Suck on it, USC!

• [...] The somewhat snotty Kamuf is Peggy Kamuf, "chairwoman of USC's comparative literature department" (ah, USC), and more importantly in this context, "a friend of the Derrida family".  The Derrida family is, of course, the currently green parts of the family tree of the late French philosophy idol, Jacques Derrida, who taught part-time at UCI from 1986 to 2003. [...]

• Also, let us not forget, that Cal beat Stanford for the FIFTH consecutive year. And kudos on the USC comment: if those folks at USC had studied a lot harder they could have gone to UCLA and would have more to look forward to than cheering on their football team. You are a wise man.

• Univerity of Spoiled Children

• Gustavo: I enjoyed your article about Zack particularly since I was a huge RAM fan. What an odd world we live in where a 1/2 white and 1/2 Mexican kid named Zack from the lilly white town of Irvine can so eloquently speak of world angst! I love this country.

• I couldn't agree more. I guess if those folks at USC had studied a lot harder they could have gone to UCLA and would have more to look forward to than cheering on their football team. USC (University of Seventeenth Choice) 1. CalTech 2. Standford 3. UC Berkeley 4. UCLA 5. Claremont . . . 17. USC (

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