I'm not sure you read it, but until recently there was a gem of a regular piece on ESPN.com called Tuesday Morning Quarterback, by Greg Easterbrook. It was a hilarious mixture of an informed layman's NFL analysis, combined every imaginable type of social, scientific, and cultural commentary (comedy). Easterbrook is, actually, a serious scholar (unlike Limbaugh)... but was fired for perhaps even more innocuous comments that did not even occur in the publication of his article for ESPN.com. Here's a link to the weblog that got him fired. The controversial part is near the bottom and is the only part I paste. http://www.tnr.com/easterbrook.mhtml?pid=844 This is absurd. My feelings: 1. There was no categorical condemnation of Jewish people. 2. There was no categorical condemnation of the Jewish faith or tenets of that faith. 3. His position, simply, that a person who professes a creed or is part of a group that has been subjected to terrible violence in recent history should be sensitive to enabling violence-filled phenomena are being perverse. Is that really all that bigoted? Or even controversial?
Law school must be frying your brain. Just a few threads down... http://bbs.clutchcity.net/php3/showthread.php?s=&threadid=66631
