Thomas Sowell has commented over Ward Churchill and other academic fools in a recent editorial, which is likely to make Tobin Jones go apeshit!
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050215.shtml
here's an excerpt
At one college, some gutsy students start chanting "OT" -- for "off topic" -- when one of their professors starts making political comments that have nothing to do with the subject of his course.
Should a professor of accounting or chemistry be fired for using up class time to sound off about homelessness or the war in Iraq? Yes!
By that standard, Dr Foltz (former UH English prof) would get fired! And again, Foltz's disciple Tobin Jones will defend Foltz's actions.
Jones calls off-topic rants a "supplement" to one's education! What horseshit!
Imagine if Tobin Jones or Dr Foltz was teaching math. Kids wouldn't be learning how to add, subtract, multiply or divide. Kids would learn that Republicans are evil, and that anyone who disagrees are racists, homophobic, sexists, and uneducated. Meanwhile, those kids will go out in the work world not knowing how to do basic math. Not only would those kids be unqualified to be accountants or engineers, they wouldn't qualify to be carpenters. Students wanting to be carpenters have been turned away from carpenter-training courses because they couldn't do simple math, nor understand basic measurements! They had to take remedial math just to enter those training courses.
Here's my past Ka Leo editorials for off-topic rants
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/08/12/411af58193e96?in_archive=1
Do you want your waiter to talk about abortion policy? No, you want the waiter to get your food and drinks. The waiter's view on abortion is irrelevant when I'm waiting for my food. Do you want the firefighters to talk about the war on Iraq when your house is burning? No, you want them to put an end to the fire. I could care less about their views on the war on Iraq, as long as my home is saved from the fire.
And here's my editorial that got Tobin Jones apeshit!
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/10/23/3f978f7c5b652?in_archive=1
here's Tobin Jones irrational reply
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/10/29/3f9f4c1b8e013?in_archive=1
and here's Stuart Hayashi refuting Tobin Jone's horseshit!
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/11/05/3fa8983875509?in_archive=1
