THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES. A pseudonomyous but prissy professor of humanities somewhere in the midwest suggests that the academic weblog might be a career-killer. This comment at Dan Drezner's pretty well sums up the impression the post gives.

Increasingly, academia comes across as a stereotypical small town ruled by Mr and Mrs Pecksniff and their friends. Why would anyone want to spend time there?

Who needs a Mr and Mrs Pecksniff, tribbles are born pregnant and don't have to recruit, right? University Diaries has a similar reaction.

Sadder yet is the academic stereotype of timid conventionality that the tone as well as the anonymity of this piece reflect.

Public Brewery has the literature review, if you will. Jeff at Quid nomen illius? uses the column as antidote to cognitive dissonance.

For my part, you know who I am and you know I will call out the poseurs, the pusillanimous, and the political hacks as it suits me.