Bill Savage is a lecturer and second-rate dork in the Department of English at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ilinois. He explains how he had himself sexually altered in order to devote his efforts full time to the political-reassignment of genetically predisposed offspring of “red state” Republicans.
I don’t need to have kids to create mini-me voters: I get classrooms full of other people’s kids, most already of voting age. And I’m not alone. As right-wing hysterics have recently noticed, universities in America are dominated by lefties like me. I suspect the main reason for this is that most academics I know are willing to forego making a big pile of money in order to, you know, think for a living.
You see, I read “Lessons Learned:� Red States May Be Outbreeding Blue States, but Blue Cities-Particularly Blue College Towns-Can Help Turn the Tide,” by the afore mentioned lecturer and conclude “dork” pretty much covers things. It’s no wonder that so many of my posts are short.
In contrast, over at Protein Wisdom, you can almost hear Goldstein gunning his vocabulary. (I believe Jeff too, may have taught English. If true, his savaging of Savage may be be more a linguistic dick measuring contest[1] than a legitimate fisking) .
He translates this portion;
(Right-wingers prefer the professions where you make big piles of money by thinking about offshoring red-state manufacturing jobs to Red China.)
Translation: “I put that last bit of cliched Rethuglican bashing in a parenthetical to show that I’m not really all that committed to it; after all, the last thing I want to do is follow up a pronouncement on my intellectual superiority with such a lazy rehashing of anti-corporate talking points.� Unless it’s in parentheticals, I mean.� Because that shows that I know it’s an intellectually lazy rehashing, and self-conscious irony is, of course, the greatest measure of intelligence.”
You see? Now, I didn’t even notice the parentheticals, much less linger on the subliminals and ironies.
Either way, Jeff wins. Figuratively, of course. There’s no way to know, really, though he’s made claims.
Footnote;
I put that in parentheticals to indicate that I’m not really committed to it; but that no opportunity for the gratuitous use[1] of the word “dick” should be wasted and the delicious irony is that I’m not above admitting that.
Footnote Footnotes;
[1] I originally chose the word “insertion” but thought better of it.
