Your student could be a potential dictator

[robinturner]

Meanwhile, it
has emerged that Saddam Hussein's son Uday spoke with a Yorkshire
accent as a child, picked up from his English teacher, Dinah Bentley.
She tells the Times that Uday was "not a highflyer but he did his
best". - The Guardian

Looks like I'm going to have to keep an eye on those C+ students.

Comments

[oblomova.livejournal.com]

You do realize that the quote fits equally well with George W. Bush, yes?

[solri.livejournal.com]

And to think he probably wants to cut adult literacy projects.

[oblomova.livejournal.com]

Well, his favorite book is the Very Hungry Caterpillar. If that tells you anything.

[solri.livejournal.com]

It says a lot. Bush as caterpillar, world as leaf. But when is he going to turn into a butterfly? Preferably one of the varieties that live for one day, mate, then die. But without the mating part.

[evan.livejournal.com]

Here's an uncomfortable story: watching a story on Iraq with Meena, and a man pops on the screen. She says "that's Saddam's son, he rapes women" and then the announcer says "this is Saddam's son". Apparently (according to her?) he can pick up women and, uh, take them home if he pleases.

(Especially weird is that she defends Saddam as "not that bad", but I think she's mostly worried for her family.)

[solri.livejournal.com]

Uday is just following in his dad's footsteps, except if what you say is right, Uday has to go to the trouble of cruising. Saddam had (maybe still has) henchmen who would roam around looking for suitable females. Apparently he preferred university students.

Reprehensible though it is, I don't see anything unusual here - it's normal behaviour amongst powerful men (it was rife in Stalin's day, for example). In democratic countries they have to be a bit more consensual, but the same idea applies - if you're the alpha male, you feel you have a right to all the females.

[harpersromo.livejournal.com]

The same could be said for Bush Jr., eh? ;-)