scalpels, deftly thrusting and slicing to wound their opponents.

But I much prefer the Kahane Method. He uses sarcasm like it was a meat cleaver, and irony like a 25-pound war hammer, hacking the usual liberal suspects into unrecognizable chunks, and crushing purveyors of leftist dogma into a great shaking mass of fail jelly. My kinda guy.

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The greed of the public employee knows no bounds.

Never heard or read anything by Mr. Kahane before; but this was highly entertaining and as the first commenter observed, "spot on".

This is totally hilarious and spot on. To make it easier to research those "obscure references" I highly recommend using the Chrome browser. One only needs to click on the unknown word and voila..there is the reference defined.

To Mr. "Kahane" thanks for the link to your book. It is now on my Kindle thanks to Amazon's Whispernet. Very much looking forward to being entertained.

The man's a genius.

So, if you're too young to remember, look up "Prague Spring", and please, no more comments about "obscure references". Sue your high school history department instead.

I didn't find that many "obscure" references. Did I miss something? Or I am too well read? Thought the article was funny, though.

Exquisitely funny. And True.

Exquisitely funny.

Lol! David Kahane, you is crazy. :)

I don't know. I think of reading one of Kahane's pieces as either proof that I am well-read or proof that I need to read more.

Much like reading WFB's pieces in years past - Kahane makes me want to find out what the references mean, and that is sometimes work.

I like these Kahane pieces quite a bit - and I'm always able to get the overall gist of them - but the obscure references have me feeling like I need to fire up Wikepedia a dozen or so times in order to understand every last obscure reference. It's a sort of Victor Davis Hanson type of thing (and I also like VDH).

This particular article seemed to set the record for obscure references, and I hope there will be less of them in future writings.

Is Lebowski a college drop out like Gov, Walker? I can' remember

David,

Have you ever noticed that academic radicalism never come from the hard science or engineering departments? Here is why, an Engineer of Math major will recognize this equation:

dy/dt= -y ( γ-δx)

dx/dt = x( α-βy)

Where, y is the number of some predator (for example, Welfare recipients, and Public service employees, prisoners, etc. .);
x is the number of its prey (for example, tax payers, the rich, businesses, etc. .); and
dy/dt and dx/dt represent the growth of the two populations against time;

It is called the Lotka–Volterra equation and it describes the relationship of the numbers of parasites to the number of hosts in a closed system. There are no equations to predict the numbers in an open system wherein the host can make a few phone calls, put his McMansion up for sale and move to Arizona or Texas, to escape the parasites, and take his capital, business acumen and his plant and equipment with him. This number will be determined empirically by watching the collapse of the progressive upper Mid-West in the next two years.

To the two goof “students” who were interviewed in Madison over the weekend, this requires an understanding of calculus (no Che posters here boys, just Newton and Leibnitz) but I imagine you boys would look at the integral like a savage looking at the flame produced by the phosphorous tipped match because your “teachers” are more concerned with radicalizing you than educating you.

Now here is the challenge for the social scientists and historiographers. What happens in the coming sectionalist crisis wherein all of the manufacturing, capital, and the educated productive evangelical Christian population (Black, White, and various shades of Brown - and all Republican) live in a belt stretching from Florida to Texas and includes the Mountain West and the Lower Mid-West?

But what do I know? I studied engineering in Utah and not “womyns” studies at Columbia.

Mr. Kahane's point seems to be "I'm smarter than you - try to follow my obscure references", rather than "here's something you might find interesting".

"I guess what I’m trying to say is: Stop it. You’re scaring us."

Kahane, You Magnificent "Son of a Che", I read your book.

Somewhere, I read this description about life under communism:
When a worker prepares a field for planting, he only plows to the proper depth around the outer edges, and then he lifts the plow breaking only the surface for the rest. This way the field appears correctly plowed and saves the worker time and effort. The worker knows if a party boss should check his work, he would only check the outer portion where he had plowed correctly.
Well, with the adorable moppet’s quote, “trying to stop whatever this dude is doing” we have discovered the inner field of public education.

To show solidarity with the forces of good, eat a lot of cheese.

ROFLMAO Couldn't have put it better myself. And how about that great NRO shot of that gaper woman in Madtown blacking out on (fill in the blank)... Thank you!!

David,

Have you ever noticed that academic radicalism never come from the hard science or engineering departments? Here is why;

dy/dt= -y ( γ-δx)

dx/dt = x( α-βy)

Where, y is the number of some predator (for example, Welfare recipients, and Public service employees, prisoners, etc. .);
x is the number of its prey (for example, tax payers, the rich, businesses, etc. .); and
dy/dt and dx/dt represent the growth of the two populations against time;

It is called the Lotka–Volterra equation and it describes the relationship of the numbers of parasites to the number of hosts in a closed system. There are no equations to predict the numbers in an open system wherein the host can make a few phone calls, put his McMansion up for sale and move to Arizona or Texas, to escape the parasites, and take his capital, business acumen and his plant and equipment with him. This number will be determined empirically by watching the collapse of the progressive upper Mid-West in the next two years.

Now here is the challenge for the social scientists and historiographers. What happens in the coming sectionalist crisis wherein all of the manufacturing, capital, and the educated productive evangelical Christian population (Black, White, and various shades of Brown - and all Republican) live in a belt stretching from Florida to Texas and includes the Mountain West and the Lower Mid-West?

But what do I know? I studied engineering in Utah and not “womyns” studies at Columbia.

The Liberal mind is a scary thing. We have to jettison reason in order to enjoin this nutty debate. I love this article, you have exposed the irrational Left for what they are.