The "Professor Watchlist" silliness

Various readers have sent this silly list of anti-American, anti-free speech faculty, or something like that.   We've seen these lists before, and they fade away fairly quickly because, "Who cares?"  The organizers of this one are especially stupid:  when it first appeared, they had both my colleagues Eric Posner and Judge Richard Posner on the list--Eric for noting that private schools can regulate student speech, and maybe some schools should since their students are children; and Richard...well, there are so many possible reasons.  But now they're gone from the list, I guess someone told the ding-dongs that, "Those guys are on the right," or something like that.  Here's what I suggest:  ignore it.  It's a badge of honor to be on it, of course, but it's just a publicity stunt by pathetic right-wingers.  And if you can't ignore it, self-nominate!