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The word "douche" isn't French enough?

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"OK everybody -- flap your arms NOW!"

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They will create some kind of "research-only" position just to keep her out of the classroom and away from department meetings. The critical thing is to cut her conference travel budget.

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And if you’re a sociology professor from Penn State, you just might rant about the U.S. declaring war on Venezuela

Was she flying Coach?http://media.giphy.com/medi...

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what do you got?

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Amen, brother.

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Psssssst poor crazy, drunk Socialist; shhhhhhh go to sleep. You're giving the rest of us a bad name.

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shhh... No one tell her Hugo Chavez isn't president anymore; she might not handle the news gracefully.

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You win my vote for comment of the day. Bravo and well played.

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Hope she has tenure.

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You mean identifying with the tobacco plant, the commidity that created the first impetus for bringing African slaves to Virginny? That IS revolutionary. She needs to peruse her history books (and none of the crap on the wikipedias) a bit closer.

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And Ecuador - just not, you know, officially.

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And how else, exactly, is a poor assistant sociology professor supposed to get her world view in the public domain? Buy major media time? Too bad she was so sweepingly incomprehensible. She has certainly provided me with yet another convincing and valid reason to avoid commercial air travel.

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Damn. The vast wingnut/teabagger/gun humper/Xtard/survivalist/libertardian/FucksGnus conspiracy provides a seemingly inexhaustible target-rich environment for snarking and skewering, and boy do we do have a good time doing it. But I hate it when the wingnuts get in on the fun, and goofballs like the nutty perfesser here provide them with easy targets.

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Actually associate is tenured; you're thinking of assistant professor. But she may find herself with a much lighter teaching load next year.

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They should be restricted to airplanes with windows that open. If no flight attendants are willing to work these planes, then there will be no flight attendants. I'd have no food, a cash bar, and no seat belts, and I'd call it "Libertarian Class".

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