… after they’ve seen … college?
… after they’ve seen … college?
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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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Notes of a Neophyte
October 26th, 2012 at 6:05AM
They were reaching a bit with the beer and corn-dog stuff, weren’t they? I mean, if they had footage of Varilek eating bruschetta washed down by a nice Sauvignon Blanc – now that would be damning. But corn-dogs? That’s Freedom Food.
October 26th, 2012 at 7:09AM
Alan: I have to say I also thought the corn-dog/beer motif damaged the integrity of the piece.
October 26th, 2012 at 7:49AM
I thought ironic language was all the rage now. Maybe it’s different when South Dakotans do it. Or Republicans.
October 26th, 2012 at 7:59AM
Shane: Was the ad ironic?
October 26th, 2012 at 10:56AM
Was the ad ironic?
It seems to verge on parody, but apparently the South Dakota GOP insists that it’s meant to be taken seriously. The ad’s problem isn’t irony; it’s incoherence. They’re trying to imply that Varilek is both a rootless cosmpolitan contaminated with dirty foreign ideas anda boorish yahoo. It doesn’t work. The one just muddies the message of the other.
October 26th, 2012 at 1:27PM
I insist it is possible to be both contaminated with dirty foreign ideas and a boorish yahoo. Not that I have anyone particularly in mind.
October 26th, 2012 at 1:44PM
Shane – dude. Take a chill pill.
October 26th, 2012 at 3:01PM
Varilek is turning that goofy ad into a “Donate for Corn Dogs” fundraiser:
https://www.mattforsd.com/donate-for-corn-dogs/
Noem has at least figured out how to text on a cellphone — there’s some footage of her getting reprimanded by a fellow Republican for doing it during a meeting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfI7cBxLs-I
October 26th, 2012 at 3:11PM
Alan, brother, you have an unfortunate autocratic reflex to tell others what to do and not do.
October 26th, 2012 at 4:00PM
wayward: Yes – I see that Varilek has put the Noem ad on his website. The ad has motivated at least one person – me – to give Varilek’s campaign $50.
October 27th, 2012 at 10:09AM
Yeah, I gave him $10.