And I Thought I Was Jaded

by tristero

During the past five godawful years, I’ve tried as hard as I could, as a defense and therapy, to cultivate a zen-like attachment that is beyond shock. And yet, dammit, It’s simply impossible.

The moment I think the group of morons running amok in my country couldn’t possibly make bigger fools of themselves, they manage to surpass their previous idiocy by being more incompetent than anyone, not even I, could possibly imagine:

Inside Higher Ed reports that some people got together and went through David Horowitz’s book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America looking for errors. They found a bunch, of course, but by far the funniest one was the discovery that “While Horowitz’s book promises a list of the 101 most dangerous academics, he actually includes only 100.”

PZ Myers makes the excellent point that this means that those of us who are royally pissed that we weren’t included can assume it was just an inadvertent editing snafu (I’m no professor but I have taught at some good universities on occasion, and did my best to corrupt young minds by exposing them to leftist/liberal masterpieces like the Marriage of Figaro. Man, I so totally deserve to be 101.)

(slightly edited after original posting.)