When ridiculous liberal political correctness attacks!

So I had class with Prof. Day today... now this man, well, imagine being taught by an alcoholic pagan Jimmy Stewart, a slice of Smallville Americana on acid, and you might understand why I've decided to take two of his courses this semester. Well, he read an article from the major college professors' publication in which a professor writes a list of the expected "proper" behavior for college professors, the rules these people must follow or else be liable for lawsuit. Among the list I can recall:

-No teacher must ever be alone with a student (Day said, and imagine this being said by Jimmy Stewart: "I was just alone with a student a half hour ago, this lovely young lady here came by to give me her cookies!")

-Teachers must record and make copies of every single comment and grade they make for every paper.

-Teachers must adhere strictly to the syllabus as if it were a legal document and to never introduce material that was not explicitly covered in the description of the course (every day he talks with pride about how he's learned more about "Jen-Low" and "Whitney Spears," in his quest to learn about our culture, and these discussions can go on for ten minutes or more)

-Teachers must never use fowl language and must adhere to the guidelines set out in a book called the "Language Police" (the first day of class, Prof. Day asked us what word we should use for fucking, saying that he can't say fucking or he's get in trouble. Based on his suggestions, we settled on "boinking" and "porking.")

-And my favorite, this teacher said that he always removed his wedding ring in class, so as not to create (and I swear this is true) a "hetero-centric environment."

Is it any wonder why I sometimes hate liberals, even though I am one?

Fans of Titus (and obscure 17th-century playwrights) pay heed!

Check this trailer out:

http://216.234.167.190/~dwool/alstuff/rt_trailer.mov

I saw it in London. It's a Titus-esque film of Thomas Middleton's relatively obscure 17th Century play "Revengers Tragedy." Directed by Alex Cox ("Repo Man," "Sid and Nancy"), who sets it in 2021 Liverpool, it stars Christopher Eccelstone (the head soldier boy from "28 Days Later" and I think he was in "Trainspotting" also), Eddie Izzard, and as the evil Duke, Derek Jacobi. In purple lipstick. Awwww, yeah.

There are no plans as yet to release it in the US, but I can get the UK DVD from amazon.co.uk. From what I understand, it's Region 0, which I think means it will work on this side of the pond. And while I'm getting it, I should get Stephen Fry's Harry Potter recordings (yeah yeah, Jim Dale and all, piffle on that, I wanna hear JK's authentic versions).

If I get it, we're havin' us a movie night. My only complaint is that they insert modern dialogue in midst of the actual Middleton. Aw well, it's still fucked-up pre-Shakesperian goodness.