Thank *you*, sir.

When the issue came about outside the education blogs - Sen. Obama and Ayers, as it reflected on Sen. Obama - I realized that plenty of people wanted a quick refresher on SDS, RYM, WUO, etc. I tried to keep it short with plenty of general links, but it’s such a fascinating subject [to me, at least] that one could write a million words on and still not touch every salient point.

Having said that, I think that one can look at the evidence process a fair judgment of Ayers’ actions in no more than one word.

I thought that intimations of McCarthyism were inappropriate and tried to reflect those thoughts in the post and in the ensuing comments. It’s been an interesting and informative discussion.