Now try to imagine what the equivalent from Romney would read like.
The footnotes are outstanding. The overuse of "folks" has pushed me from undecided into the Romney camp.
Funny, but not actually written by Obama (according to the NY Times in 2007).
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html?pagewanted=all
Oh my god. Does anyone know who killed her? That's awful!
5: That's enormously shocking. (It seems like there was a lot of shockingly callous wingnut "humor" in the early 90s, à la Dartmouth Review. Horrid.)
I hadn't heard about 5 before. Note that one of the participants (Paul Clement) is arguably the most prominent right-wing lawyer in the United States.
Or, actually, looking further and reading more carefully, it seems that Clement wasn't personally connected to the article, or at least able to keep his hands clean concerning it.
Apparently there was a really toxic decade or two at HLS. But yeah, that incident remains shocking and almost unbelievable.
But -- and some people forget this? -- Dershowitz was a fucking cock well before 9/11. Scumbag.
Knock it off, kids, or Alan Dershowitz is going to get your tenure denied.
I can think of few people more despicable than Dershowitz, but man, F/nk-lste/n is gaping asshole.
I can spell words I invent how I want.
4: That's too bad. I liked the idea that he had written it. (P.S. Awesome fact-checking, HuffPo.)
17: Based on what? He's on the right side of history. That counts for a hell of a lot more than sops to academic politesse.
"Assholes that oppose Dershowitz do not gape", as Goldwater said.
That's too bad. I liked the idea that he had written it.
Yeah. It seemed like further evidence that despite my lukewarm feelings about his politics, he's just a ridiculously likable guy for a politician.
And 5 is the worst thing ever. Holy shit.
Actually, neb (or someone else with the keys to the blog), if you're paying attention, do you mind deleting that last comment of mind and maybe google-proofing the earlier one? I don't want this fight right now, nor the fights that are likely to result from someone googling around and finding this thread at a later date.
(It seems like there was a lot of shockingly callous wingnut "humor" in the early 90s, à la Dartmouth Review.
Really, is this a thing that's now over? I was there through plenty of that review bullying and hadn't realized it had ebbed.
29: Oh, gosh, I guess I have no idea! The national news media no longer makes me know anything about it, which is good, I guess.
Yeah, I don't really care about F/D battles that much. I just bought my first copy of EF! Journal in several years yesterday. I am feeling very misanthropic right now. More people should be out standing in the way of ecological destruction. Little tiffs between academics are irrelevant to that.
I am feeling very misanthropic right now.
I assume you're evilly hung over from drinking to the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti yesterday.
Compared to the condition of the Earth's environment, what's a couple of Italians more or less.
32: I try to concentrate most of my maudlin martyr-worship in November, with a little bit spilling into December for John Brown. I was down the pub last night, hanging out with my friend/ex who's getting married in a few weeks, but I was fairly moderate in my drinking.
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So one of my math majors said to me last night "I might be late tomorrow morning - there's a guy from the Vikings who wants to meet with me at 8 am and I don't know how long he needs." I had no idea what he meant. I know he's interested in coding and cryptography, but I couldn't think of any NSA meaning to the word "Vikings".
I guess I was doing the confused-puppy-head-cocked pose because he said "a guy from the Cowboys was here earlier in the week."
Apparently at this morning's meeting, they were scoping him out for good character - "If I took your cell phone from you right this second, what would the background image be?" "Were you raised to kill on the football field?" "Have you ever been part of a dog fight?" My super sweet nerdy student was like "I have a puppy?"
I am so confused that anyone from a professional football team is doing anything with anyone from Heebie U, let alone a double CS-Math major nerd. They said if he has another good season, they'll start flying him up for some trial training sessions to see how he does.
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Tell him to run if they ask him if he likes gladiator movies.
"The background image on my cell phone is of me killing my puppy on a football field just like daddy raised me to do. To the puppy's credit he put up a good fight. So, yes and yes"
They asked him questions that he was too embarrassed to quote to his friends at the end of class today, which I assume were about strippers and stuff. He is definitely a good Christian kid, but also just a totally likable math nerd.
Reading further, I see he's our kicker, and made [a lot] kicks in the 50-59 yard range last year. That must be good?
Made [a lot] in the 40-49 yard range, too.
I am unbelievably charmed and amused by this secret life of his.
There's nothing in the NFL rule book that says the kicker can't be a mule math major.
42: He can follow in the footsteps of Frank Ryan who was QB For the Browns during a good chunk of my childhood. Ryan is best remembered for being perhaps the only Ph.D. in mathematics to play in the league, completing a doctorate at Rice University.
Ryan attended graduate school during the first part of his playing career, and in 1965, he earned his Ph.D. from Rice. His thesis was titled, "Characterization of the Set of Asymptotic Values of a Function Holomorphic in the Unit Disc." He started teaching at Rice during his career and, during his time with the Browns, held a position as an assistant professor at the Case Institute of Technology, teaching undergraduate courses and conducting research in complex analysis.
I am unbelievably charmed and amused by this secret life of his.
Secret? What, does he have a nom de plume on his jersey? And wear a Zorro-type mask under his helmet?
45: Only a math professor would think that being a star kicker at a school in Texas is secret.
I have this notion that the ranks of NFL kickers are relatively full of delightfully nerdly types. I am not sure where I got that idea, though.
You have one of only [some] finalists for [redacted] AWARD in your class, and you don't even know about it?
[redacted]. Also, I have never heard of any of the other colleges in your college's football conference.
Good luck to the kid. Looking at two examples I know about, it's hard for even a very good kicker from a small school to break in: Dan Carpenter (now with the Dolphins) went undrafted, despite his exceptional Griz career, and Jan Stenerud, in another era, joined the AFL after being a standout Bobcat.
[And I see he was drafted by an NFL team after all]
I'm going to redact 48, sorry. Perhaps I should clean up 38 and 39, too - is that identifyingly specific?
But, yeah, 48 was really identifying.
38/39/what's left of 48 is enough to figure out who the kid is, BTW. I'm just a random stranger on the internet but I think that leaves me pretty close to being able to figure out who HBGB is...
I just worked it out! HBGB is George W. Bush!
Yeah, nice diversion tactic. We all know which commenter George W. Bush is.
But he's probably a lurker --GWB is just another bored dude with Internet access these days.
Hmmm. I'll redact some more. THANKS, 38/39. Jerk.
Among the not-so-funny wisecracks and what I presume to be inside jokes, the most amusing thing was how the writer(s) seem to find such glee in the footnotes, as if the system of legal citation/blue-booking is just an endless source of hilarity itself. Because a lot of the footnotes aren't otherwise all that funny. But then, I'm just a crank with a chip on my shoulder and a need to put down Harvard Law Review staff.
Re: bluebooking "jokes": I think it's one of those "laugh, because the alternative is crying" situations.
We all know which commenter George W. Bush is.
He might be more than one commenter. When urple first appeared I thought for months that he was probably two guys called Ed and Lou.