Den Beste talks about pseudonymous posting, courage of convictions, and &tc.

Me, I’m a hawkish humanities teacher who curses alot, thinks just about everyone working in his field is heavily invested in theoretical tripe (I beg them to change, really I do), and is convinced that the “diversity” project so favored by university bureaucrats ranks right up there with the push to switch Americans over to the metric system as one of the two biggest failures of 20th-century social engineering (the metric system switch ’cause it didn’t work, the “diversity” project because it did). If anybody should have a pseudonym, it’s me. I mean, I ain’t got tenure…

Here’s my thinking, though: Don’t like what I have to say? Convince me otherwise. That’s how debate works, and that’s how I learn. Don’t want to hire me because you think I “won’t be comfortable in your department”? Screw you. That’s code for you won’t be comfortable having me and my worldview around. And it’s people like you who’ve reduced the educational experience of most contemporary college students to little more than a four-year course (okay, so maybe a six-year course if you’re like me and you like the beer) in “tolerance” studies — one of the most misleading appellations placed on any program ever, particularly when that program’s done nothing but inspire anti-American atrocities like free-speech zones, and stifle a good deal of worthwhile debate by establishing the omnipresent threat of “hate-speech” violations.

In short, I put my name on things because why not? I’m only going to live once. May as well take credit (or blame) for the one life I’m gonna have. Right?

[update: besides, I can’t spell Sisyphus correctly with any degree of regularity…]