[Imc-web] Rat Bastards?

[Mike Lehman]

Toe Jam would work for me, but might be a bit sketchy for most people. I 
don't see anyone taking offense at it as a category, but I can easily 
see someone taking offense at bastard as a category. We probably want to 
offend Rove, but I'm not so sure what the point would be in offending 
others we don't intend to.

I'm sure that Rove richly deserves being called a bastard. However, it 
sort of says more about us than him when we use it as a category. I see 
no problem with someone using it as part of the headline of an 
announcement about Rove. I doubt that will raise any complaints and if 
they do, it's within fair use of the website as someone's felt opinion.
Mike Lehman

Wendy Edwards wrote:
> Maybe we could name the category "Toe Jam."  Wait, that'd
> probably give dirty feet a bad name.
>
> Wendy
>
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:54:29PM -0600, Mike Lehman wrote:
>   
>> OK, now that I've poked around and seen who it applies to (Karl Rove), 
>> it sort of makes sense. I am a bit uncomfortable with IMC classifying 
>> people by their mom's marital status, though. "Regime" has worked pretty 
>> well for a lot of such folks, but maybe a better new category might be 
>> "Criminal Politicos"? Heck, in Illinois at the state level, we'll have 
>> plenty of use for that.
>> Mike Lehman
>>
>> Mike Lehman wrote:
>>     
>>> I see that we now have a category of news called "Rat Bastards". 
>>> Anyone know anything about this?
>>> Mike Lehman