In The Control Room of

In The Control Room of the Beast - I'm pondering getting involved with a local non-profit communications group. I went to an orientation meeting the other day, and was amazed by the ways in which the group's governing body - which is famously left-of-center - tiptoed around the idea of exerting agenda-based control over the group's output.

Whenever I confront this sort of things, I go to SCSU Scholars; the subject seems to be one of their most reliable threads.

Sure enough - yesterday, King Banaian was talking about SCSU's new speech codes.

The piece is a Brinks truck full of money quotes - read it all. I suppose if you're involved with non-profits, academia or education, this is all head-thumpingly obvious stuff. For me - getting back into it for the first time since my last involvement with a crushingly-liberal non-profit in the early nineties - it's a continuing, er, re-education.