How do you define the left-wing fringe?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Brendan cracks me up.
You don’t see me as fringe do you? I think i’m pretty normal, and i’m totally invested in society: mortgage, salary job, etc. Good call to Cantor though, eh?
To me left wing fringe are the people who tell me that “property is theft” and that the only solution to america’s problems are a full-scale violent revolution and we’ll just set up new systems ourselves and live off the land in anarcho-hippy-weonderland. You’d be surprised how many people believe that.
And my response is always, “hello, I live in PHILADELPHIA. Where the fuck do you plan to put the farms? How are you going to generate heat for the winter? How will you keep the city safe?” And that’s usually answered with some arcane chapter from “Das Kapital” which never seems to end.
That’s left wing fringe. Me, i just demand a lot.
I just posted the link here because it is an open thread.
whew!
My reputation for temperance and conservativism is preserved!
[giggle]
Great call, do you record audio?
i never record audio because I’m worried about getting busted for wiretapping. we don’t all get to work for AT&T!
word on the street is Hilda Solis will be advanced to the full Senate for Labor Secretary by committee vote at 3pm Eastern
still waiting… but apparently Enzi (who was holding things up) agreed to let the nomination advance to the floor.
Vote passed. Only two Republicans voted no. Nomination advances to full Senate
Apparently the Conference Committee has reached a deal on the stimulus bill.
Uh, I guess that would be me…
g.
I believe it’s on top of my Surrey..
I think anyone who calls themselves “a bed-wetting Liberal”–whatever that means, might be on the fringe.
I am the farthest fringiest that I think I can get away with while still sounding sane. It gives you all a chance to seem almost norml* in comparison…
*Not a typo… lol jk
out-organized by their counterparts on the right
That would be Tribbers.
I just finished President Gerald Ford’s A Time To Heal, his autobiography. Very interesting. Remarkable, actually. Color me impressed.
i found this to be bit surreal..
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/11/18/rich-cut-back-on-payments-to-mistresses/
Here’s another related story…
Ah, the travails of the privileged.
This incoming search at the site made me chuckle – check link, read search terms and note top (non-commercial) hit:
how to wank man
Booman the Wank-Master!
Jon Yoo,
has not raised too many eyebrows since coming to Chapman University, as a visiting professor. Chapman University, a relatively new law university, is located in conservative OC,(Orange County, Ca. like the TV show ) & some of the students appreciate his being there, since bad publicity is publicity, nonetheless.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-yoo11-2009feb11,0,7413410.story
Correction, [ John ] Yoo, or fuck Yoo, but not Jon Yoo.