It's pretty obvious that this poor guy is suffering from mental illness. I hope they can help him.

There are so many people this could be...I had to read the article to see if it was one of the wacko, Bush-delusional, God-hating, metro-femimine "male" professors I know. Nope, but I wouldn't have been surprised.

There isn't a god...for him...except him...and he's alone...and will be...always.

Hussein voter.

just proves that you can stand only so much calculus.

I think we have the blueprint for Obama's debate performance.

No charges filed?

Not for indecent exposure?
Not for disturbing the peace?

Abolish tenure

The Math Professor only dropped his drawers because he wanted to count to eleven.

And he will vote for The Once.

Idle curiosity. What drugs did he take when he was younger?

Seriously? Mental illness? Dementia? Nervous breakdown?

As a professional mathematician, he would expect his words to be parsed. He may be right that there may be no "F****** God", but there may still be others.

If I'm going to hell for thinking that then I want to blame several Catholic Nuns (OP's) who insisted on logical linguistic expression above all.

If education was not 'free' it would not be treated as though it were worthless.

#9. If he takes his shoes off it's 21.

What do you have to do to get fired and busted? Oh, I know. Say something good about a Republican.

They're a lotta nut jobs in Academe.

Bored, I guess, just reading his lesson outline to our class--an outline probably drafted around 1942-52 or so (I swear I saw a moth or two flutter out when he turned the pages)--out of his dusty old three ring binder, one of my former professors, who was supposed to be teaching us a "profession," and who looked a lot like "Mr. Peepers", took off his shoes one day, got up on a desk, did a little dance, and sang "Yes we have no bananas" in falsetto.

His secret advice to us was that, no matter how unoriginal, without merit, and totally boring the supposed "research" paper you might write, if you submitted it to enough publishers (I think his record was publication by the 38th publication he submitted one paper to--sooner or later--one of them would surrender (he would also re-submit the same paper to some publications, over and over again) and publish it.

A year or so later I heard the news that he had been made a full Professor.

I bet he doesn't have a paper trail either.

Yikes. Would expect something like this to come from Ann Arbor more than from East Lansing. But, academikooks are acacemikooks everywhere, I guess.

Steve Jobs invented the computer?

The guy really is a delusional jackass.

#7, criminal charges require proving a requisite mental state. In the case of indecent exposure, it's usually something along the lines of "with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of himself or another." Disorderly is something like "knowingly does an act in such a manner as to disturb another."

In a case like this, you'd have difficulty proving the intent or the knowledge requirements, since he clearly was acting irrationally.

Nah, poster #13, he couldn't count to 21, he left his socks on.

I suspect this is less about God than the prof's dingus. Some men never come to terms with those things.

Most of my math professors were nuts. One I swear lived out of his green Datsun hatchback. From what I recall TA's taught Calculus I. This guy must have been on probation if he was teaching an introductory course.

Yeah, was was it that Freud said?
"Sometime a slide rule is just a slide rule" ?

How'd Ward Churchill get another teaching job?

Punch got spiked over at the faculty club.

My layman's diagnosis is schizophrenia. If they do a test they will probably find all kinds of the wrong kinds of medication in his system. bad brain chemistry + self-prescribed neuropharmacology = emotional collapse. Having watch something similar up close and personal, I can tell you it is an ugly thing to watch.

#17, I saw that too. Anyone who thinks Jobs invented the computer is completely unqualified to be a mathematician at any level. The guy sounds like a total whackjob - of which I knew plenty of in my college math classes. The field attracts a certain type of crazy.

I heard the guy also moonlights as a DNC pollster and just got a peek at the internals before this episode.

Lucky for the nutty professor, he didn't say something that might hurt his career -- like that anthropogenic-climate-change theory is a scam. Or that Obama is still hiding some potentially-embarrassing (or even potentially-incriminating) secret by refusing to release school records and generating more than one bogus birth certificate. (Admitting skepticism over either matter can be enough to end someone's career in some circles.)

Why does the professor wear clothes?

Everyone should have just pointed at his package and started laughing.

If this guy were a fill-in-the-blank studies prof, his stunt would be part of the curriculum. I thought it was until I read that Mr. McCarthy was a math teacher. How can anyone tell when these people are having meltdowns and when they're just conducting their classes?

Those who really can teach wish they were allowed to.

thanks obama for getting this country back to the 20's. i have black friends i have stopped talking to. i speak when they call but i am drifting away. can't help it. obama talks of black rage. i find myself thinking that the

friends i used to have don't really like me.

Mathematicians have a reputation for being a little closer to the edge of sanity than the average person. Chess players too. Just too much abstract thought, I guess. They should all have to take daily rations of poetry to keep them sane.