----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >But, I would caution my academic friends -- if we get all worked up over >NEA or PBS or NEH, aren't we allowing ourselves to be distracted from the >key fights which involve the total restructuring of the government and the >end of wellfare as we know it. I worry a bit more about teen mothers who lack >a means to support their family than I do English professors at elite > institutions who have to look >elsewhere for grants. Newt has done a brillant job of creating a diversion >at the time when thinking leftists out to be engaged in the big fight. Reminder: It's not only "English professors at elite institutions" that are being funded by the NEA, NEH and PBS. Many of us are working stiffs, holding down day-jobs, raising families, and indulging our all-consuming passion of providing quality television programming on (perhaps academic) subjects like women's history who appeal to these government agencies for money. You don't need a degree to get funded, produce films, or enjoy watching the stuff that's broadcast on public television!