Jeffrey Wiesenfeld Does CUNY Proud

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld is a trustee of the City University of New York (where I teach for a living). Wiesenfeld is a courageous fighter. Here is an excerpt of him introducing a speaker at an anti-Ahmadinejad rally in New York. Wiesenfeld proves that not everyone in higher education is a pro-terrorist crackpot. (H/t Irene Alter). There actually are a few good guys in higher education.

Thank You from Christian

I'm not sure where to begin but I'll start with thank you. As an
amateur at everything I do, except cooking, I can't tell you how
heartening it is to know out there are people who see what I see. And
you are so much better at saying it. I'll be back.

Christen

Macs Ranger of MacsMind.com Hacked By Obama Campaign Thugs...Again

This is MacRanger of Macsmind. As you know I was hacked by operatives of the Obama Campaign last month. Well, it happened again. Basically they flooded the site with "sql bombs" according to the host that caused the shared server to stop running. Subsequently be had to disable the site. This had to do with running the "Obama wants to Disarm America" post which more than 2 million people viewed on the site. Just like the goons in Missouri, the Obama truthers can't let the truth be known. I've now moved the blog back to blogspot at macsmind.blogspot.com at least temporally. Because of the hacking job I had to move to another host but unfortunately they haven't got the server up yet to redirect the traffic to blogspot. I would appreciate a mention to your readers. I'm getting a couple of hundred emails about "what happened", but as you can imagine it hard to get the word out by reply.

Thanks,

MacRanger
Jack Moss
Macsmind.com

David Seidemann Comments on the PSC's Use of CUNY's E-mail

Dear Mitchell,

To reinforce your argument, allow me to point out two things:

1) The Second Circuit Carroll case regarding NYPIRG funding specifies that NYPIRG is an ideologic organization.

2) An internal NYPIRG memo leaked to the press in the mid 1990s shows, among many things damaging to NYPIRG, that it uses its classroom pitches as a recruitment tool.

Further, there is now a court case pending that addresses CUNY's entanglement with NYPIRG and the variety of First Amendment violations that flow from that.

David