The Tuesday Eudemon

Columbia University has standards after all: It fires a professor who leaves an obscene note on another professor's door. Of course, the fired professor has a believable defense. People have mis-characterized his note: Besides, Hyams said, the note he wrote had said "Jack sucks donkey d---" and that's just an industry slang term for a type of electro-voice microphone. That's how I typically hear the diminutive Richard employed.
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Well, isn't this pleasant: A convent in Italy is being shut down after a fight between its last three remaining nuns. The Mother Superior ended up in hospital with scratches to her face after the fight between the sisters of the Santa Clara convent in Bari. It gives the Catholic Church a black eye, so to speak.
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The funniest thing I saw on the Internet this morning: "During her first assault on Hollywood, [Joan] Collins slept with so many men that she was known as the British Open. In later years, she would grandly claim that she was a proto-feminist exploring her sexuality and using her power to bewitch as leverage to get ahead in a man's world. . . .". Harlots, whores, hookers . . . proto-feminists. I think it'll catch on.
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50 Greatest Dystopian Movies of All Time (via Rockwell). "High School Musical" isn't on the list.