Terrell,

My last may have inspired guilt, but your last inspires fear.   After
all, some righteous (is that why we call it the right wing?)groups are
now attacking universities for their putative "liberal" bias, even
though universities house economics departments and business schools,
etc. that are far from "liberal" in the sense now so commonly used in
political rhetoric.  Clearly there is tremendous political diversity
within universities.  That diversity seems to bother many of the
academy's detractors.  Thus, I take your prediction seriously as a
remote, but still real, possiblity. And don't for a minute think that
the left coast is immune--just go visit the Crystal Cathedral in Orange
County to take our measure.  If you go, you don't have to fly into
LAXXX; you can skip right over Gomorrah South by taking a direct flight
to John Wayne International Airport.

My problem, and you seem to share it so well that your are branded a
kook, is that I just can't seem to take Twain's good advice and be an
intellectual prude: "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we
have three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of
conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

So, when the thought police arrest me, let your guilt guide you into
defending me pro bono.  Unless they get you first.


Gregg