I managed to read Lange's long essay, but I was left puzzled by one statement. Later, in K.C.'s comment section, I saw that someone else didn't get it either. Lange seems to be talking about two different things. You are so smart, I thought maybe you can tell me what this means:
"The cumulative damage of the months of attacks on some of our faculty and the distress of those who sympathize with them is exceeding the limits of prudence about provoking external reactions."
"The cumulative damage of the months of attacks on some of our faculty and the distress of those who sympathize with them is exceeding the limits of prudence about provoking external reactions."
Academia and pot bangers are suppressing their anger over "blog hooligans?" :oD
Here is one for you ...
"Whatever happens will happen for whatever reason it happens," Nifong said. "I think I can assure you if I did anything that happened to be what Jackie [Brown] suggested, that would not be the reason I was doing it."
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/531192.html