Playing the Part of the Fool, Getting In On the Fun

First things first: FrontPage magazine is conducting an online poll to determine the worst Professor in America. I insist, on basic moral grounds, that that award goes to no lesser luminary than the esteemed Michael Berube. Professor Berube was cheated of his previous demolishment of the vote by an erasure of the vote as of Monday afternoon. We must regain momentum, and fight again! Show David Horowitz the face of the man you fear, and the name that belongs to that afeared face is Michael Berube! If you have any care for democracy at all, especially incarnate in the form of online web polls, you must act! Vote now! Vote early! Vote often! Vote using computers belonging to a number of dead Chicagoans! Noam Chomsky must be conquered!!!

No offense to Professor Chomsky intended. He seems like a very nice man.

And in side news, I've managed to do a cursory look over the Nature Medicine article discussed earlier today, and I really don't have anything new to say about it. It's of a fair amount of interest to people who focus their addiction research on the VTA, a moderate amount of interest to those of us who focus on other areas (in my case, the Nucleus Accumbens), and of little interest outside that. Further publication, with more detailed data and methods, will probably help increase that amount of interest immensely.