{"id":3180,"date":"2004-12-10T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3180.html"},"modified":"2004-12-10T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T14:30:02","slug":"three-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/three-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-day weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry, but it’s a rare day-off here at The Carpetbagger Report. I’ll be back Monday with plenty of long-winded tirades for your reading pleasure.<\/p>\n

Check back tomorrow, by the way, for a great guest post from the now-infamous Morbo.<\/p>\n

But before I go, I’d like to recommend the one must-read item<\/a> of the day, which comes by way of Jonathan Chait in the LA Times.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, a pair of studies found that Democrats vastly outnumbered Republicans among professors at leading universities. Conservatives gleefully seized upon this to once again flagellate academia for its liberal bias.<\/p>\n

Am I the only person who fails to understand why conservatives see this finding as vindication? After all, these studies show that some of the best-educated, most-informed people in the country overwhelmingly reject the GOP. Why is this seen as an indictment of academia, rather than as an indictment of the Republican Party?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve often wondered the same thing myself. Go read the column<\/a>; you’ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n

Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry, but it’s a rare day-off here at The Carpetbagger Report. I’ll be back Monday with plenty of long-winded tirades for your reading pleasure. Check back tomorrow, by the way, for a great guest post from the now-infamous Morbo. But before I go, I’d like to recommend the one must-read item of the day, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}