Why you should check things BEFORE publicly expressing them.
Written off-the-cuff, with little editing. (Some of us can do that, and still produce brilliance.) Please excuse typos, off grammar, awkward sentences, etc. I have better uses of my time than to proofread this. It makes its point. Let me tell you a story: In 2010--the height of Tea Party times--a college student who was studying--I kid you not--CHOIR DIRECTING (the conservative counterpart to "Gender Studies"--he's gonna be saying, "Do you want fries with that?" for a long time) was volunteering at the local GOP office. As typical of conservatives and Tea Party people, he knew nothing about the reality of political science matters. One day, he came up to me all excited, saying, "I came up with two great bumper stickers." I'd explained his Teabrainery to him before, and made no effort to hide my grimace. "Oh no!" I said, before telling him with great pain to tell them to me. The first one was low-grade, but tolerable. And I told him that...
