A brief introduction: Last night I attended a lavish Georgetown Law Center reunion gala. I boycotted the previous reunion of my class and would have boycotted this one, but two classmates I hadn’t seen in decades persuaded me to attend. Georgetown being a sort-of Catholic institution there was prayer before the meal, but the cleric involved felt it necessary to lead into the blessing with a long string of dog-whistles to angry progressives, “the resistance,” Democrats and the Trump-Deranged, droning on about “troubled times” and “losing hope” and the need to “navigate the waters of societal division” with kindness, mercy and respect for humanity. I started eating long before she got to amen: another ad for illegal immigration was a good bet to spoil my appetite. Later on, one of my left-wing classmates volunteered the opinion that she was glad that Harvard had stood up to the Evil One. I began listing all of the reasons I have my diploma to that school turned to the wall, and, of course, she was aware of none of them. Why? You know the reason: she only reads and watches the Axis news media, which carefully gives minimum attention to incidents that tend to discredit fellow propagandists and indoctrinaters of the Left…like Harvard. I stumbled across a useful new website last week that highlights embarrassing news and developments regarding Old Ivy, but lost the link. I searched for it using every possible search term, and couldn’t locate it on Google.
Gee, I wonder why…
Sorry for the digression. Back to the topic at hand: here are two bits of damning Harvard news:
1. The Rat Hunter: Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, has been placed on administrative leave after he fired a pellet rifle outside a Brookline, Mass. synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur. He was arrested after police said he fired two shots near Temple Beth Zion. His explanation? He was “hunting rats,” Police say there is no evidence that the incident was related to the synagogue.
The professor was charged in Brookline District Court with illegally discharging a pellet gun, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and malicious damage of personal property. Yeah, this guy sounds like a real credit to the institution.
Two private security guards working at the synagogue confronted him after hearing “two loud shots” and spotting him holding a pellet rifle. When the guards approached Gouvea he set down the gun before a “brief physical struggle” occurred—after all, rat hunting is important!—then Gouvea ran into his nearby home before coming out to be handcuffed and arrested. Officers found a shattered car window and a pellet lodged inside the vehicle, according to the police report.
Wow, that must have been some big rat driving that car…
The now-suspended Harvard visiting professor is an associate professor at the University of São Paulo Law School and leads a Brazilian think tank devoted to social and environmental justice. Of course he does. After all, Harvard doesn’t have enough professors “devoted to social justice,” only almost all of them.
2. LaWhore Vagistan: Over the summer Harvard University hired drag performer Kareem Khubchandani as a new professor. Khubchandani, who lists his pronouns as “they” and “auntie,” will teach a class exploring the significance of the TV show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” in the Studies of Gender and Sexuality program, which is allied with the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus. Professor Khubchandani performs under the name of LaWhore Vagistan (above).
Res ipsa loquitur.
Ethics Alarms 
How does any employer with an ounce of intellect choose a recent Harvard grad over virtually any other college grad when the school allows this to be considered higher education. It sends a signal to employers that the administration is not serious about developing scholarship. The irony is that all these people that would see no issue with it are the same ones that claim Trump U was a fraud.
Maybe I should take the drag course. I’ve never understood the wonderfulness of drag shows. I’ve been excitedly invited to them by two homosexual friends over the years. Mrs. OB and I went to one at Kowloon in Saugus in the ’70s. I turned down an invitation to another in Phoenix in the last decade or so. I’m guessing homosexuals enjoy cross dressing because they want to be the opposite sex? But drag shows are guys dressing as women who make fun of … guys dressing as women? Or they are making fun of women? Or they are insulting normal people who are put off by guys dressing as women? A mystery. An obsession I don’t understand.
Old Bill writes: “But drag shows are guys dressing as women who make fun of … guys dressing as women? Or they are making fun of women?” These multiplying layers of gender switching have a long tradition in theatre!
It’s a staple of Shakespearean plots, for example. In his era, female characters pretending to be men offered a secondary layer of illusion since (as the audience no doubt realized) the actors were men pretending to be women pretending to be men.
Which poses an interesting acting challenge since the actors actually WERE men, but had to present to the audience as NOT actually men but women pretending to be so…. A twist worthy of Knots by R. D. Laing. And also, apparently, of some drag shows 🙂
Japanese kabuki has a similar tradition.
None of which has anything to do with modern day drag shows. Women weren’t allowed on the Elizabethan stage. So what. Standard issue Pride misdirection.
And the theater has long since been hijacked by gay guys. They can have it, what’s left of it.
I’m not sure what to make of the Harvard pellet gun professor. Is he suspect and an embarrassment to Harvard because he’s an active Jew hater or because he’s out hunting cats? Tough call.
Concerning the un-findable website, can you not search through your browser history?
You’d think.I think I first saw it on my cell phone….