I curse the air I breathe

I understand that Instapundit throws words like "Mccarthyism" around by reflex, but come on.

I really don't see why firing professors who advocate intelligent design is a bad thing. Intelligent design is a deeply anti-scientific concept. If you worked for Wal-Mart, say, and then started to make public statements denouncing the company as evil or criminal, you wouldn't expect to keep your job for much longer. Likewise, if you're a science professor and then start attacking science, expect your colleagues to have a serious problem with it.