Nothing rings my Schadenfreude chimes louder than a tale of a trendy-liberal professor teaching at a fancy college getting…royally hosed by another trendy-liberal professor teaching at a fancy college. Especially when the scene of the liberal-on-liberal hosing is California, home of likely the most trendy-liberal legal system in the country.

Here is what happened, as reported in Mother Jones (of all places): In January 2016 Elizabeth Abel, a longtime English professor at the University of California-Berkeley about to embark on sabbatical, rented out her home in Kensington, an affluent suburb in the hills just above the UC campus, to David Peritz, who teaches political science at Sarah Lawrence, the elite liberal-arts college just outside New York City. Abel had found Peritz via SabbaticalHomes, an Airbnb-style sharing-economy website designed for academics. “A Place for Minds on the Move” is its motto.