Well, former BU supreme commander John Silber has a new book out, and guess what he's angry about? No, not the gays. Not heathen college students who can't stop ****ing long enough to read the complete works of Kant. The subject that has Silber especially wrinkly: ugly buildings!

Silber unloads on Frank Gehry's work at MIT, labeling it "trash," and isn't too fond of a lot of the crap that has been dumped on BU's campus as trial runs for making something pretty at Harvard. Presumably this includes the School of Law, which looks like a giant prop deemed too ugly for Blade Runner.

What is he a big fan of? Well, for one, the $30 million administrative office building which incorporated his offices way back in the dark ages when he ran things.

His response to the criticism that he had built himself a ****ing penthouse to work in:

"Yale and Harvard have beautiful facilities for their presidents, and for their alumni. It's fine for them to have lovely premises, but BU better not aspire to anything excellent? That's a slur on the university that I refuse to accept."

He has a point, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Before BU aspires to excellence, how about we aspire to pretty-goodness? And before we try to build a dorm modeled on Gaudi, how about repairing the brownstones and rebuilding some of those alumni-relations bridges that John Silber burnt?

Yeah, take that, Silber! A pun! You want some of this, old man? Any time, any place. Well, any well lit place. You have a look of desperation in your eyes that suggests that the next little thing might set you off.