That’s why I can’t afford to be outed. Somebody might look up my thesis. Hey, when I was 21, thymine dimers were thought to be cute! Fortunately, I have one card to play when the oppo researchers come around:

“Psssst! The thesis next to it is full of DIRTY WORDS!”
Then while the’re cataloguing the dirty words, I run out with my thesis, calling back,
Ego pedicabo vos et irrumabo! When they run into the translation of that line by one of Rome’s finest poets, they’ll know what dirty is.

Not snark; genuine question. I thought it was standard.

Libertarians are like babies — if they didn’t do something adorable occasionally, they’d never live to grow up.

As for W’s history thesis… I used to work in a Third World specialty branch at a midwestern college library. The Yale special librarians were treated with great suspicion by most of their peers, because it was widely believed that Yale’s history and social science departments were simply recruiting stations for the CIA. Don’t know how true that may have been, either before or after the 1980s, but librarians are not by nature the most politically rigorous individuals and yet I kept hearing that ‘rumor’.

When that flap was going on over the UAE Dubai Ports thing, I looked up who was on the board of directors of the company; one member was a British dude named Michael Moore.

Not unless the employer agrees to the closed shop without the coercion inherent in law. That’s what I meant when I said libertarians are fine with unions sans coercion; law = coercion. If the employer agrees to a closed shop, then you are correct that that is up to the employer and not the aspirant to a job — but it is not up to the state to coerce such a requirement.

One of my brothers has a really high security clearance, but I think he keeps it by only speaking to me once or twice a year, and then it’s usually only to yell at one another about politics and upset my mother. And I haven’t been politically ‘radical’ since 1972.

I think they’re reaching on the HRC thesis, of course, since most of the voting public has no idea who the hell Alinsky was, anyway.

Seriously, there’s nothing else they can dig up (or make up) about the Clintons. That well is dry.

And if they try to rehash all the old stuff, well, all I can say is, way to lose viewers/readers, journalmalism peeps.

Knock yerselves out, while we’re busy trying to get real Democrats elected.

I think we’ve finally reached the point where Teh Stupid is working in our favor. Everyone can see it, everyone knows it’s Teh Stupid, and no one wants to be Teh Stupid any more. Except the winguts and the press.

Go for it, dudes!

On that note, has the consumer advocate David Horowitz ever taken legal action against Crazy Davey for making his name a laughingstock? About a decade ago in Canada, there was an Ontario lawyer named Doug Christie that sued the notorious British Columbia white-supremacist-defender lawyer of the same name for ruining his reputation. However, the courts told him simply to start using his middle initial as to avoid confusion.

I’ve often wondered if British beer- and single-malt expert Michael Jackson has the same problem. I presume that being British, white, sixty-ish, and bearded makes this somewhat less of an issue.

In my over-the-hill thesis, I submit that if Hillary Clinton is Alinsky’s Daughter for talking to him and agreeing with the notion of democracy while disagreeing with his agitprop, then Republican political strategists are Alinsky’s Bastards for using agitprop to empower the powerful.

BTW, I was a theater arts major with a costume emphasis. Not only no thesis, but practically no books, either. It was lots of fun and I have a B.A.

When I hear another inane crack about Obama or Hillary now, I immediately start loudly scoffing at the GOP 2008 lineup of Presidential cartoon characters:

McCain? You can’t be serious. Giuliani? You kiddin’ me, right? Mitt Romney? Bwahaha!

Don’t get too complacent. If you’ll recall, this was exactly the attitude that greeted Dumbya when it became apparent that he’d be the Rethuglican nominee. People said, “Gore will *steamroll* him!” They said that almost until – YOINK! – the Supremes handed it to Shrubbo. And, those Supremes are even *more* right-wing than they were in 2000.

Oh yeah, when I was twenty-one, I discovered sex.

When I was twenty-seven, I discovered partners.

These pernicious anti-alive jokes really must cease. Why do you hate the living?

And if you think that joke was lame, be glad I didn’t run with my “the sixties must have been great for you” joke. That would have been truly offensive.

Kingubu, yes, Jello Biafra good. All dead Kennedys good. Live Kennedys bad.

judeanpeoplesfront, Pablo never did get called an asshole. Not like you…

but i woke up this morning face down in the sand, and these tiny crabs were picking things from my teeth, and my strawman was nowhere to be found. and my bum is kinda sore. do you remember what happened?

Well, honey, them’s the risks you take down south. You sat on a teeny tiny blue-ringed octopus, y’see, and they’re tres poisonous. I was going to suck the poison out, then I thought…naaaah, got some crunchy fish treats waiting for me at home. So I split.

Still got your strawman, though. It’s in the litter tray when you need it.

Nah, not a bit. That shit’s funny. Feigned outrage at being the “All Ur Bases Are Belong To Us” guy du jour, you know?

kingubu: I hope you don’t think my juvenile riffing means I didn’t think the point of your mall scenario comment was a good one.