They could have mentioned, for example, a recent article in his FrontPageMagazin.com which calls slain peace activist Marla Ruzicka an “activist bimbette hampering… American soldiers and helping their terrorist killers” and rejoices over her death.

For a flavor of all the the /Chronicle/ article chose to ignore, here is something I posted something on DailyKos which discusses both the Marla attack and provides a round-up of the Columbia case:

LINKED: Marla Ruzicka Attack & Academic Freedom at Columbia University

(1) The notion that it is clever to make a joke about political murder is about as degraded as the supposed joke itself.

I won’t claim my all too obvious quip was clever, but I’ve heard plenty of brilliantly clever jokes about political assassination from the likes of Lenny Bruce, Paul Krassner and Bill Hicks just to pick three which spring immediately to mind. And some of them were downright uplifting too.

(2) Trotsky was killed with an ice axe, not an ice pick. If you must be inane, at least be accurate.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Comrade Trotsky, if he were alive today and had an internet connection would agree with me in agreeing with your initial caveat: You’re right, it doesn’t make a difference.

Try not to be such a stuffed shirt. You’ll give PC a bad name.

(And while you’re at it you might do something about that horrendous graphic banner on Inside higher ed that takes up such a large portion of my screen and I can’t get rid of with either adblock in firefox or pith helmet in safari. I find it it even more annoying than pop-ups/unders would be, and that’s not a joke.)

And by the way, I’m in the company of no less an authority than Marx on the first point above:

“I think the only hope this country has is Nixon’s assassination.”

-Groucho Marx interview with Flash magazine in 1971.

I recall that much the same was said about Newt Gingrich, back when there were people who gave a shit about Newt Gingrich.

I noticed A&LD’s wingnut tendency a long while back, and stopped visiting. It’s something that’s always been there.

Is it still okay to make jokes about Catherine the Great and her horse?

Now we’ve got that mendacious, fascist fuck Horowitz going after tenure within the SUNY system. What tenure, David, you pea-brained douche-bag?

Sigh.

Nice when two different agendas dove-tail so seamlessly into one another, huh?

(1) The notion that it is clever to make a joke about political murder is about as degraded as the supposed joke itself.

(2) Trotsky was killed with an ice axe, not an ice pick. If you must be inane, at least be accurate.

For every sufferer instinctively seeks a cause for his suffering; more exactly, an agent; still more specifically, a guilty agent who is susceptible to suffering—in short, some living thing upon which he can, on some pretext or other, vent his affects, actually or in effigy: for the venting of his affects represents the greatest attempt on the part of the suffering to win relief, anaesthesia—the narcotic he cannot help desiring to deaden pain of any kind. This alone, I surmise, constitutes the actual physiological cause of ressentiment, vengefulness, and the like: a desire to deaden pain by means of affects.

Thus, I understand the agony Horowitz has gone through, as his touching life story hasn’t been filmed (with Brad Pitt in the role of our hero, obviously), Harvard has not responded to the generous offer to run the Kennedy School, and he’s had to suffer on all sorts of fronts.

I look forward to ignoring his next book.

Dear Lord.

btw, Horowitz never got a PhD. So … where’s the beef?