Hah! Chomsky! A girl I know quite well studied at MIT last year, for her Ph.D. She's a linguist, and very leftwing. Extremely bright too.

Naturally, she was really excited about working with Chomsky, which she did for a full semester. Boy, was that a dissapointment...

Apparantly, in his daily life, mr. Chomsky is of a completely unagreeable character, insufferable even. A tyrant for his underlings. Worst of all, rude to the supporting staff, the cleaners and such.

Since I disagree with both her and Chomsky about both politics and linguistics, their little conflict of characters is an endless source of amusement to me. I can tease her for it till her grave, and well intend to.