Sunday, January 22, 2006

The Corner needs a dictionary

GRADING UCLAPROFS.COM [Jonathan H. Adler]
I am all for serious efforts to document the extent to which academia tilts Left, and I see no problem with highlighting actual instances in which individual professors use their classrooms as political soapboxes -- academic freedom does not mean immunity from criticism. As far as I can tell, however, the UCLAProfs.com website getting so much media attention is something of a blunderbuss.


blunderbuss
One entry found for blunderbuss.
Main Entry: blun·der·buss
Pronunciation: 'bl&n-d&r-"b&s
Function: noun
Etymology: by folk etymology from obsolete Dutch donderbus, from Dutch donder thunder + obsolete Dutch bus gun
1 : a muzzle-loading firearm with a short barrel and flaring muzzle to facilitate loading
2 : a blundering person


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