There seems to be a concerted effort to get-nail chomsky, and much of it
comes from lefties and pseudo lefties, more liberal than left, who seem
to just hate the guy...this academic thing is much too long for me to
bother with, especially after picking up the tone, and the ridiculous
citing of Joan Baez...JOAN BAEZ?...and her full page ad in the NYtimes
about (gasp-horror) political prisoners in Viet Nam...wow!

as I recall, her expose was based on a prisoner who smuggled "secret
information" out of the nam slammer...how? he stuck it up his butt!
double wow!

for the benefit of people who live in the clouds, I suppose it is an
expose to find out that some leftist foreign movements were not composed
of collegial debate teams from affluent western families who majored in
philosophy and inactivity...for me, this is tired bullshit inspired by
people who should have better things to do than relive -in part
according to fantasy and bias - past history in order to "get" someone
they can't stand because he is...smarter than they are? what the hell is
going on? this is the most important stuff to deal with at this time??

fs