Comments on: This Week on Free Will: Michael Berube

By: play online games

play online games — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:32:26 +0000

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By: Alex K

Alex K — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:38:02 +0000

My politically apathetic friends superstitiously blamed me for Penn State's lost this tragic weekend. Their logic: Obama had won the election just a few short days before and something had to give; my week was going too well. I refuse to take responsibility, as convincing as this argument seems.

By the way, one of my favorite recent bloggingheads. Good job.

By: Greg N.

Greg N. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:41:32 +0000

As much as I love JoePa and respect Penn State's football tradition, I'd like to thank the Iowa Hawkeyes for giving my beloved Florida Gators the opportunity to win a second national championship in three years.

But here's to JoePa winning out and beating that fraud Bobby Bowden for the most wins in D1 football.

By: Michael Berube

Michael Berube — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:59:10 +0000

Oh, it gets better. JoePa is Old School in the best sense: four years of Latin at a Jesuit high school (like me), followed by a B.A. in Classics at Brown and an M.A. in American literature. He still claims Virgil as his favorite poet, and when I asked him about this some years ago, he replied, “yeah, Virgil — he's one of ours.” Meaning, of course, Italians. So, anyway, he endowed my chair and a position in the library. Which is way cooler than, say, the Bobby Knight Thrown Chair in Advanced Anger Management.

By: Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:03:13 +0000

Michael, Aren't you the Paterno Professor? Does your school really have endowed chairs named after football coaches? Tonight I will dream of the inestimable glory of becoming the Hayden Fry Professor of Mental Philosophy.

By: Michael Berube

Michael Berube — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:38:45 +0000

A couple days after our chat, the unranked Iowa Hawkeyes defeated the 3rd-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions by a score of 24-23. This strikes me as important.

More than important -- world-historical. Game-changing. Now we have to have this diavlog all over again, this time to take into consideration the question of whether going to college is liberalizing if you're going with the wind or into it. You go first, Will, and I'll defend this end.

Seriously, thanks again for a fun discussion. And congratulate those Hawkeyes for destroying our season and crushing JoePa's hopes for one more run at a national title.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:00:37 +0000

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Um, sorry, I still haven't processed the loss yet. Carry on).