Eric is apparently comfortable using such language as ''inflexible and blind,' to characterize 'academics,' and to talk of 'unopposed demagogues,' who force 'biased nonsense. on impressionable students' who are 'easily cowed by professors into parroting radical or marginal views,' yet is disappointed to find my response 'edgy'--? Sheesh. Robert Paul Edgy as Hamlet ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html