I live in Berkeley. I often find I am quite happily provincial here inside the dome.

David R.

Finally, Lo, someone gets one of my jokes. I didn't know about the airplane hunting issue. I'm not worried about the brown bears. They're just everywhere in SE Alaska, and it wouldn't hurt for there to be a strictly controlled harvest to put the fear of man into those big fellows. For the record, I have a lot of backcountry experience in Bearville. I respect and fear bruins, and I think they are delicious. In North Dakota, no motorized vehicle can be employed in the pursuit of game. One can only drive off road to set decoys. Big game must be carried out, that's right, carried. I fully support my state's restrictions.

I am impressed by the speech, which my left-wing soul sister, Camille Paglia, called the best speech by a woman politician of my lifetime. Well, Camille, cara mia, have you forgotten Margaret Thatcher? There is a significant chance here, colleagues, that we are discussing the first woman president of the United States.

David, I interpret this

quote:
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Originally posted by Daniel Haar:
I can promise you I will defer to the collective decision of the nation and accept whichever ticket wins as the new president and vice-president.
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as implying that voters accept election results and accept a peaceful shifting of the power until the next election. That doesn't mean loving the new leader or not working as opposition. It has nothing to do (in my wee mind anyway) with kow-towing).

This is not to put words in Daniel's mouth, but to clarify my own standpoint expressed earlier.

Janice,

I get what you are saying, I actually did understand Dan's comment that way at first. I just think a better word than "defer" could have been used. But, I am probably just overreacting.

David R.

Is that another joke, Tim? Paglia strikes me as left-wing in the same way a professional wrestler is a wrestler.

In any case, she has often made idiotic pronouncements for sensational effect, and I think this is one of them.

David R.

Paglia is an academic, and in the cosmology of the Right, all academics are left-wing. Ergo, Paglia is a Leftist.

Didn't you get the memo?

Kevin

We get so many such memos here in Berkeley, I lose track. I thought the same was true in SJ. Kevin, have you been outside the dome?!?!

David R.

PS -- Paglia strikes me as about as academic as she is left-wing.

Don't tell Mark.

n/m

[This message has been edited by Dan Halberstein (edited August 31, 2008).]