Erin O’Connor, an English professor at Penn, who monitors “politically correct” assaults on academic and political freedom in universities (and, who more recently, was a major contributor to the conservative self-pity fest inspired by the David Brooks column on alleged bias against conservatives in academia), has achieved an unparalelled distinction for an academic blogger: there is now an (anonymous, naturally) blog site devoted to monitoring and critiquing her blog each day.

This doesn’t seem like a sound investment of time, does it?

(Word to the wise: these anonymous blog sites aren’t as anonymous as one might think. Since the anonymous sites, unsurprisingly, tend to give rise to more-than-their-share of defamation claims that would survive dismissal motions–and how eager are service providers to defend against such claims? (I don’t know)–this means the identity of all these anonymous blogs is a discovery request away.)