"Because the stakes are so low"

...Churchill's pretty funny reason why academia can get so heated.

Some of you are bothered as was I by the stalking. I don't entirely blame the dude who did it. His suffering and aggression had been marinating in the situational violence of early ecocriticism.

Which is why the editor of that journal leapt to his defense. Again, the postmodern violence that enables someone to attack humans in the name of nonhumans.

One of his taglines was "I speak for the trees."