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(Tenured Radical)

Monday, December 13, 2004

Does This Look to You Like a
Comfortable Florida Retirement?







Far be it from UD to impugn the research of any fellow humanities professor, but, thanks to an alert reader, she must take issue with the finding of the person a few posts down (see UD post dated 12/11/04, titled "Countdown to the MLA Convention"), who describes an enviable fun-in-the-sun type retirement for the "space chimps."

No, the reality is that the chimp named "Able" (and who knows how many of his cohort) finds him/herself (there's some confusion as to gender in the sources this reader and I have consulted) stuffed and put on display in the Smithsonian Museum.

How many other empirically ungrounded claims could we find if we subjected all MLA papers to this sort of scrutiny?
Posted at: 12/13/2004 07:10:00 AM