university PR flack: are you sure you want to use the phrase famously associated with segregationists resisting the Civil Rights movement
university admin: yes
flack: but...
admin: say "outside agitators" or you're fired ...
Does the job interview process for being a salaried op-ed columnist consist of anything other than a brief conversation about who your parents are followed by an icepick lobotomy, or ...
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Trump seems to be trying very hard to get jailed for contempt to start “the uprising“ and while nothing can truly fix this country’s deeply broken politics, I think it could be useful to demonstrate that in fact nothing would happen.
He's been openly begging people to rally to his cause for weeks now and it's having zero impact. This is the "finding out" era for the consequences of building a base out of everyone in America who gets back into their car and drives if they have to go from one side of a parking lot to another. ...
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I wonder if it's worth reevaluating the common belief among our political and media elites that this guy is some kind of demagogic force of nature that can't be challenged or punished in light of the fact that he's openly soliciting people to come to his defense and nobody showed up.
"No, we can't make them angry, there'll be bloodshed in the streets!" Buddy what if they don't actually care enough to get off their ass and all they're going to do is bitch online. ...
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As uncommon as it is for incarcerated people to make endorsements, Sirhan Sirhan has the chance to do the funniest goddamn thing in the history of politics right now ...
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Nan says:
One assumes Vitter keeps his weapon tucked safely in his diaper.
I'd like to see those flaming hypocrites also start taking piss tests for drugs as part of being able to hold on to their jobs. They want the rest of us to do it just to hold down a minimum wage job at Walmart, but won't pee in a cup themselves.
Mrs. Chili says:
Really? Is this even a question? We all KNOW that Congress is a "do as I say, not as I do" institution. They're all for term limits and salary caps and universal health care (and, as you point out, a completely irrational reading of the Second Amendment), as long as those things don't apply to them (well, except for the gold-standard health care thing…)
Flaming hypocrites, indeed.
jazzbumpa says:
That's right. I say, keep the guns in the C & W bars, where they belong.
Nick says:
Missing the point a bit, isn't it? The whole reason pro-gun people want to be allowed to carry on campus is because campuses are NOT secured facilities.
If it were feasible (or desirable) to put metal detectors and armed guards at the entrance to a college campus, then I'd be just fine with restrictions on concealed carry. Until then, however, I see no reason why someone who has passed a background check and concealed carry class, and is legally allowed to carry a firearm across the street from a college campus, should be a criminal if he/she carries one onto campus.
oldfatherwilliam says:
Nick misses the point. Campuses are not the issue. Buildings and classrooms are the issue. That's certainly feasible, and it can be imagined that discard and retrieve rooms could be placed at every entrance so that paranoics could scurry between them fully armed.
Prudence says:
I love the concept in abstract, but I'm a DC resident and frankly, the idea of Michele Batshit Bachmann with a gun fills me with horror. There are bats in her belfry, bats with rabies and plague.