Mixed up Trinity

The Philosophical Society at Trinity College Dublin was scheduled to have Gena Lee Nolin, the Baywatch star, as a speaker. Apparently, some of the tiresome crowd were very, very upset. You know the type, who equate dressing badly with being smart. The Irish Independent (registration required) reports:

BREASTS have had to give way to brains after protesters forced a college philosophy society to scrap plans for a statuesque beauty to address a meeting.
Out went TV’s ‘Baywatch’ babe Gena Lee Nolin, and in came award-winning journalist and best-selling author Naomi Klein in a move which, it is claimed, will please the “more hardened feminists” within Trinity College Dublin.

The university’s Philosophical Society had planned to have Ms Nolin (32) address the society this month. Instead, Ms Klein, a syndicated newspaper columnist and author of best-seller ‘No Logo’ will address the society on May 4.

The plan to feature Ms Nolin backfired as posters announcing her visit were defaced with references to “Neanderthals in Trinity”, “dumbing down” and “High brow to low brow”. The protests were described as “kind of pathetic” by society honorary secretary Pat Cosgrave who claimed some objectors saw Trinity as a bastion of intellectual brilliance.

“Kind of pathetic” does not begin to describe it. Naomi Klein as a replacement? The silly self-absorbed woman who has no problem condemning poor countries to even greater poverty so long as it makes her feel good about herself, whom lefty Brad DeLong has described as an utterly ignorant fascist. Where do the Independent or the folks at Trinity get the idea that Nolin is beauty and Klein is brains. Nolin is not remotely in Klein’s league for frivolous self-regard.