And WHAT would you have the librarian do? BETRAY the very grant recipients who entrusted their causes and hopes to the Challenge?

How many grant recipients, councils and associated reform groups need to be dragged through the American public’s notorious media gauntlet, until they are but sobbing sound bytes bemoaning their ill-fated sex tapes and the Rube Goldberg devilry that broadcast it globally? How does that promote public service?

I should love to see the Neocons try to sully the tales of those same Collaborative servants who, on that day of days in chilly unsuspecting January, did win a wealth of funds, public and private, from the greedy grip of the Common’s scarcity! To stand against them was to beckon a storm of them, flooding into Special Collections reading area, some lilting a list of wrongdoings, others shrieking the names of abstract principles, as if to mourn them. Resist they may, but the Fox News Cameras and even the mighty Cavuto himself would be swallowed into the undulating mass of sweaters, scraggly hair and patched blazers!