Heh. Heh heh.

This is what I mean about the gloat. 
Here's the current post topping the blog of UW Law Professor Annie Althouse, who is in fine form today.   Real classy, professor.*

Remember:  Taxpayers help support the intellectual development of this woman, who works and represents the public law school in our state:

headline:
"Awwww, someone is mad because they look worse than someone who wasn't born a woman.  That's jealousy, and it's uuuugly."

Text:  "She might want to try some Preparation H for all that butt hurt."

= top-rated comment at Think Progress.

Posted by Ann Althouse at 1:32 PM

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* and I don't much buy that you've got a "qualifying" gay son yourself as immunity against such lame humor.  Sorry, no free passes, Prof.

ADDED:  I'd recommend the higher ed world as the next place to pound that budget-cutting cudgel.

C'mon.  What is it -- 8 months a year spent working, teaching three classes a week?  Minus the obligatory student break time off... 

Once they hit tenure, these folks don't produce a decent piece of legal scholarship for years, and say what you will, Althouse is a personal blog not contributing to the legal marketplace of ideas like a true legal blog, say Volokh.

Plus, you add up the benefits to the stay-at-home, early retirement spouse...  (this is the second, if her references to earlier husband Cohen are legit) what exactly is this woman costing Wisconsin taxpayers?  Even on a charity-fellowship paid for out of private dollars, surely those state benefits add up.

For what exactly?  Can't we hire a less-costly, less-senior professor to do this teaching work, someone who might have the legal chops for independent legal scholarship as well on the time off? 

If we're in the cutting mood, I'd think that letting Ms. Althouse step down to blog privately during her own time, and hiring someone less interested in performance-art controversy and being ... a bad girl online, might be a wise move overall.

Someday, you might just offend the wrong person afterall with all that naughty "butt hurt" talk.  Conservatives don't take kindly to paying for such speech, and they tell me the governor's out to save us all money, so how about it? 

Free Althouse,  and sever the connection between a private blog and the representation of what used to be an overall decent law school reputation.