Too late to do Donna Edwards any good.
Unsurprisingly, many white men who would rather gnaw off a forearm than actually run for office themselves are really upset about having to hear someone suggest that more white men are not needed.
2 makes it really tempting to go around telling them they're not even WANTED either.
2, 3 - I mean, it is a little mean. We have feelings too!
(rolls eyes so hard they fall out of head)
4: But I thought you planned to establish Tigrismo by fire and sword! Can You Not PAC says nothing about fire and sword!
Will this give me an iron-clad reason not to volunteer at the PTA?
You still have to volunteer. You just can't be in a position to tell anyone else what to do.
Get to baking those cupcakes for the bake sale, peon!
2: Well, I, for one, am grateful for a fresh excuse for my ongoing failure.
Oh, cmon the obvious adult problem with a dichotomy of white dudes vs everybody else is that it does not differentiate within among between the non-whitedudes.
Sanders "the privileged white dude" vs Clinton "not a white dude" entirely and deliberately misses the point.
Too many white dudes is a problem, but I would contend it is not the primary, most important, or urgent current problem, at least for some aggregation of Americans. Nor do I believe that fewer privileged white dudes will solve many problems, but this is arguable
I prefer: "Too many rich fucks" but this is apparently not amusing or uncritically identity enhancing enough.
I suspect the problem with those in the link is that they don't even see people outside their class, so the only apparent privileges are those of race and gender.
If the Internet can be trusted, the world is turning into a motley quilt--patched here with Hampshire College, there with Bartertown.
I've seen one reference to this before, from someone on Facebook extremely excited about electing this TED-style lady to replace the extremely progressive Democrat Jared Huffman in the current Democratic primary in the extremely Democratic CA-2 seat. Megan should know if that's a cause worth supporting or not. Maybe it is.
To me this website looks like when people in high school got all excited about signing their Baptist youth group's pledge to never become gay punk-rock crack whores. The people pledging are obviously the people who were never going to do it anyway.
I will always remember with fondness looking at the group photo of the CA sup ct with my (white male, not straight) mentor and having him say it was about time no one looked like him. 😊
14: Totally. Let's not bother doing anything ever again.
I don't know a thing about Ms. Schrode, but I do know that Huffman is extremely knowledgeable about water. He fights the good fight, deep in the details.
And also that someone on his staff has lurked here for years and knows me better from the comments here than from my own blogs.
Frontpagers, I may ask you to delete that because it isn't mine to tell. But the locals might enjoy it for a little while.
14.2: You are so wrong.
I believe most non-crack-whores would willingly, and could credibly, pledge to avoid becoming crack whores. This I believe.
Anyone can PLEDGE not to become anything. That's why you make people back up their expectations with charity-donation bets, right?
I will bet anyone here $5 that they do not become a crack whore within the next six months. It's all upside for you -- if you lose the bet, you are not a crack whore. If you win, you are a crack whore and could use $5.
Given my betting record here, this is kind of like forcing members of the Unfogged community into crack whoredom. But still.
You're a lawyer, El Tigre, and I expect better from you. Like, if I have sex in exchange for money to buy crack only once, does that make me a crack whore and win me the bet? Because, like King Harold the Bridgebuilder, I think that's a pretty good deal.
For five bucks, you call that a good deal? I'm not calling you easy...
No, wait, I totally am.
What started-as-a-joke PAC ran into trouble because they weren't ready for campaign finance compliance rules? Colbert? Or am I thinking of Lessig's ended-as-a-joke campaign?
Having sex for money makes someone a prostitute even if the money they're doing it for is coming from a third party like Tigre right?
You'd just need to find a way to get crack involved in the sex and the bet would pay for itself.
30.1: If that were true, the entire porn industry would be prostitution, no?
I'm not sure if the law is the best places to go when looking for prostitution. At one point I think there was some semi-ha-ha-but-no prostitution service that tried to go with "no we're just a production company that facilitates your making a porno with this actress who you have to pay". I'm not sure how that turned out but I'm guessing it fell apart on grounds of being obvious bullshit.
The old "I'm not a crack whore because I was on camera" defense.
32: From some tweets I've read, I think that's a perennial broscheme that informed performers look for the signs of.
do not become a crack whore within the next six months
Wait, I have to start within the next six months?
Goddammit.
Maybe porn industry not prostitution bc both/all participants paid?
Porn isn't prostitution because it's protected by the first amendment.
Colbert's superpac had no compliance issues, because he hired the lawyer who dealt with these issues for John McCain's campaign.
I must be thinking of Mayday PAC. Looking around, they seem to have been accused of more serious problems than they really had.
I endorse this. Claiming the moral high ground for doing nothing appeals both to my self righteousness and my laziness. Thanks Obama!
signing their Baptist youth group's pledge to never become gay punk-rock crack whores
That doesn't sound like a very relaxing lifestyle compared to being a gay smooth jazz crack whore.
I'll stick with my current career path of heterosexual chamber music Bordeaux gigolo.
Nice at least that NC's HB2 elevated this issue: the CA Assembly has voted overwhelmingly for all single-occupancy restrooms in public buildings to be designated for all genders.