Ahem. Speaking as an ex-mathematician, I can honestly say that politics never entered into our departments, except insofar as it related to dastardly plans by that evil administration to defraud honest mathematicians of their deserved livelihood, and the struggle between Pure and Applied (Stats, being so small a department, just trailed along behind).
I.e. departmental politics completely eclipsed any other variant of politics.

Also also, viz the pretendy commenter, I recommend asking a drunk mathematician about psychologists one day – it’ll be educational, provided you bring a raincoat to protect you from the spittle. In my day, at least, psych students (and many psych academics) were despised for not understanding the minor statistical tools they used to ‘prove’ things, and hence making a lot of grand an insupportable claims.

In closing: Mikey, it’s grand to see you back again!

Reproduced for pure AWESOME.

Either that, or else he’s far more self-aware than we’re giving him credit for.

“I have a three inch penis and masturbate to pictures of Ayn Rand, Leni Riefenstahl and Eleanor Roosevelt…hey, a babe’s a babe!…using tweezers.”

Not at all. As has been suggested by more fabulous people than my own self, you just need to gay it up a little. “No, no, we don’t want marriage; we want mariage.” (Pronounced marry-AHGE with a big dramatic rise on the second syllable.)

Listen to five minutes of Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly. Compare their “reasoning” to 5 minutes of NPR (which is not “liberal”, just not conservative).
Or read Jonah Goldberg or Bill Kristol and compare their assertions to Glenn Greenwald or Digby.

Or compare Sarah Palin to Janet Napolitano (both Western female governors although Napolitano now runs Homeland Security).

It’s like the difference between a kindergarten coloring book and a college level physics text.

There is no irrational, groundless, factless, non-researched claim too outrageous to be declaimed by the top honchos in the conservative world- led by their god, Rush Limbaugh, before whom all must (and have) bow down.

There is no cow too sacred to be analyzed and questioned by the “non-conservative” media. With lots of relevant, cogent, facts.

One typical example: “Barack Hussein Obama is a Socialist. He wants to pal around with terrorists. His birth certificate is a fake.” blah, blah, blah.
That’s the right wing approach to “criticism.”

The non conservatives analyzed the legal arguments made by Justice Department Attorneys, compared statements made by Obama on the campaign trail with those in office on issues like State Secrets claims by the government, gays in the military, and closing GITMO. Facts, logical analysis, reading the words in court decisions and in the Constitution. Citing historical precedent. Being rooted in the real.

Conservatives worry that terrorists from GITMO will somehow get loose and wreak havoc on the U.S. if they are transferred to U.S. prisons.
Non-conservatives note that we have somehow managed to try dozens of terrorists in federal courts in the U.S. and effectively (without a single escape) imprisoned the guilty.

In other words: conservatives = fantasy. Non-conservatives = reality.

You can use the word stupid if you want. I prefer cowardly, nervous, hateful, and delusional.

Looking forward to Michael Steele explaining why the most patriotic form of direct action Americans can perform in these troubling times is cracking yourself in the forehead with a hammer while huffing glue.

“I couldn’t resist the temptation to brag about my score, so I’ll make myself look like a perfect fool. Despite what I would have been taught in those psychometrics classes, I apparently still don’t understand that many exceptions can exist in a body of data that nevertheless demonstrates a significant statistical correlation.”

More proof — if it was needed — that high standardized IQ does NOT equal “smart.”

You’re looking in the wrong country.

Yep. Conservative Broads are a serious problem. I offer the malkin thing and pam’s tits as objective data, and remind you that the plural of anecdote is data….

mikey