I am pleased to announce the opening of Jackleg Thinktank. I have always dreamed of working for a think tank, so after hearing Jack Grosh describe his role with American International Center, I decided to start my own. Mr Grosh used the Lakota word wasichu, which means "he who steals the fat," to describe the "whole thing." While their thinktank was represented as a "premiere international think tank," mine will be the opposite as described in the Yahoo definition of jackleg:
Actually, I repudiate the second noun meaning. I am very much in favor of collective bargaining and hold the history of strikebreaking to be dishonorable and disreputable, sometimes crass and murderous. Actually, I plan to strive to avoid the second adjective meaning-unscrupulous or dishonest. However, since I plan to think for Republicans/conservatives, who are the ones with the money and without the ideas, that may be very difficult.
As the founder of Jackleg Thinktank and being neither a lawyer or preacher, I hereby appropriate the title Admiral Jackleg. I would like to invite anyone who wants to join my thinktank to submit applications. There is no application form; you just apply by posting to the comments section of this blog. If you can't apply without a form, forget about us and join the ACLU.
Although I do not anticipate making much money, I will share it with you so long as you think and post to the deliberations of the thinktank. Spouting the talking points of Republicans, Democrats, the Heritage Foundation, MoveOn.org, the National Public Policy Institute, or the American International Center does not qualify as thinking. If you think Bill O'Reilly is looking out for you, it is doubtful that you are capable of thought. If you think Tucker Carlson is cute, there are obvious questions about your intelligence or sexuality. If you think Tom Cruise's intelligence exceeds his egotism, go away and don't come back. If you think Bono's ideas are worth more than three minutes attention, you may have adult onset ADD.
The discourse at Jackleg Thinktank does not have to be especially erudite, but should be mildly cogent and not extremely profane. We don't care about jargon as much as we do spelling and grammar. Actually, the next member of the Jackleg Thinktank should be the Grammarian, who will be empowered to critique without mercy spelling, grammar, syntax, and composition. He or she will also be authorized to declare any passage boring if he or she so deems it. Man, I coulda' been a lawyer! Whether or not you would like to join this fly-by-night organization, you may want to suggest to your business friends, especially if they are Republican, to advertise on this site. Not only will it encourage us to think, it willl generate money for golf junkets to Scotland, Armani suits, and ostentatious sports cars.
Looking forward to sharing an original thought or two!
Admiral Jackleg
jack·leg KEY Chiefly Southern and South Midland U.S.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Lacking skill or training; incompetent. Used especially of lawyers or preachers.
2. Unscrupulous or dishonest.
3. Makeshift; temporary.
NOUN:
1. An unskilled or unscrupulous itinerant worker.
2. A strikebreaker.
Actually, I repudiate the second noun meaning. I am very much in favor of collective bargaining and hold the history of strikebreaking to be dishonorable and disreputable, sometimes crass and murderous. Actually, I plan to strive to avoid the second adjective meaning-unscrupulous or dishonest. However, since I plan to think for Republicans/conservatives, who are the ones with the money and without the ideas, that may be very difficult.
As the founder of Jackleg Thinktank and being neither a lawyer or preacher, I hereby appropriate the title Admiral Jackleg. I would like to invite anyone who wants to join my thinktank to submit applications. There is no application form; you just apply by posting to the comments section of this blog. If you can't apply without a form, forget about us and join the ACLU.
Although I do not anticipate making much money, I will share it with you so long as you think and post to the deliberations of the thinktank. Spouting the talking points of Republicans, Democrats, the Heritage Foundation, MoveOn.org, the National Public Policy Institute, or the American International Center does not qualify as thinking. If you think Bill O'Reilly is looking out for you, it is doubtful that you are capable of thought. If you think Tucker Carlson is cute, there are obvious questions about your intelligence or sexuality. If you think Tom Cruise's intelligence exceeds his egotism, go away and don't come back. If you think Bono's ideas are worth more than three minutes attention, you may have adult onset ADD.
The discourse at Jackleg Thinktank does not have to be especially erudite, but should be mildly cogent and not extremely profane. We don't care about jargon as much as we do spelling and grammar. Actually, the next member of the Jackleg Thinktank should be the Grammarian, who will be empowered to critique without mercy spelling, grammar, syntax, and composition. He or she will also be authorized to declare any passage boring if he or she so deems it. Man, I coulda' been a lawyer! Whether or not you would like to join this fly-by-night organization, you may want to suggest to your business friends, especially if they are Republican, to advertise on this site. Not only will it encourage us to think, it willl generate money for golf junkets to Scotland, Armani suits, and ostentatious sports cars.
Looking forward to sharing an original thought or two!
Admiral Jackleg
posted by Ed at
3:25 PM
2 Comments:
Proper spelling and grammar? Why, that's become almost unheard of these days.If I had a dime for every misused apostrophe that I see daily, I could afford to retire and loaf. Wait a minute, I am retired and I do loaf. In the words of that great thinker Don King - "Only in America!"
PEACE
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Anonymous, at 2:49 PM
Touche! Let me lower my sights and confess that, although I aspire to correct use of the language, my best efforts are most usually imprecise and too quickly tossed off. Tom Robbins, in an interview, said that John Grisham evidently wrote much faster than he. If they are the estremes of the continuum, I may fall more toward the Grisham end. Some semblance of respect of the language will be sufficient, I suppose. Thanks from
Admiral Jackleg.
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Anonymous, at 3:36 PM
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