Apparently, thanks to a kind link from John Ray, Random Observations has attracted a bit of criticism; and that's not necessarily a bad thing. But there's a few things I think are worth highlighting...

My comments on the Sokal Hoax are:

A perfect example of a copmlete ignorance of postmodernism, combined with an ingorance of philosophical techniques...

(That's so good, I may use it as an endorsement quote.)

And yet also:

In the section titled "Poststructuralism as Projection," the author describes a view sometimes expressed by the more tendentious postmodernist activists. These are not, of course, the postmodern theorists of merit...

I think those two stand quite nicely on their own.

Next, we have this:

The author really has no grasp of what Sokal's hoax meant, or why Sokal did it.

Here's what I wrote on the subject, in response to an article which attempted to explain Sokal's motivations as relatively "conservative" convictions, citing funding from the Department of Defense (!!?) ...

Aware Sokal was instead a leftist, yet one who refused to follow the current trend and relinquish claims to an objective reality, I responded to this characterization with:

But [Sokal's] motives were more likely to root in his direct experience of the utility of science and the scientific method, rather than those given ... the author ... cannot see any motivations in the picture besides the political... If scientists disagree with postructuralism, it must be because of funding from the Defense Department! -- not because the core assertions of radical relativism are undermined by the scientist's daily experience... postructuralism's greatest barrier in the scientific community is the existance of an objective reality, itself.

I am thus roundly refuted with this quote from Sokal:

For most of the past two centuries, the Left has been identified with science and against obscurantism; we have believed that rational thought and the fearless analysis of objective reality (both natural and social) are incisive tools for combating the mystifications promoted by the powerful -- not to mention being desirable human ends in their own right. The recent turn of many "progressive" or "leftist" academic humanists and social scientists toward one or another form of epistemic relativism betrays this worthy heritage... ``the social construction of reality'' won't help us find an effective treatment for AIDS...

Need I say more?