Ok so what am I supposed to do as a member of the "professional Left?"

[nadinbrzezinski]

Do I get a Latte as the official drink? Of course at Starbucks, they tell me they do fair trade.

What about a suit, or will shorts and a collared shirt be enough? And are birkenstocks still required or is the new uniform hiking boots? I mean I missed the memo on the uniform.

Should I carry my copy of the Communist Manifesto at all times? (Ironically these days I do, as I prepare a class on Poli Sci, if I am going to ask students to read it, I'd better read it myself, AGAIN)

What about Das Kapital? (Well it resides in memory with The Wealth of Nations, I guess the Komissar will not like it that I am readying both The Wealth and Ricardo and a little Malthus...oh and John Stuart Mill, the horror I know. )

Perhaps a little Bakunin, if I want to go extreme... (Anarchism kiddies)

And now that we are thinking of changing the TRUCK... should we consider the hybrid, or is the Volvo still required?

And chiefly, when is the cleansing of the national politic coming to an end?

Now on a serious note, if Gibbs went there... I am starting to think that we are becoming more than gnats.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Is the paid part well part of the secret

government job? Oh wait, in this case it would be the secret party job?

[Xipe Totec]

2. Repent our leftist ways and start supporting the right, perhaps?

:shrug:

[uppityperson]

3. Do you think Obama=Bush or do you get paid for your opinion?

If neither, sorry you aren't a member.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Well if I get paid to teach poli sci

I am sure a student or two might believe I will be one of them feared liberal profs... even if I stay neutral... poli sci might have that bend to some. I mean it covers things like oh Marxism in class.

So I guess, that will make me a pro!

As to Obama= bush. no... but at the policy level there has been quite a bit of continuation of policy... but that's not because of Bush but because of Empire.

[Ken Burch]

4. The most important things are, help keep the break room clean

and chip in to the coffee fund.

Oh, and sign up for the bowling team.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. But we are going for the espresso machine

I mean a professional liberal cannot just drink ANY coffee.

[Ken Burch]

10. Yes....and it will be fair trade espresso.

n/t.

[KakistocracyHater]

18. I'll bring the chocolates

*

[Ken Burch]

19. And remember, Friday is Organic Vegetarian Pizza Day!

n/t.

[KakistocracyHater]

21. damn! I wanted to bring in Roundtable's Guinevere pizza! can we do that

every other Month?

[Ken Burch]

22. All right...so long as we recycle the box.

n/t.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. Don't forget some gluten free crust for the few

gluten challenged amongst us.

And they do make a delish gluten free granola anyway... I'll bring some...

(Yes I went there)

[eleny]

6. And if you aren't in the profession you can't defend those who are

Even if you have respect for them and consider them icons of your point of view.

The arguments made to us today would be laughable if they weren't so pathetically feeble and desperate.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Why I think we are near a turning point

but that is my tea leave reading department. And in the reading of tea leaves I've been wrong before... but that is how the tea stains look to me right now.

[eleny]

13. I don't believe that people will abandon the Party given the alternative

But Empire has a way of getting its way.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Well that is the nature of US Politics

but the pressure must be getting to them.

As to Empire, we are close, relatively speaking, to the end of it. That will shake things up, a tad.

[Safetykitten]

11. Well, according to Gibb's information, they better have a good drug plan.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Ah yes, and of course being the good libertarians we are

(there is a left that IS libertarian), we will go for good ol' fashioned weed, I guess...

This is comedic at some levels, I know.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Oh THAT's why I missed the memo

thanks MM... if we are professional we are SUPPOSED to be ORGANIZED!

I was feeling, ahem inadequate, at missing that IMPORTANT memo.

[Safetykitten]

16. Jeeps are PL.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Ah that is good to know

[Robeson]

20. They're pissed we haven't embraced the policies of Rockefeller Republicanism...

...otherwise known as neo-liberalism.

[Ken Burch]

23. Rockefeller Republicanism was to the LEFT of the DLC

n/t.

[Robeson]

25. I agree. I was just trying to be kind.

[mmonk]

24. Act professional.

That's what I try to do.

;-)

[TheKentuckian]

26. I suggest lunches of such length that a Hollywood producer would blush

Appearing disheveled and using salty language after six our six-thirty usually works too.

There is room for a variety of styles in or organization, it all boils down to results around here.

We need you to wake up liberal every morning and put your head on the pillow thinking of not only how you can be a better liberal but how you can make liberals around you better.

Being liberal isn't a job and out is more than just a career. It is an ever more fulfilling lifestyle for the best of the very best.

You've got the talent and the brains aren't a question but do you have the stamina and burning desire?

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. RLOL

on a serious note, I suggest a place to get all that messaging consistent, like the right does... a talking points memo... (I mean that, they do that)