UCSB: UPCOMING EVENTS, AND OUR SILLY LIBERALS
Coming to UCSB Arts&Lectures: The good, the bad, and the tall!
Sunday, April 25th: Karen Hughes. I'll be in the Bay Area this weekend, so I wont get the chance to think of some creative way to heckle this.
Wednesday, April 28th: Eric Schlosser. You know, of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness fame. I'm there, man.
But now, let's talk about the hijinks of UCSB liberals.
Our liberals are so cute! We're as well-informed as those of any other campus community, yet with half the self-importance of certain other liberal campus communities I could name.
That being said,
Whlie well-intentioned, our liberals can do silly things.
On kiosks all over campus (we don't have a central "dump your papers here" spot, given how bike-centric UCSB is), there are flyers informing students of the upcoming Karen Hughes appearance. As I'm sure you know, Karen Hughes is and has been a longtime friend and personal/political advisor to one George W Bush, serving as his "communications director" while he was both governor and president. She, more than any other person surrounding Dubya, would walk through walls for him. Naturally, such skills require certain personal traits, such as a tendency to take leave of the truth at times. She's got that.
In that regard, some happy UCSB liberals have taken big red markers and scribbled "LIAR" across the flyers. And given the evidence, that's a reasonably fair charge.
But our youngsters went too far. On another flyer I saw on the way into the computer lab, was scribbled: "WAR CRIMINAL". Look, I understand where you're coming from. I don't like Karen Hughes all that much either. But ain't nobody gonna be setting up no ICC tribunal for her. Singling out Karen Hughes as a "war criminal" isn't going to help much of anything. It's this sort of thing going to get us a reputation for being nonsensically sensationalist? We still have a chance guys, cmon!
Full disclosure: While having nothing to do with big red markers, I am a UCSB liberal, damnit.
Coming to UCSB Arts&Lectures: The good, the bad, and the tall!
Sunday, April 25th: Karen Hughes. I'll be in the Bay Area this weekend, so I wont get the chance to think of some creative way to heckle this.
Wednesday, April 28th: Eric Schlosser. You know, of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness fame. I'm there, man.
But now, let's talk about the hijinks of UCSB liberals.
Our liberals are so cute! We're as well-informed as those of any other campus community, yet with half the self-importance of certain other liberal campus communities I could name.
That being said,
Whlie well-intentioned, our liberals can do silly things.
On kiosks all over campus (we don't have a central "dump your papers here" spot, given how bike-centric UCSB is), there are flyers informing students of the upcoming Karen Hughes appearance. As I'm sure you know, Karen Hughes is and has been a longtime friend and personal/political advisor to one George W Bush, serving as his "communications director" while he was both governor and president. She, more than any other person surrounding Dubya, would walk through walls for him. Naturally, such skills require certain personal traits, such as a tendency to take leave of the truth at times. She's got that.
In that regard, some happy UCSB liberals have taken big red markers and scribbled "LIAR" across the flyers. And given the evidence, that's a reasonably fair charge.
But our youngsters went too far. On another flyer I saw on the way into the computer lab, was scribbled: "WAR CRIMINAL". Look, I understand where you're coming from. I don't like Karen Hughes all that much either. But ain't nobody gonna be setting up no ICC tribunal for her. Singling out Karen Hughes as a "war criminal" isn't going to help much of anything. It's this sort of thing going to get us a reputation for being nonsensically sensationalist? We still have a chance guys, cmon!
Full disclosure: While having nothing to do with big red markers, I am a UCSB liberal, damnit.
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