Liberal House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder is the 10th most dangerous professor in America! [UPDATE: 13th now--she gets less dangerous by the hour; UPDATE II: 17th! The late Michael Landon must have interceded on her behalf from beyond the grave]

And apparently the most dangerous man in all of American academics is a guy who describes himself thusly:

I teach literature and cultural studies at Penn State University. In my spare time, I lie awake and wonder if the New York Rangers will make the playoffs, a feat they haven't managed since 1997.

Keep your children away from State College, PA. Dr. Berube just might turn them into Mark Messier, and the last thing we need is a bunch of bald French Canadians eating up all the middle manager positions in Pittsburgh and conspiring in Harrisburg to keep Lynn Swann from ballet-dancing his way into the governor's mansion.

3.1.06: Another update shows that Dr. Hockey, the most dangerous employee of an American institution of higher learning has been openly campaigning for the title:

Please vote for me as America’s Worst Professor, if you have the time and inclination. Right now I’m leading Eve Sedgwick by the slimmest of margins, and as you know, I have no Diebold apparatus to fall back upon. But don’t worry about ballot-stuffing! This is FrontPage.com, people—a website whose unofficial (and yet universally acknowledged) motto is “Sloppiness R Us.” There are no limits, no limits at all, on the number of votes you can cast from one IP address. So stop by FrontPage today, and vote for me as America’s Worst Professor. I thank you, and all that is good and holy thanks you.

NB: This same crazy, treasonous liberal hockey fan with a Frenchy-ass name's plea for relevance also references an English professor from the very same English department through which one to three of the contributors here at Your Life's Ideas may or may not have obtained advanced degrees, so I'm feeling a tad bit dangerous today!