Eric Yost wrote: " ... jump up and down, its graying, narcissistic, silly pigtail flipflopping, squalling obscenities in order to subvert the master narrative, its puer aeternus knee-length shorts pulled down for emphatic mooning of the pro and con." While this fellow deserves all the attention he is getting, looking into the circumstances of this display has made me a bit sympathetic. What sort of communications professor shouts 'Racism!' when challenged? Well, an academic who views argumentation as performance, I suppose. She deserves to be fired as much as he. Phil Enns Yogyakarta, Indonesia ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html