Spucatum tauri: When the diversity crusade goes too far

The Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that? Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, is now studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa.

This reminds me of a passage I once read from R.A. Lafferty's book The Fall of Rome:

"There is a term placed on everything, even the world. On the night of August 24 of the year 410 the term was finished. One account states that it was at midnight; but a more trustworthy version states that it was about an hour after dark, and that it had begun to rain. At that time the Salarian Gate of Rome was secretly opened by Gothic slaves in the City. The troops of Alaric entered, and their entry was signaled by a giant trumpet blast such as will never be heard again till the last day.

"And, on the terrible blast of the Gothic Trumpet, the world came to its end. It had endured, in the central core of it that mattered, for eleven hundred and sixty-three years."

Romans once watched with horror as the barbarians neared the gates. Then they turned to realize that the barbarians had been there all along.

(For the unversed, "Spucatum tauri" is the latin phrase for bovine excrement, also known as bullsh*t. It is also the name of a category to which various people, groups, events, etc., will be consigned here when their crimes don't necessarily merit damnation.)