Stan Hits Home Run

[Dennis Robert Redmond]

Sometimes I want to whack Stanley Fish with a breadstick, but his latest
column is a delight. After a gruesome list of all the ways that academics
demean, humiliate, and generally screw over fellow job applicants, Fish
writes:

"The reason is simple but mysterious: Academics, most of whom can claim to
be human beings, do not typically display the behavior of human beings,
and seem especially incapable of recognizing job candidates as fellow
human beings." 
(full article: http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/08/2002081601c.htm)

Stiglitz denouncing the IMF, Stan telling the academics to fuck off --
revolution is in the air!

-- Dennis