You’re a leftist professor who is distraught– DISTRAUGHT– that conservatives are beating you like a red-headed step-child riding a rented mule. What do you do? Maybe try to understand why you’re getting beaten? No, silly, that would use logic, and that’s what a conservative would do! No, you pay your grad students a grand to write 2,000 word hatchet jobs.
You know what surprised me the most about this piece? Fifty cents a WORD. I don’t have the reference in front of me, but I remember one of Heinlein’s essays talking about how he negotiated a book sale in the late 1970′s at around seven cents a word. I’d be interested to know what an entry-level rate is for fiction writing is now-a-days…
(H/T Instapundit)
Patrick
15 Jun 10 at 5:26 PM
I don’t know where you get your information from Dixie, but that article says that the information is to be well-documented and scrupulously accurate. We all know that liberals don’t understand the meaning of those words or practice its use.
But since you opened this up (or showed me the way), I wonder if they would except my essays on global warming and “blood in the streets” or “crime will go up”. Oops, firearms isn’t one of the policies. Maybe the global warming essay can get me the $1k. Hmm. No. It is suppose to be against conservative policy. I can’t win.
Dixie
15 Jun 10 at 5:42 PM
Heh. For a grand, I can gin up something with enough technobabble in it that they’d never know what I was talking about.