Rites of Spring

Every year, at the end of the semester, I put on the bottom of my teaching evaluations whether the instructor showed any bias in favor of any particular ideology or party, and if so, what was it. Most all say no, and about a quarter say yes, but then split cleanly between those who claim I'm a flaming commie or a flippin' fascist. Those who complain about me being ideological always say that I offended them as being the polar opposite of their ideology, and complain about my grades as well (poor witty bitty students, mean old pwofessor made you wead). I put it on the evals a couple of years before I came up for tenure to insulate myself against charges from any of my chablis marxist colleagues who would claim, well, I was one of those people. (Anyone who still thinks that tenure somehow protects "academic freedom" is so quaintly niave.)

Anyhoo, by the time they become seniors, there's always an intense debate over what political party Professor LLama actually belongs to---now, at long last, I can finally tell them.

Somehow, I know it won't come as a surprise.

BTW, the ANWR drilling bit is classic, and really needs to be on a t-shirt and bumper sticker.