Holy cow dung!!!

And the guy is also a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard...

IN THE LA TIMES!!!

They must be smokin' something out there.

Or maybe they finally stopped smokin' and took off the rose colored glasses.

Prof. Gelernter gets it. It's about time someone in academia does. Thanks Prof!

This is just one more reason to hate Libs...

Wow you had me there for a second until I saw it was Gelernter he is a stand up guy. I just wonder how he got tenure if he doesn't worship at the anti American altar.

In the LA Times too that is a serious double whammy.

I take issue with his comments that LTG Boykin (aka. religious bigot) was merely "uppity." Boykin appeared in his dress uniform on numerous occasions at large church gatherings and mixed religion with foreign policy in his official capacity as a general officer. Fine to do in street clothes, not fine to do in uniform and while representing the DoD.

He did not merely say that he "preferred" Christianity - he stated that Muslims worship "idols" and that his "God was bigger than your God." Boykin, so high up in US intelligence, apparantly doesn't know the most basic thing about which God Muslims worship.

While a "minor" portion of the article, the "spin" used to discuss Boykin reveals other fabrications throughout.

Uncle Jimbo:

"I just wonder how he got tenure if he doesn't worship at the anti American altar."

I'm in too big a rush to double-check this, but I think Gelernter's academic specialty is computer science. (Which would be why the Unabomber sent him a package.)

Conservatives are outnumbered in the sciences, and the left tends to be of the angry academic variety, but if you're successful--and in the sciences the criteria are pretty objective--then your colleagues can forgive you almost anything, even their vague suspicion that you may have voted for Bush.

I am a former USAF Reserve officer (68-75) and got my degree in electrical engineering. The tip off for me about Prof Gelernter is his field - Computer Science Vis-a-Vie Political Science, Sociology, Feel-good-olgoy, [fill in the blank]studies, or other non hard science or math or engineering discipline. My personal experience driven opinion is that most of the LLL are of the non math/science/engineering background. As an undergrad, the guys who partied, had all the BS sessions, and went out an "protested" were not engineering students because those guys were too busy busting the books learning how to deal with the laws of physics and reality. You can't BS you way to a degree when the material has to do with a circuit that either works or doesn't, a structure that carries the design load or collapses, ... . Reality is a tough mistress - it seems that too many humanities, liberal arts, history, philosophy, poly sci, .... folks don't seem to learn about it (Victor D. Hansen being a notable exception!) . This is an admitted broad generalization, and an apology to those individual exceptions is hereby offered.

Prof. Gelernter said: "I think I understand what motivates many soldier-hating boomers. They never served in the military, and soldiers make them feel guilty. I never served either, and I have felt that way myself."

I'm not sure that soldier-hating boomers feel guilty -- that would require too much understanding of reality and less knowledge from the ivory tower.

And kudos to Harvey for what he wrote -- I actually had to study for my C.S. degree while my social "science" friends could party for theirs.

Harvey and JPS both are very perceptive ... I've often said that the reason those of us in the "hard" sciences and engineering (I'm a BSEE)tend to be conservative is because our ideas are compared with reality on a daily basis -- even within the walls of the classroom. If those ideas are wrong, your meal ticket expires relatively quick.

Conversely, those within the "soft" sciences and liberal-arts spheres of influence do not have this daily feedback to correct their errors ... their errors persist, and even grow, as a result.

Tight feedback between liberty and consequence is essential for the proper operation of any society.