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Tuesday, February 01, 2005

CHURCHILLIAN TWILIGHT


By now you probably know that Hamilton College, citing death threats against everyone and his Aunt Tillie, has cancelled Ward Churchill's appearance. The race is now on to gin up the rhetoric condemning this monster, this piece of shit, this appalling outrageous etc.

Oh, and the governor of Colorado wants his sorry ass out of his taxpayer subsidized office.




Things, in short, have played out. UD doubts Churchill will be able to continue meeting classes without armed guards. He can make way more money on the book and radio circuit than he can as a professor of ethnic studies anyway. He is famous now. So he'll probably resign his job at the University of Colorado.



Posted at: 2/01/2005 03:45:00 PM