• February 13, 2012
  • IS NORM COLEMAN DEAD YET? Surprisingly, no! He is alive! And he’s doing the most liberal thing since the French Revolution this fall: being a teaching fellow at Harvard. His course will be called, “How To Litigate A Losing Case For Months, Just For The Fuck Of It.” (This is actually the topic of every corporate law course offered at Harvard.) On a side note, one of Coleman’s fellow fellows at Harvard this fall will be Ms. Peggington Noonington. More on her in a bit… [CNN]

{ 35 comments }

NJB August 21, 2009 at 2:42 pm

And people think Harvard has no sense of humor!

masterdebater August 21, 2009 at 2:42 pm

What other smug, self-centered asshole, might Harvard offer to complete the trifecta?

KilgoreTrout_XL August 21, 2009 at 2:44 pm

[re=392578]masterdebater[/re]: LaRouche?

V572625694 August 21, 2009 at 2:44 pm

[re=392578]masterdebater[/re]: There’re only two smug, self-centered assholes at Harvard now? Somebody hit Cambridge with a neutron bomb or something?

NJB August 21, 2009 at 2:46 pm

[re=392578]masterdebater[/re]: It won’t be Larry Summers.

germansteel August 21, 2009 at 2:48 pm

Gary Coleman doesn’t have any advanced degrees, does he? I sure wouldn’t pay those exhorbitant tuition fees with someone like him on the faculty.

Huh? Norm Coleman? Who’s he?

ohiolobbyist August 21, 2009 at 2:49 pm

Newell, you fucking tease. Are we going to have the semi-regular dressing down of Mme. Noonington we so badly crave?

ManchuCandidate August 21, 2009 at 2:50 pm

Hahvahd takes another step towards being known as the DeVry of the Ivy League.

finallyhappy August 21, 2009 at 2:51 pm

The photo on the right of the person doing the online class at GWU- isn’t that the guy who played Spock and is in Heroes? what was this post about anyway?

SayItWithWookies August 21, 2009 at 2:52 pm

I guess this is Harvard’s way of cutting down on embarrassing racial profiling arrests.

Lionel Hutz Esq. August 21, 2009 at 2:52 pm

Do you remember when Harvard was a prestige University?

Jukesgrrl August 21, 2009 at 2:53 pm

Please warn the ex-Senator that Dame Noonington is not down with his course, as Reagan was against frivolous lawsuits. And he knew enough not to call it tort reform, since that is French and wouldn’t have appealed to True Americans, going about their American business, enjoying their American Mornings.

Mahousu August 21, 2009 at 2:56 pm

[re=392594]ohiolobbyist[/re]: At first I thought you said “… the semi-dressed Mme. Noonington we so badly crave.” It gave me kind of a funny feeling.

uncletravelingmatt August 21, 2009 at 2:59 pm

Brilliant! Now, if they can just get Palin to teach English Comp and Bunning to teach Logic, Hahvahd will truly have no redeeming features.

Crank Tango August 21, 2009 at 3:00 pm

Dead or undead, his teeth will live on long after we have all gone to that great Death Panel in the sky.

Humpback August 21, 2009 at 3:02 pm

Harvard likes to think of itself as an intellectual Hollywood. It attracts celebrity “fellows” to schmooze-seminar, and the $50,000 a year students get to bask for the rest of their lives in enhanced nostalgia.

V572625694 August 21, 2009 at 3:07 pm

[re=392594]ohiolobbyist[/re]: Just went over and read Lady Peggy — not your Vintage Noonan. Just more wingnut talking points about health care. Plus Obama shouldn’t be so “cool.”

Min August 21, 2009 at 3:11 pm

If Coleman has to listen to Fruity Peggles for very long, he’ll wish he was dead.

Monsieur Grumpe August 21, 2009 at 3:13 pm

Norm also plans on growing his hair out again. In the future 9 out of 10 historians will consider this feat to be his greatest achievement.

drrty martini August 21, 2009 at 3:15 pm

If Wonkette is weighing in on Dame Noonington, I will continue to clicky-clicky my refresh button until I find the Friday satisfaction I crave.

El Pinche August 21, 2009 at 3:15 pm

Hey! Norm Coleman. Now there’s guy I really really really don’t give a flying shit about since he stopped wasting tax money on Fleshlights and lawyers.

Uncertainty Vice-Principal August 21, 2009 at 3:17 pm

Maybe he’ll get arrested trying to break into his own Senate seat. Er, old Senate seat.

martinette August 21, 2009 at 3:31 pm

“Harvard University’s Institute of Politics,” harummpphhh. When is somebody gonna do a story on these clown schools? Basically, they’re just dumping grounds for political has-beens, with thier “fellowships” funded by lobbyists. Goddammit.

Decker August 21, 2009 at 3:47 pm

More on her in a bit…

Thou darest not toye so with the Emotions of thy Deare Readers, Sir Newelle!

hockeymom August 21, 2009 at 3:57 pm

Will his wife be joining him? Or just the usual coterie of waitresses and coat-check girls?

gurukalehuru August 21, 2009 at 4:27 pm

A course for the lizard people.

Don Juanquete August 21, 2009 at 4:29 pm

[re=392724]hockeymom[/re]: I think Laurie needs some time off to start repaying Sugar Daddy Nasser Kazeminy for that secret $75,000.

hobospacejunkie August 21, 2009 at 4:39 pm

[re=392591]germansteel[/re]: Gary Coleman no. Gary Cole yes. He knows all about working as a drone for a nameless, faceless corporation. And you wouldn’t want to beat the shit out of him just for being there, like you would with Norm.

Tommmcatt August 21, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Disappointing,

zhubajie August 21, 2009 at 5:37 pm

So how do you get one of these cushy faculty jobs at Harvard? Back when I was looking, I couldn’t get hired by the Community College of the Marshall Islands.

aleks August 21, 2009 at 5:53 pm

[re=392578]masterdebater[/re]: If I said Henry Gates, jr. would I be a racist?

ThickMick August 21, 2009 at 10:51 pm

[re=392677]martinette[/re]: yea, Marinette. the Institute of Politics was actually founded and fully funded as a memorial to President Kennedy back in 1966. Entirely funded by private endowment, not lobbyists, you dumb fuck.

Also, colemen isn’t going to be a teaching Fellow, if CNN or Wonkette, or any of you care to see the actual press release, he’s only going to be there for a week:
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/fellows%20-%20fall%202009%20release%20w%20VFA.pdf

samfish August 23, 2009 at 1:53 am

My thought process basically went like this:
“Norm Coleman? Why do I care if a guy who used to be on Saturday Night Live teaches at Harvard?
. . .
Wait, that was Norm McDonald. Who’s Norm Coleman, then?
Oh, right — he was that douche bag.”

Welp, back to forgetting he ever existed!

Bruno August 23, 2009 at 9:00 pm

Ha ha. Harvard needs more wingnuts to compete with Cornell Law professors

martinette August 24, 2009 at 1:08 am

[re=393094]ThickMick[/re]: Gosh, I’m sorry, I should have said “special interest groups,” not “lobbyists.” I’m sure that mighty endowment of thiers grows turgid only by the purest of financial sources. Does the Kennedy School know that the rest of Harvard laughs behind it’s back? I didn’t think so.

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