Once in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, on a forum some right winger looked in my personal profile, and seeing my .edu email address, posted something snide about "intellectuals" and "college types", and suggested we go to Iraq if we thought so much more of it than we did our own country. I suggested in return that when the wingers were done deporting all peacenicks and intellectuals to Iraq, they might import Iraq's warmongers and religious fanatics to the states, and then Iraq would be America and America would be Iraq. Okay, it wasn't a great retort, but honestly, I wonder what the pride is in being ignorant and uneducated.
This from Maru today:
'A vandal spray painted in blue paint "
Libural!" on a window at Sen. Lisa Murkowski's campaign headquarters on Northern Lights Boulevard, her campaign said Thursday.'
And for any of you who feel you have just met a compatriot, try to remember that some people with educational institute url's/email addresses just
work there, so it won't always pan out to assume that they are "intellectuals".
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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