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  • Klaven adopts a Cliff Notes version of A Few Good Men to rationalize his celebration of lawbreaking.

    Bart Motes: W. is not Batman 2008

  • If Klaven believes that the torturers at Abu Gharib deserve the hero treatment, he's mentally ill.

    Bart Motes: W. is not Batman 2008

  • Klaven and his ilk take away this fig-leaf and insist that we celebrate the dismantling of our civil liberties by the very leader sworn by the Constitution to protect them.

    Bart Motes: W. is not Batman 2008

  • We cannot understand, says Klaven, the burden of "the violent soldier or the cruel interrogator" and we vilify them "in order to parade ourselves as paragons of the peaceful values they preserve."

    Bart Motes: W. is not Batman 2008

  • If Klaven was at all correct in his demented thesis, impeachment would be imperative.

    Bart Motes: W. is not Batman 2008

  • Last has one thing over Klaven: he understands that his comparison will only work if he reverses our moral polarity.

    Bart Motes: W. is not Batman 2008

  • I think it is a little naiive to try separate the racism of a Grand Klaven from his scholarship on civil rights.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Finkelstein Affair: 2007

  • I agree a Grand Klaven would not get tenure today at any university, and I think the reason would be because of his linen closet.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Finkelstein Affair: 2007

  • If the Grand Klaven applied for tenure, and his scholarship supported tenure, then who cares about his mental state, or what might be tatooed on his backside?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Finkelstein Affair: 2007

  • However, I am sure that you will agree with me that notwithstanding your views of what is ideal in the real world, no Grand Klaven of the KKK, is going to get tenure at any respectable university on the back of his civil rights research.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Finkelstein Affair: 2007

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