In the wake of the interview with Lynn Margulis we translated a few days ago, I have been informed by several Spaniards that Ms. Margulis is not at all typical of Americans. I beg to disagree. Our wacky leftists are just as far-out as yours, and we have lots of them. And they get a good bit of publicity over here in Spain, too, with Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky and Paul Krugman being regularly quoted in the Spanish press. I'm surprised, in fact, that the stereotype of the conservative, patriotic American is so strong over here that nobody notices that most of the Americans, virtually every single one who's not part of the government, that get mentioned in the Spanish press are lefties.

As a public service we will therefore occasionally mention cases of egregious leftist insanity from the good old USA, just to convince a few of you folks out there that our intelligentsia and performing/fine arts crowd are just as crazy as anything you can produce. And you'd be surprised how many followers they have. Hey, 49% of the American people voted Democrat last time.

This is from the Cincinnati Enquirer, quoted by James Taranto in Best of the Web. Note the professor's lack of respect for others' freedom of expression. And this one is not even particularly bad.

 A professor at Northern Kentucky University said she invited students in one of her classes to destroy an anti-abortion display on campus Wednesday evening.

NKU police are investigating the incident, in which 400 crosses were removed from the ground near University Center and thrown in trash cans. The crosses, meant to represent a cemetery for aborted fetuses, had been temporarily erected last weekend by a student Right to Life group with permission from NKU officials. . . .

Witnesses reported "a group of females of various ages" committing the vandalism about 5:30 p.m., said Dave Tobertge, administrative sergeant with the campus police.

Sally Jacobsen, a longtime professor in NKU's literature and language department, said the display was dismantled by about nine students in one of her graduate-level classes.

"I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to," Jacobsen said. . . .

She said she was infuriated by the display, which she saw as intimidating and a "slap in the face" to women who might be making "the agonizing and very private decision to have an abortion.' " . . .

"Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged," Jacobsen said.