When Book-Worlds Collide

Rarely does this happen. In fact, I've tried to remember when it's happened before, and I can't. I've probably experienced it before -- in reverse, anyway -- when reading one book because I saw it referenced in another. But THIS time there was a link between two books you'd NEVER expect to be linked -- THE LAST TWO BOOKS I REVIEWED!!!

Yes, it's true. There's a link between Nancy French's "A Red State of Mind" (thanks for the comment, Nancy!) and David Horowitz's "Indoctrination U"!!! On page 79 of Horowitz's book (which I finished tonight to the accompaniment of XM Radio's Classic Country station), Horowitz is discussing hearings on academic freedom -- or the lack of it -- in Pennsylvania state universities and colleges that took place in the Pennsylvania legislature, and Horowitz includes these sentences:

At the very first session in Harrisonburg, attorney David French testified that speech codes at fifteen of the seventeen universities in the Penn State system were violating their students' First Amendment rights. French was in a position to know since he had already successfully sued one of the Penn State campuses over the constitutionality of its codes. Yet after hearing this testimony, Representative Dan Surra, a Democrat member of the committee, attacked the proceedings as "a colassal waste of time," Afterwards, he told a reporter that it was "a hunt for Bigfoot." There could be no clearer indication that the opposition was uninterested in the facts or in the academic freedom of Pennsylvania students.

And just who is David French? Well, after reading both Horowitz's book and Nancy French's book, I conclude that he is none other than the law professor husband of Nancy French, the would-be Catfish Queen! (You've really got to read her book to understand.)

Coincidence? I think NOT!!!