"" Plan: retiring back to Maine, and perhaps teaching in a college there. That is, if I can get through an interview. Last one bombed when I cracked up at seeing a picture of the interviewer and Fidel on her wall.""
ROTFLMAO.........My parents were both conservative college professors in boston. Why would you want to do this to yourself?? : )
One too many Christmases in Cambodia do that to one. Seriously, I seek faculty employment because I want to understand my own children, at least one or two of whom consider Fidel (and now Chavez!) great leaders.
I keep waiting for some sort of sensible reaction to take place that might swat down the crazed Troktsky-ites who infest colleges, but it never happens. Indeed, it gets worse with each succeeding generation.
One mentions the many millions dead at the hands of international communism, they mention Wounded Knee. You talk about the thousands of political prisoners in Cuba, they talk about how we are killing the planet with Global Warming, after driving to the party in a shiny new Volvo SUV, of course.
Bush, and of course, Nixon=Hitler. Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela=Christ and John the Baptist. These attitudes are prevalent among government employees,too, who reveal them at the slightest indirect provocation.
And, they are very, very serious. This is what Kerry, Gore, and Hillary are about. They could win.