More Noted Things

On schools of education: Peter Wood v Arthur Levine.

Brad,"Leggo My Ego; or, An Exhortation to Conference Presenters," The Weblog, 22 March, thinks outside the box, which btw is desperately needed among conference presenters. After the doctors put me on hormone therapy, I told a friend that the opening line for my next conference presentation would be:"Ladies, I'm having a hot flash!" I figured that would get everyone's attention. Fortunately, I've not had any such side-effects.

Here's the videotape of Pat Robertson promoting David Horowitz's The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. 30-40,000"murderers""killers""sexual deviants"" communists" and"supporters of al Qaeda" teaching your children! I keep trying to figure out how" communists" and"supporters of al Qaeda" would be natural allies. Thanks to Scott Jaschik,"Murderers, Video, and Academic Freedom," Inside Higher Ed, 23 March, for the tip.

At Political Animal, Kevin Drum takes it as a sign of the apocalypse that, in OCLC's list of books most commonly found on library shelves, Garfield at Large ranks #15. Despite that amusement, OCLC's list of the top 1000 books owned by libraries is interesting, if you like lists.