[Steve Eisenberg]

I would be reluctant to post if I thought most readers would be annoyed by my grammar errors. Yea, it's lazy to not always run through a spell checker, but like many of us here, I don't always do it. As a history major, I would say that Dr. Curtiss wrote pretty well for a science major, even in his first time around. Really good writing almost always requires the services of a skilled editor, but since none of us here have one, we shouldn't expect anything better than what Dr. Curtiss gave us. I certainly understood his initial story and find it a powerful one. If, I as I expect, it is true, Dr. Curtiss's 15 minutes are at hand.

Hmm. I really don't know whether the apostrophe in the last sentence of the previous paragraph was correctly placed. But that "Post Reply" button looks pretty tempting, so . . .

[VOA]

As a history major, I would say that Dr. Curtiss wrote pretty well for a science major,
even in his first time around.

During my "tour of duty" in graduate school (biochemistry), trying to
decipher the writing of some professors was a challenge.
I do remember one professor saying he was ashamed of the "C" grades in English
on his transcripts.

As for some M.D.s, I suspect the purposefully make their handwriting so bad in an attempt
to disguise their poor English.

And having been in the "belly of the beast" known as academia, I am reticent to
assign "urban legend" status to any reported outrage of political correctness or ideological
insanity.

For example, a few months back a venerable professor overheard me listening to
a talk radio show on the topic of "how can America tell Israel to hold her punches with
the Palestinians when we kick the Taliban's and Al-Quida's butts?".

The fellow, a devout Democrat, tried to engage me in conversation about this topic; I simply
said it was a complex issue and I could understand valid arguments on both
sides of the issue.

For G-d knows what reason, this didn't seem to be a satisfactory answer; I guess the
proper answer was "Those Isreali b@stards should stand down!", as he launched into an
"Israel as the killer of children" diatribe.

After he finished frothing, I said "OK" and let it die.
After a few minutes it hit me, that this guy had made a speech that would make Pat
Buchanan sound ultra-moderate. Incredible.

But I should not have been suprised; Victor Davis Hanson, who writes for National Review,
(and is a professor of classics) says 90% of academia is for the Palestinians, 90% of
the students are for Israel.