but George Will has a pole in his ass that goes right into his brain ! That is why he cannot turn his head.

Glenbeckistan.

Kr for someone finally taking on Poindexter

Gives off kind of a pervy vibe.

in Washington DC, and in the years I worked there I saw and waited on many Politicos.

At the time George Will's mother lived in a city we flew to so I saw him a couple of times when he came in to meet her. He was simply the crabbiest human being I'd ever met. Just not very pleasant at all.

I know this isn't a profound insight, but I can still see all too clearly his sour, self-involved expression.

...that's very interesting. Who and how he is when he thinks no one is looking.

people who are more or less invisible to him, such as an airline ticket agent.

Over the years I saw or waited on lots of politicians and other public figures. I will say that the very nicest one ever was Jay Rockefeller. He had a somewhat complicated change to make in a multi-part ticket, back when they were still all written by hand. He came up to the counter by himself, explained what was happening, and behaved like some otherwise ordinary citizen while I changed his reservation and rewrote the ticket. I'm so sorry he never had a serious run for President.

...would have better than Reagan or Bush 1. But I'll never trust a Rockefeller. Scratch one and you get Mitt Romney.

Nice observation though. Hope you write your memoirs.

I worked from January, 1969 to August, 1979. It was the best possible time, in my opinion, to have worked. We were decently paid. Flights were rarely full and so it was possible to non-rev (fly for free as an airline employee) most of the time. I also worked for a small airline where I had far better travel benefits than if I'd worked for one of the big ones. I took full advantage of the travel benefits, and I'm very glad I did. Oh. And we were almost always boarded in First Class. Nice.

I will say that my memoirs would only touch a little on the well-known people I encountered, although they would be included. I'd like to try to convey a sense of what that job was like. It was brutally difficult in many ways, and it got a lot harder after deregulation. These days it's much worse than when I worked, and because flights are always full the employees who want to travel can't do so, certainly not in the way I could. I would never recommend the job to anyone these days.

...stands for a much bigger story about work in America and the plight of working middle class people. Hope you'll give it a try because you describe the non-measurable quality of relationships between people in general and between (some) employers and employees back in our very brief golden age: 1950 until Reagan. Life was more livable and that's hard to describe, but stories like yours capture some of it. ^^

people were part of the middle class. We really were working class, passing for middle class because we wore shirts and ties, dresses for the women. We didn't get our hands dirty, although we were shift workers. It was the golden age. We sort of knew it even then. One of my co-workers said more than once that no matter how hard the job was (and it was often very hard) so long as he wore a shirt and tie to work he knew he had it good. His perspective helped me understand what we had.

That's what working people have---mostly only oral history. Their lore and spirit. Studs Turkel would love it.

I said that we airline employees would gather in bars late, after work, and share our worklore with each other. In many ways the stories we told each other involved archetypes and such.

Or co-write it. Or group-write it. Start a blog for the lore and wisdom of working people. Or maybe it already exists and you could add on. I have to research this myself 'cause I'd like to read it.

But maybe that's the approach I should take to my memoir, treat it as worklore.

Several years ago I tried writing it and it was truly awful. I was too smugly inside the experience to shape it in any sort of interesting way. Perhaps I should try it as fiction.

toward those who served them their food and drink--had something to do with the willingness of a server to use his phone to videotape Romney's 47% remark. I remember reading that the guy who taped Romney was offended by his snooty, dismissive attitude. Obama, on the other hand, is often seen smiling at and shaking hands and chatting with doormen, wait staff, etc.

He told that lie for the first 2 years of the Tea party's existence.

Blew up an outhouse and a teacher's car. IIRC.

Source: "The Clothes Have No Emperor" by Paul Slansky

He finally fell off the cliff.

He's always been one first class asshole.

include stats on violence that had been derived from "capacious" definitions of sexual assault:

For shits and giggles, if a DUer wanted to see who else on DU is decrying this new rating system, and blaming the President, the Secretary of Education, and the DOE, they could google the phrase I have bolded in the helpful little box up at the right that admin has provided.

To the Jury...it's not against the TOS to refer to prior postings....the admin gave us a helpful little search box to do so.