How did this person pass the bar?

Let alone secure a teaching post at a highly regarded University?

The pictures of Jose Padilla being led to the dentist in leg shackles and blackout goggles have provoked outrage and disgust and bafflement. Why the goggles? What's the point?

Althouse has an answer:

Perhaps there is a fear that he will communicate in code by blinking.

And upon being informed that this is, in fact, completely absurd, she becomes characteristically petulant:

I'm not saying Padilla deserves to be treated the way he has over the years, but I am responding to the assertion that there is absolutely no conceivable reason for blindfolding him. Plainly, I have refuted that.

The floor doesn't get any lower at the Stupid Building than this.

Althouse's students must read her blog and others commenting on her sub-Peggy Noonan level intellectual farts and laugh themselves silly.