I attended the panel sponsored by ACLU at Duke tonight at the Bryan Center. Prof. K.C. Johnson was brilliant, as expected. Man, that is one smart guy. Can he defend the lacrosse players if it comes to trial? He’d do a great job. Larry Holt of the Durham Human Relations Commission was also on the panel, as was the impressive Stephen Miller, executive director of the Duke Conservative Union. I also got to meet blogger John in Carolina, and spoke with Prof. Steven Baldwin, who wrote that great letter to the Duke Chronicle two days ago.

I was going to blog at length about the evening but with the World Series on one channel and the Hurricanes on another, I just haven’t been able to gather my thoughts. Let me just say that the guy who took it on the chin, other than Durham DA Mike Nifong, of course, was Duke President Richard Brodhead. I didn’t hear a kind word for the man all night. Oh, wait. Yeah, I did. The ACLU moderator said he heard Brodhead urge a hate-filled crowd last spring to withhold their judgement on the lacrosse team. Boy, that’s leadership. More tomorrow.