Alterman: Left in Shambles

[Brad De Long]

>Question: Is Eric Alterman the most reprehensible human ever?
>
>ERIC 
>ALTERMAN <http://www.thenation.com/directory/view.mhtml?handle=alterman_eric>
>
>...Before the debate began, its organizers took a few moments to 
>speak on behalf of the university's graduate students' struggle for 
>unionization. So did West, who had been handed a flier about it from 
>the floor. And as a man about to lose a debate (and a longtime grad 
>student as well as an occasional NYU adjunct faculty member), I was 
>happy for the interruption. Days later, the National Labor Relations 
>Board set an important precedent by ruling in favor of the students. 
>But here's what I don't understand. How can the student union 
>supporters also be Nader supporters? Nonsensical 
>"Tweedledee/Tweedledum" assertions to the contrary, only one party 
>appoints people to the NLRB who approve of graduate student unions, 
>and only one appoints people to the Supreme Court who approve of 
>such NLRB decisions...

Seems like a very good beginning to me...