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  •  I think that 18% surveyed (2+ / 0-)

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    maryb2004, vawolf

    either had very bad careers advice or are being paid paid off by Bushco - the best historians money can buy.

    Interesting diary - tip jar?

    •  It's too bad (1+ / 0-)

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      maryb2004

      they don't disclose who they surveyed...it'd be interesting to see if we can pinpoint who those professors in the 18% are.

      "What's mind? No matter. What's matter? Never mind!" --Homer J. Simpson

      by vawolf on Mon May 01, 2006 at 07:32:55 PM PDT

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      •  I bet that if we put our minds to it (1+ / 0-)

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        -using past utterences, inferences and payrolls and the suchlike we could build up a pretty accurate picture.

        I suspect that this would simply be a matter of following the money.

        •  Despite the right wing meme... (3+ / 0-)

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          jfadden, esquimaux, MacheteJames

          ...about 'liberal campuses', there are plenty of cranky hyper-conservative professors in most departments, certainly in history -- especially among US historians, and even more so among military historians. (By the way, they're now working hard on the 'liberal academia' meme because they succeeded so spectacularly with the same strategy in bullying the media into always adopting a right-wing frame for every story by default.)

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