A number of readers have asked me to repost my Academic Insult series, so I’m going to start representing them a couple of times a week. Here’s the first: You have disappointed the universe so much that Adam Smith’s invisible hand of the market only touches you when it is unwashed, abhorrently filthy, and malodorous.
Category Archives: Daily Academic Insult
Academic Insult of the Day- December 15, 2011
I just read your latest book and it made me think of the Voltaire quote about the Holy Roman Empire. He claimed the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. You are neither a scholar, nor an intellectual, nor a writer.
Academic Insult of the Week- November 23, 2011
As Thanksgiving approaches, I’m thankful that you won’t be writing anything during the next few weeks.
Academic Insult of the Week- June 1, 2011
Your latest popular culture book analysis is so terrible that I think you believe that Harry Potter is a follicularly over-stimulated ceramics maker.
Academic Insult of the Week- February 16, 2011.
I, like Maya Angelou, also know Why the Caged Bird Sings. It’s because the bird’s owner lined its cage with your latest book.
Academic Insult of the Day-August 24, 2010
Academic Insult of the Day- August 23, 2010
Yesterday you told me that you were “a major league talent.” If that’s true then you must be the Chicago Cubs.
Academic Insult of the Day- August 22, 2010
You are to academia what Members Only jackets are to fashion.
Academic Insult of the Day- August 21, 2010
You’re such a bad historian that Glenn Beck praised your last book.
Academic Insult of the Day- August 20, 2010
You’re such a poor scholar that when a student asked you about Big Brother you told him that you don’t watch reality television.
