An Irish Wake
It's been a tragic day at UC Santa Cruz.
Denice Dee Denton, chancellor of the University of California-Santa Cruz, apparently jumped to her death Saturday morning from the 44th floor of a San Francisco building...Suicide is a horrible thing, something I wouldn't wish on even my worst enemy. The loss of hope and the surrender to despair are terrible burdens you shouldn't leave this world carrying when you meet The Almighty.
...where she shared an apartment with her [lesbian lover].Oh, well, He probably isn't going to take too kindly to that either. But now is not the time to judge, recently departed as she is. And after all, she must have been...
Denton was well-known for her efforts to advance women in science, engineering and higher education, and had won numerous awards for her achievements....Right, she seems to have had some accomplishment in life. Must have worked hard and persevered...
Having battled gender bias herself, she spent her career trying to pave the way for other women and was not afraid to make waves when necessary.Well, come on, that's not very nice. It makes it sound like she was a whiner who cried her way to the top. Is that really necessary on the day...?
She was cheered by women around the world last year when she confronted Harvard President Larry Summers at a private symposium when he questioned women's aptitude in science and math.Oh. That was her, was it? Didn't I hear...?
But the accolades were overshadowed by controversy throughout her tenure at UC Santa Cruz. UC's hiring of [her lesbian lover, Gretchen Kalonji] came under attack almost immediately, and questions were raised about Denton's compensation and renovations to the chancellor's home on campus. She also had some run-ins with students and labor unions.Yah, I remember now.
UC officials struggled Saturday to understand what was behind her death.Hmmn. Could have been the lifelong struggle with being a sexual deviant. Or the pent-up rage from (probably) 'feeling victimized as a second-class citizen in a man's world'. Or the constant pressure to impose her warped, self-hating ideology on America. Or the confusing contradiction of forcing a reasonably honest "fellow traveller" to kow-tow to the liberal thought-police. Or the suppressed guilt of violating all sorts of ethical standards by landing her lover a lucrative job through blatant patronage, and stealing money from her employer disguised as infrastructure improvements.
Or, through it all, it could have been because she was really, really ugly.
But despite all these possibilities, I think it most likely "what was behind her death" was either: A) the fall, or B) the sudden impact.
But I only bring it up because our MSM friends at the Mercury News mentioned that you were wondering about it. We wouldn't want to speak ill of the dead here. So I'll part with this sentiment:
"May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead."
