Well, look who got published in The Capital Times. As I was walking my dog today, I wondered if there were anything in the piece that might elicit a negative backlash from the community. (You know, aside from my defiant leftist rhetoric in defense of Ralph Nader.)

I realized that I called Bush "evil" -- and when I saw the thing in print, I found that they had picked up on this for the headline. Well, as Shakespeare put it in Romeo & Juliet (Act II Scene III):

For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give,
Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.

I try to instill in my students an awareness that simplistic good/evil dichotomies are unhealthy for democracy, so I feel like I really goofed when I used such a binary phrase to describe our president. (TPCQ: "Only the Sith think in absolutes!")

I should have simply called him a liar, a spin doctor, and a war criminal, and left it at that. I apologize if my use of the word "evil" offends anyone.

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