And a cake! A cake would be great...
The party seems to be fizzling out:
On college campuses across America this week, conservatives are gathering together to listen to right-wing luminaries such as Ann Coulter and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) as part of David Horowitz’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.
Horowitz is claiming that it will be “the biggest conservative campus protest ever” and “a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses” about “the enemy.” But on CSPAN’s Washington Journal this weekend, Kareem Shora, the Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, said that Horowitz was dramatically overstating the number of participating schools:
We contacted those institutions, alerting them to the fact that their name was being used, and wondering what exactly was taking place. … It’s important to note though, after we contacted those institutions, most of those institutions indicated that no such events is taking place on those campus. And many contacted the sponsors and told them, “do not use my institution’s name in your campaign,” including some very renowned universities such as Yale and Princeton.
Shora also said that the president of Liberty University, the evangelical school founded by Jerry Falwell, also had their name removed from Horowitz’s list.
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So in reality, conservatives are not-gathering to not-listen to those non-luminaries.
I am reminded of my only act of political vandalism ever, which I performed in my college days...
While most political vandalism these days is on the order of unimaginatively pulling up opponents' yard signs a couple of days before elections, mine was directed against an intended huge meeting of conservative activists. All over campus were small signs reading "Young Americans for Freedom," a right-wing group of the day. At least that's what the signs read before I modified them with handmade letters and Scotch tape; then they read, "Young Americans for Free Dope" ... The signs came down in less than a day, and the meeting made no big splash.
Did I miss my calling? should I have become the lefty equivalent of Karl Rove? or was that the dumbfsckingest thing I ever did?
You missed your calling. You could have been a Rovarian master of quips and quibbles, devastating hapless opponents with razorsharp puns and paradoxes:
A paradox,
A most ingenious paradox!
We’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
But none to beat this paradox!
....
We knew your taste for curious quips,
For cranks and contradictions queer;
And with the laughter on our lips,
We wished you there to hear.
We said, "If we could tell it him,
How Frederic would the joke enjoy!"
And so we’ve risked both life and limb
To tell it to our boy.
How quaint the ways of Paradox!
At common sense she gaily mocks!
(Borland Inc. must have forgotten that couplet when they named their database product two decades ago and quoted "A most ingenious Paradox" near the front of the manual.)
Dammit. Now I've got the song stuck in my head. It boomeranged back!
Bwahahahaha!
Arrrggghh!
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