Professor Ellen Lewin to students: "F--k Off!"

Ellen teaches gender studies and suchlike at the University of Iowa.  In her spare time she supplements her $94,000 salary writing lefty things, especially (and I assume approvingly) about gay dads and lesbians. So far, no problem as far as I'm concerned. They don't call it Marxist U for nothing, and we've always been willing to grin and bear the Ellens of the lecture halls.

But I wonder why she was on the college Republican kids' mailing list. She was and received an invitation to their "Conservative Coming Out." Her two-word eff off response got around and is creating pockets of both outrage and giggles around the campus. Read about it here.

She finally decided she had to make some sort of apologia and did, emphasizing, however,  her horror at those damned GOPer kids for mentioning the picnic would include an  "animal rights barbecue" and profaning the "coming out"  phrase.

In other words, "I shouldn't have emailed you to fuck off, but you deserved it."

We have to accept that because everyone knows it's only the gun-clinging, tea partying rubes of the right --  and libertarians -- who use indelicate language in political discourse.

EDITS:

(1) -- Later reports confirm the kid Republicans' email was approved by the official university censors and sent to everyone with campus email account.

(2) -- Ellen used three words, not two. She said: "F--k Off Republicans."

Ron Paul selling out

Man, you get a lot of house for your money down toward Houston. 

Lots of room, a nice pool, and the sweet smell of liberty pervading all.  Just $325,000.

That kind of dough up here wouldn't buy you much more than a tarted-up three-bedroom ranch on a golf course.

Another one with Heaven on speed-dial; Iowa Caucuses 2012

We're up to 17 GOP contenders now with presence of another stalwart from the Bennie Hinn wing of modern American political philosophy.

He's former Judge Roy Moore of Alabama, two-time loser in governor races there and most notable for (a) refusing to remove a Ten Commandments plaque from his court house and (b) deciding that the most crucial national policy need of the century is worrying about what gays do.

(I hear he thinks both Mr. Standard and Mr. Poor were born in Kenya.)

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(Your handy Iowa candidate master list has been edited to add Judge Moore.)
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The genius of the Heartland

In a hard-luck Iowa burg called Webster City last summer, a couple of sharpshooters decided to tell local officials they would come to town,  set up a business, and fill most of the 850  jobs lost when Electrolux moved to Mexico.

'course, the city would have to do its share -- fork over  some $790,000 in "loans."

"Sure!" said the Webster City fathers.

It was only in the coffee shops where crotchety old farts said, "Wait a minute? Those guys are going to buy car bodies in Romania, ship 'em here, glue electric motors on them,  and make us rich?  Sounds like horse (apples) to me."

Part of the court case ended today. A judge awarded the 46 Dacia Logan (huh?) bodies to one of the warring parties contending ownership. One of the others shrugged it off and said he might buy them at an inevitable bankruptcy sale.

The $790,000 in city loans? Ask the very practical old boys in the coffee shop what chance the taxpayers ever have of seeing their money again.

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Right. You don't give a damn about Webster City, even if it spawned McKinley Kantor. Neither do I.

However, the lesson is scalable up to the congressional and White House levels. Lesson:

"It's true you can't fix stupid, but you don't need to elect it to public office."