You say that like Princeton’s somehow supposed to be ashamed or embarrassed because one of its best-known and highest-achieving extremely wealthy entertainment-celebrity graduates spent twenty seconds doing a silly party trick on a television talk show.
Somehow I don’t think Princeton’s too bothered about it. Believe me, I’ve met several Princeton graduates who have given the university a lot less to be proud of than Shields has.
Especially if she learned it at Princeton. It’s all part of a well-rounded education!
Sideshow Bob: What about the buffoon lessons, the four years at clown college?
Cecil Terwilliger: I’ll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way.
Yeah, I’m possibly just making it up but there does seem to be a whiff of gender-specific slut-shaming in the snickers about Shields and Princeton that a male celebrity wouldn’t get.
For example, the talk-show host Conan O’Brien pulled many even sillier stunts on television, like dressing up in a crotchprinting spandex superhero costume. But nobody ever seems to dump a sarcastic remark about how “proud” that must make his alma mater Harvard.
Like, a male entertainment celebrity who’s really successful can be as ridiculous or indecorous in his publicity appearances as he wants to be, it doesn’t reflect on anybody but himself. But a female entertainment celebrity who’s really successful is still seen as “embarrassing” her associates if she’s behaving “immodestly” in some way.
Whoa, this was originally the thread about the Bundys?! We have strayed a bit from the theme.
To pull this theme back to on topic:
The town of Princeton, ID isn’t too far from where I live. I can safely say that most of the population of that highly educated town will most likely be voting for Bundy if they get a chance. Same for the residents of the rest of the Idaho Ivy League-like towns: Harvard, Stanford, Vassar, Purdue, Wellesley, and Cornell. OK, most of these are train stops, but, they all still make me chuckle because there is nothing educated going on in those parts.
The man who lead two armed standoffs against the US federal government would kindly like us to stop portraying him as violent.
What happens when no one is willing to serve him papers? Court cases just disappear? Can you imagine anyone else yelling Sheriffs of their property, particularly someone not quite as white as Bundy?
Gee, I hope he does not find himself in need of medical care any time soon.
That would be a real shame. Of course, he’d just pull a gun and demand they treat him. That’s the Pocket Constitutionalist way!
So, let’s say I’m a black guy living in the inner city, and I am subpoenaed or have a warrant out for something. If I threaten the police, does that mean that they will leave me alone?
Or is this a privilege that is reserved for white men in Idaho?
It helps if the police think like you do. I bet they all agree with Bundy.
I guarantee the outcome would’ve been different if the Sheriffs were trying to serve papers to a black man. This is a white man privilege.
That’s another good point. Most of the elected Sheriffs around here are pro-Bundy mentality.
I’d be curious if we have any law-talkin’ folks here with experience in Utah court process. What alternatives to in-person process serving would the court have?
Google didn’t give me good indication of how it would work there, but it seems in many jurisdictions it can range from “court drops the case” to “court passes down summary judgement against service refuser”.
I obviously meant that as a rhetorical question.
Bundy is currently infecting Idaho where he recently ran for governor and got 17% of the vote.
Well, he’s got an arrest warrant for contempt, now.
Right. Sorry, confused my Western populist-infested Right Wing Hellhole states.
lol…he has his pocket Constitution on proud display in that news article photo!
Does this new warrant mean someone with gumption will actually go arrest him and not be shouted off the property? Or will it fall again to the spineless Sheriffs?
Hopefully someone will call 119.
Idaho does have a very large annual production of wheat.
Is it possible that the problem is in bread…?