William Ayers' appearance last night at All Souls Unitarian Church last night has been well-covered---today's Post has a thorough accounting of Ayers' day in D.C., as does the Wall Street Journal. Neither story, though, mentions the biggest noise the audience made during the evening. When Jeff Smith, executive director of DC Voice and moderator for the evening, asked Ayers an audience member's question about the DCPS, the mention of Michelle Rhee's name evoked a prolonged hiss from the audience. Ayers is a scholar of public education, and though he professed ignorance of Rhee and the DCPS, he's not so big on Teach for America, of which Rhee is an alum. He described TFA as a "mixed blessing," arguing that its method of alternative teacher certification has a built-in classist subtext: that teachers in low-income school districts aren't qualified, requiring well-heeled college grads to be brought in to fix things.

If the sanctuary was largely filled with people concerned about the state of public education, the sidewalk outside the church was filled with folks who aren't letting go of Ayers' connection to the Weather Underground. Raoul Deming, a bearded, middle-aged man who drove to the event from Philadelphia, held up a sign reading, "AYERS LIED PEOPLE DIED NO JUSTICE NO PEACE." The end of the election cycle hasn't lessened his anger at Ayers' attachment to terrorist activity. "These people killed people," he says.

Conservative rageblog the Jawa Report has footage of Deming and a few other protesters in front of the church:

William Ayers, favorite punching bag of rageoholic conservative bloggers, isn't reading at the 14th & V Busboys & Poets tonight as planned. The bookstore just sent an e-mail blast:

Due to the large number of people and media who want to attend the event with William Ayers, we have moved it to a venue that can accommodate a larger audience. It will be held at: All Souls Church, 1500 Harvard Street NW, Washington, DC 20009. The entrance is on Harvard between 15th and 16th. Street parking is available and it is walking distance from the Columbia Heights Metro.

The reading starts at 6:30 p.m. Should be interesting to see how much heckling takes place in a church...

Lots of chatter this week in newspapers and blogs about the news that William Ayers will speak at Busboys & Poets on Monday. Nobody really took much notice of this when I blogged about it about a month back. Clearly I need to take more swigs of whatever Michelle Malkin's drinking:

The violence-embracing Marxist is on the lecture and media circuit, hawking his repackaged memoir, promoting a new book on race, and basking in all the post-Obama victory attention.

While pondering the idea of how glorious it must feel to bask in all the attention you'll get at a reading at Busboys & Poets---on a Monday night!---scroll through the comments of Malkin's post, which ponders shooting Ayers for treason or bombing his house. Must be part of that Republican party-rebuilding effort I've been hearing about.