Was fortunate enough the other day to have a PhD workshop at the department with Larry Grossberg, who was in town for a lecture promoting his upcoming book "Caught in the Crossfire" about America's 'War on Children'. Fascinating stuff. And scary.



The whole 'hacks for Bush' thing is getting out of hand.

But why should we really be that surprised? There seems to be no moral outrage, certainly among the audience, who seem to just regard these instances as standard operating procedure. Nor are people suitably agitated by the amount of spending on PR by the administration.

Now it seems that Bush has ordered departments to cool it.

"We will not be paying commentators to advance our agenda. Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet," he said.

We'll see.

And, of course, it's not as though there aren't other ways for folks in less high-profile positions to make their opinions known.


Somehow, after Spongebobgate, this was probably inevitable....


And you gotta love this, even if you don't get C-Span 3: