This ought to be interesting

[pecunium]

Bertie "It ain't torture if they don't die" Gonzales has finally landed a job.

Texas Tech has hired him, ...as of Aug. 1, Gonzales will join the Texas Tech University System to assist both Texas Tech University and Angelo State University (in San Angelo) with recruiting and retaining first generation and under-represented students. "

Because as a member of the Bush Aministration he has so much experience with supporting that sort of thing.

But, for those who think he ought to work to his strengths, never fear, he also will teach a junior-level seminar course, “Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch” in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech. As a visiting professor Gonzales will guest lecture to classes across the campus.

Because we know he has an encyclopedic understanding of it, able to recall the least details of what went on during his tenure as a legal counsel and then Attorney General.

Comments

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Would it be crazy to think that, purely coincidentally, a hefty donation has been made to that outfit by some right-wing entity?

[kestrels-nest.livejournal.com]

Be careful you don't become magnetized, Terry. :)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Him, Condoleeza Rice (and if I see her in Palo Alto... I will have to work at not telling her what I think of her), Dick Cheney, George W Bush...

I have no love for them. I have a deep, and abiding, loathing; deep, wide and swift. I'll raise a glass when they die. If I happen to see their graves, I might piss on them.

So I'd say it's a little late to "get" magenetised.

[kestrels-nest.livejournal.com]

I meant that the irony you displayed was dense enough that you needed to be careful of magnets. I guess I was a little too obscure with the humor.

I'm right with you in the loathing of those individuals, though. We'll be counting up the damage they did for a generation at least. And when they die, I may well throw a "good riddance" party.

[mamadar.livejournal.com]

May I just say, "Oh, Texas"?

[dianyla.livejournal.com]

"It ain't torture if they don't die"

*sputters*

Effin Christ. That's like saying it ain't rape if she didn't get pregnant!!!

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I exaggerate, only a bit.

Per Bertie, to be "torture" the subject must have permanent physical damage, broken bones or, "suffer pain equivalent to that of amputation or organ failure."

Further, that pain must be inflicted for the simple purpose of causing pain. If it's the "incidental effect" of otherwise legal law-enforcement activities (to enforce compliance with regulations, in the course of collecting information) it's presumptively not torure.

Mental tortures must be 1: in conjunction with phsysical, or 2: cause a permanent damage to the psyche.

That was in the legal advice sent to the president while he was Counsel, and AG.

Remember that, when next you hear Cheney, Rice, Bush, Gonzales, et al, assert, "We don't torture," because that's the definition they use.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

You know, if your appendix fails you don't notice and it doesn't hurt...

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I always wondered where the got that because organ failures are usually not that painful. I suspect someone chose it because it was, "serious."

[ckd]

I like the suggestion someone made that his students should turn in their test papers with every question answered "I don't recall".

[baron-elric.livejournal.com]

I would sign up for his class just to do that very thing.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I might do that.

But I'd also ask questions. Painful questions.

Every class. And when I was kicked out, I'd sit in front of the classroom with placards..

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

The only job I think suitable for Alberto González is one I've done myself, when I lived down on the farm: dung shoveller. Im my case, the dung was mostly dry. In his case, I recommend it be mostly, or entirely, wet.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

That's as charming a prospect as John Yoo teaching Con Law at Berkeley.