From the University of Minnesota release,

“We had heard some things he said that some people judged to be anti-Semitic and against Israeli policy,” said Doug Hennes, St. Thomas’s vice president for university and government relations."

So, now it is impermissible at UM to criticize the policy of a foreign nation.

Israel is not part of the U.S. Mr. Hennes.

I think I'm going to have to draft a nasty letter to Cary Tennis of Salon.

@andy:

Agreed.

"just act christian, everything will be fine!"

Re: The Hillary Clinton article in Wired

One passage is pretty interesting:

Teich was particularly struck by an anecdote that Clinton shared with her audience about how Bush's stem-cell policy had made research in this area particularly difficult. Clinton recalled a story she'd been told about a stem-cell researcher's experiment that had been ruined when the lab suffered a power failure. Because the rules ban researchers from using federally funded facilities for privately funded stem-cell research, the scientist was unable transfer the laboratory samples to a working refrigerator paid for by the federal government. The experiment was ruined.

I really wonder if this is true? Probably in a large regimented government laboratory where equipment can be expected to be walled-off for different projects, it could happen. In a "small group" university research laboratory, it is more difficult to believe that a graduate student or a postdoc or a professor would adhere to rules to the degree that they would allow a huge amount of work go down the drain - damaging a student's thesis rersearch, or a postdocs chances of finding a job, or a professor's chances of getting a grant renewed - because they followed rules to the degree that they wouldn't put samples in a publically funded refrigerator.

If the story is bullshit, was it Hillary's bullshit, or bullshit on the part of the researcher who told her the story? If it isn't bullshit, would you be willing to risk whatever the penalty might be to save your project?

Any opinons about the likelihood that the story is bullshit?

Re: Cary Tennis

The advice was disgusting. And the "football" analogy - could he have come up with anything more fatuous?

A good letter written in response to the Rediculous Cary article, a better response to his evangelical daughter..

http://letters.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/04/christianity/permalink/ed68365ac641f224abded8cc3a23f028.html

"The only problem with being an atheist is you've got no one to talk to when getting a blowjob."

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C. Hitchens

"Oh God. Oh Yeah. Oh, Gaawwwwwwd!"