Friday, July 27, 2007
The Tigers of Princeton University
Thanks to a local reader for pointing me toward this photo essay(pdf), a comprehensive collection of the many and various tigers rendered into the buildings of Princeton University.
3 Comments:
By 
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Sat Jul 28, 01:31:00 PM:
"Thanks to a local reader-"
Hey, does that make the rest of us "distant" readers? Boy, that really hurts. :(
Well, if yin and yang are the tussle here, I'm going with yang.
I mean, let's face it. Tigers are only remorseless killing machines when they get OFF of their fat, lazy asses as they're driven by hunger to actually go out there and work for a living!
Birds of prey, on the other hand, are pretty-much badass 24 hours a day.
TH, I'm still feeling hurt that I'm a mere "distant" reader, just so you know. The pain hasn't diminished with time, as I'd hoped.
In other news, while articles on the impending financial ruination of civilization, French bicycle races taking place in Britain and pictures of a bunch of lazy, lie-in-the-sun carnivores are all fine and dandy, I'd like to hear what TH has to say on the current debate as to whether or not the 'Pubs should subject themselves to a CNN/YouTube attack.
Excuse me, I meant "debate".
Personally, I think it's going to be a disaster. It's going to provide the Left with dozens of little mini-clips that'll portray the candidates as waffling, bumbling, disingenuous fools. I left my comment on the matter on Michelle's site this morning, although I think it was something like Comment #15,367 so it probably got lost in the shuffle. I've preserved it here.
The gang on Hugh Hewitt's site at Townhall are debating it, as are Michelle and Bryan at HotAir.
The general argument in favor of them doing it is that they "have to do it" (they don't -- come election time, no one will give a good goddamn who participated in what debate) and that, should they field a biased question, that they point it out to the CNN moderator and demand it be phrased in an unbiased way, or refuse to answer it altogether.
While this looks great on paper, the reality is that they'll hedge and waffle and hem and haw and look guilty as they try to figure out a way to dodge the ambush, and there are your dozens of mini-clips circulating all over hell and gone for the next year and a half.
"Did you hear? Rudy Giuliani wants those sweet polar bears to die! Yeah, I saw it on the Internet!"
"How horrible! My husband was going to vote for him, but he sure isn't going to now -- if he knows what's good for him!"
And, of course, afterward CNN gets to throw up its hands and say, "Hey, WE didn't ask those awful, biased questions -- it was America asking!"
And, to a mainstream America that really doesn't understand these things, that'll make perfect sense. The questions were, after all, taken from YouTube, right? Therefore it was an honest sampling of what Americans really care about.
It's a point that's hard to argue.
So, TH, you have any thoughts on the matter?
Doc
By 
John J. Coupal, at
Sat Jul 28, 04:22:00 PM:
The only tigers on the Princeton campus are those in stone.
The only felines on campus now are flesh and blood pussies, of both genders. But, they are well educated.
By , at
Sat Jul 28, 10:28:00 PM:
And in DISNEYS version of THE JUNGLE BOOK how MOWGLI got rid of SHIRE KHAN with the help of the vultures he tied the flaming branch to his tail and SHIRE KHAN was afraid of fire
