- I will join the chorus in praising Bérubé's essay on academic freedom. It's excellent; now if only the people most desperately in need of reading it weren't barely literate anti-intellectual thugs, it would be an awesomely persuasive rhetorical tool.
- That Mannion fellow explains why the Republicans don't want us to fight Alito. I always thought Linus was a prissy apologist for the status quo, and that that blanket was a symbol of his inability to stretch his mind beyond his narrow Judaeo-Christian bias.
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