Maggie's Farm

so right you are -- the only thing that makes it self-esteem (rather than a pose calling itself that) is the fact that earning it is the only way to create it.

re Ayers link, here's a snip from it:

''And Dohrn, Ayers wife, is no better. Her remark concerning the murders by the Manson "family" showed her true colors:

''Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!''

Dohrn was as involved in all the violence the Weather Underground committed as Ayers. And now?
[She's] a lawyer, [and] a member of the American Bar Association’s governing elite, as well as the director of Northwestern University’s Children and Family Justice Center.
And of course, Ayers personifies arrogance unbound:
I interviewed Ayers ten years ago, in a kindergarten classroom in uptown Manhattan where he was employed to shape the minds of inner city children. Dressed in bib overalls with golden curls rolling below his ears, Ayers reviewed his activities as a terrorist for my tape recorder. When he was done, he broke into a broad, Jack Horner grin and summed up his experience: "Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country."

i wonder, were there no other candidates for Director of Northwestern University’s Children and Family Justice Center?

No administrators around who could do the job as well, but without the radical anti-America and homicidal acting-out bona fides?

Something is sho-nuff rotten in the state of academia -- not just a little rotten, not just funny-eccentric absent-minded professor rotten, but really rotten. Bad rotten.