The Bloody Obvious and Its Bleeding Interpretations

Here's a link to a refreshing article addressing that old chestnut, the liberal bias of university faculty.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/16/conservative

Perhaps there are fewer conservatives in higher education because conservatives are more attracted to fields that are lucrative and stable. Wow!

Sadly, the comments that follow it contain the same stale arguments on the issue. Particularly annoying are the people who complain that there are few conservatives in higher ed because the work done there isn't useful. Are these people upset about being excluded from doing useless things? That's like me criticizing a skeet shooting club for not knitting more socks and having more knitters as members.