Friday, May 18, 2007
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Cinnamon Stillwell: Stanford Prof. Joel Beinin Dredges Up False "Death Threat" Claim Against Los Angeles Journalist - '...Somehow Beinin managed to construe this as a death threat and he filed a complaint with the Stanford police to that effect. When they contacted Neuwirth about the complaint, she reiterated the content of her e-mail to Beinin, noting that "if you can't note a historical fact to a history professor, then what are we learning?" The officer she spoke to agreed that the death threat claim was ludicrous and apparently the court concurred, for Beinin's "evidence" was dismissed. That appeared to be the end of the matter until Beinin posted the following comment at the ALEF list on May 14 in response to a posting on the subject...'
