What Al Franken did with his arms and back, academia does every day by fiat on campuses across America.

And while we're at it, it's been almost a year since Glenn over at InstaPundit started drawing attention to the "crushing of dissent" across America and across the world. I think that in the beginning he did it to lampoon the American Lefties who were waxing uberIndignant about the Dixie Chicks getting tossed off ClearChannel and Susan Sarandon being uninvited from the Baseball Hall of Fame and stuff like that. But it's doesn't seem funny anymore. Go here:

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