Crusty prof at noise dude alma mater thinks today's youth are horrible

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Jon or whoever, please tell me you never took a class from this guy.

Recently I called the wife of a national pollster "ma'am"; she reacted like Dracula at the sign of the cross.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Shouldn't that title be on the current Henry Rollins thread over at ILM?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

wasn't there already a Me Generation...but this is Generation Me? Or should it be Generation I?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Former speechwriter for George Bush writes article in conservative magazine badmouthing today's youth Shocker!

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

No, but I had a friend file a complaint because an economics professor tried to convert her to christianity.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Awesome.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Is that within his remit?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

"God WANTS you to pass this class."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

i actually had the misfortune of taking a class w/this guy. "presidential rhetoric". spent about 1/2 of the semester watching videos about how great reagan was. even more of a douche than that article would lead one to believe. if i remember correctly, he was the go-to haircut for political 'commentary' on one of the local ROC city TV affiliates

but yeah, totally worthless

― bangelo (bangelo), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

spent about 1/2 of the semester watching videos about how great reagan was.

In an English class? What was the putative subject of the course?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

crusty long-haired goth reads national review online all day instead of working

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Like I actually work. I only meditate.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

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well, it was allegedly supposed to be a class on presidential rhetoric/speechwriting/etc (no doubt made possible by dude's ex-bushie-speechwriter status, and IIRC he may have had some position w/in the reagan admin as well?), but essentially turned into a self-love/right-wing beatoff party. i guess it may have been crosslisted under poli sci, i dunno

― bangelo (bangelo), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Lead sentence:

The 1960 musical Bye Bye Birdie yelped "Kids! What's the matter with kids today?" Back then not much, as a matter of fact. A lot, evidence suggests, nowadays.

Right there you know that the "evidence" is going to be a hodgepodge of personal experiences, impressions gathered from books and television, with perhaps an added smidgeon of overheard anecdotes and urban legends - necessarily narrow to begin with and narrowed even further by careful selection to fit the author's bias. Why should I waste my time, just to confirm that Curt has shit-for-brains and doesn't even know it?

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

damn kids and their skateboards

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

"The Olympics once represented the best of America's best man- and maidenhood."

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Why hasn't rampant unfettered capitalism somehow remedied this situation? How long will it take the adult world's laissez faire principles to defeat the deplorable self-centered attitude of today's youth?

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

So is this Curt Smith the same guy behind all these baseball books I'm seeing on amazon.com?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mattscdsingles.com/acatalog/curt%20smith%20words.jpg

― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Curt Smith has been a speechwriter for President George Bush. He is the author of eleven books and is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Rochester.

― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Everybody really does want to rule the world.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Each etched deference, teamwork, and stoic heroism — we, not me.

That sounds sorta like commietalk!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Tom Brokaw deemed the adults of World War II "the greatest generation."

Question that's been on my mind for a while: DOES THAT INCLUDE HITLER???

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

you know, i wanted to groan at first, but that's actually pretty funny!

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

when you swing at everything, sooner or later you get to first base

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

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