"Having a dream is no excuse for accepting an onerous status quo and waiting passively on ''someday'' to make things right. A dream is not an excuse. It's a responsibility."
- Leonard Pitts Jr.
Monday, March 26, 2007
You Elected Him, Texas
Senator John Cornyn, (R) Texas, is on the floor of the Senate right now, quoting, at length, from Wiki-freaking-pedia while discussing the Emergency Supplemental.
That's it, I'm running for Congress.
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wow. cornyn is a gop lap dog anyway, so I don't expect much from him, but "wiki'ing'it" on the senate floor? gross.
We all know the annoying students in one's class. you know, the ones who always have an answer, or if not an answer an opinion that they try to sell as an answer...my favorite such student was in the middle of a rant on freedom of speech and the correlation to campaign finance reform. That is whether limiting campaign finance donations from PACs and private donors is a restriction on letting a citizen endorse (think expanded version of right to speech) freely his/her chosen candidate. Well said student quoted Wikipedia in his rant and our professor - who has taught Con Law for over 30 years at universities such as Yale, Dartmouth, Boston Law - stops him cold and proceeds to ream him a new asshole for referencing Wikipedia that is so large you could drive a VW bug into it. Apologies for the visceral and lengthy story. Point being, America is really scraping the bucket when we have Congresspeople checking their facts with a peer-edited website.
2 comments:
wow. cornyn is a gop lap dog anyway, so I don't expect much from him, but "wiki'ing'it" on the senate floor? gross.
On a related note I must tell a brief story.
We all know the annoying students in one's class. you know, the ones who always have an answer, or if not an answer an opinion that they try to sell as an answer...my favorite such student was in the middle of a rant on freedom of speech and the correlation to campaign finance reform. That is whether limiting campaign finance donations from PACs and private donors is a restriction on letting a citizen endorse (think expanded version of right to speech) freely his/her chosen candidate. Well said student quoted Wikipedia in his rant and our professor - who has taught Con Law for over 30 years at universities such as Yale, Dartmouth, Boston Law - stops him cold and proceeds to ream him a new asshole for referencing Wikipedia that is so large you could drive a VW bug into it. Apologies for the visceral and lengthy story. Point being, America is really scraping the bucket when we have Congresspeople checking their facts with a peer-edited website.
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