The Ivy League Professor charged with the Alabama shootings incident is not unfamiliar with firing guns according to the Boston Globe
The University of Alabama biology professor accused of opening fire and killing three colleagues at a faculty meeting Friday shot and killed her teenage brother more than two decades ago in Massachusetts, according to authorities
Another interesting little factoid…the local DA involved in the Massachusetts incident was Bill Delahunt, now in the US House of Representatives and a cousin of Robert Delahunt who was Andrew Sullivan’s lawyer when it was decided not to bring Sullivan to court on a drugs charge, much to the annoyance of the judge.
If you have a brush with the law then Massachusetts seems a great place to be…..for certain people. I wonder, however, if the same would apply if your name was Palin – or Bush…
Meanwhile, over in San Francisco, Sherlock Holmes is alive and well and posting from The Chronicle’s SFGate blog and he thinks he might have cracked the case – it’s those pesky ignorant rednecks at southern universities who just hate anything intellectual….they could have provoked her with their country music and confederate flags…
But what’s clear to this blogger is there’s a weird “Southern” issue with a “Harvard-trained” professor. The Alabama media stuck that tag as if to imply it had something to do with her alleged shooting of the three faculty members.
But the reference may be a clue to another problem: Dr. Bishop may have experienced a kind of anti-intellectual prejudice from the University of Alabama-Huntsville culture that could have just driven Bishop batty. A “You think you’re better than us because you’re from Harvard” attitude that may very well have blocked her from fair consideration by her peers.
I think there’s something there worth investigating. This is not to excuse the action of murder, but an honest, cold, read of the situation with the current available information would lead a reasonable person to think Bishop was being discriminated against in the way I described. What’s the point of mentioning that she’s “Harvard-trained”?
If this happened at U.C. Berkeley (God forbid), no media outlet would mention that Bishop was “Harvard-trained”, yet a ton of Berkeley faculty and instructors are. Something’s wrong here.
Plus there was possibly not only a money angle but those rednecks were maybe trying to steal her ideas – no wonder she got angry.
Of course it might have been better to have rung Andrew Sullivan and ask him if he could recommend a good lawyer….
One thing is clear – headlining an incident as “Harvard-trained professor charged with murder” is so unfair because it’s obviously right wing code for “liberal Democrat”… after all nobody mentioned in a recent case that the guy was a Tea Partier and Palin supporter…
she killed a black guy, an indian and a hispanic, yep… it was all the fault of white racist men? Get real
Well, jus kiss ma grits!
Millions of people face provocation on a daily basis and never shoot either their brothers or their co-workers. The professor is just plain nuts! I don’t know why she got away with murder the first time but it led to this!
Do you know anything about Huntsville or the University of Alabama at Huntsville? It is located near Redstone Arsenal, and Huntsville is loaded with PhD’s from all over the world. Maybe you should do some research?
Well, if she was acting on her NE Intellectual Roots, wouldn’t she have been SUING, instead ?
Shooting up a place with guns, that’s a rather stereotypical Southern Redneck response.
So it looks like your argument fails immediately. . . for sheer lack of sense and logic. . .
Methinks the psycho beech killed only because of her own selfish, jealous desires
when her little queendom world is threatened.
Suspect she shot her brother in similar mindset and this is the result now of her going unpunished for that crime. She’s a psychotic, twisted homicidal freak not able to deal with reality.
The comment from the SF Gate blog is truly one of the stupidest and most idiotic comments I have ever heard in all of my nearly 57 years. This “pseudosophistication” is absolutely that, and displays the utter lack of a brain and critical thinking abilities.
she killed a black guy, an indian and a hispanic, yep… it was all the fault of white racist men? Get real
she killed a black guy, an indian and a hispanic, yep… it was all the fault of white racist men? Get real
Well, if she was acting on her NE Intellectual Roots, wouldn’t she have been SUING, instead ?
Shooting up a place with guns, that’s a rather stereotypical Southern Redneck response.
So it looks like your argument fails immediately. . . for sheer lack of sense and logic. . .
Well, jus kiss ma grits!
Millions of people face provocation on a daily basis and never shoot either their brothers or their co-workers. The professor is just plain nuts! I don’t know why she got away with murder the first time but it led to this!
The comment from the SF Gate blog is truly one of the stupidest and most idiotic comments I have ever heard in all of my nearly 57 years. This “pseudosophistication” is absolutely that, and displays the utter lack of a brain and critical thinking abilities.