OK, enough lollygagging around. The election's done, there won't be a recount in Ohio sufficient to turn things over, and we have Bush to kick around for four more years.

I'll resist most of my impulse to comment on the cabinet departures (rats leaving a sinking ship and all that), along with familiar comparisons to the Politburo and placing loyalty to the Leader above all else, which seems to be the major job qualification.

More seriously, I think that those of us in higher ed need to take seriously these results as an indication that we have to start equipping people to understand how propaganda works, and how one's own ideological position makes one unwilling to apply comparable standards to those on our side. This does have to apply to liberals as well as conservatives, but with the rampant hypocrisy among those in power (think: the DeLay rule), there's a lot of sh*t to clean out of their stables before we get to ours.

More later . . .