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Blogging......it's not just for current events.....
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   ....in fact, it can [1]destroy the credibility of worthless leftist
   professors who make stuff up out of thin air in an attempt to "prove"
   that non-leftists are evil people.

     In a 1998 NYU Press book, The Spitting Image; a 1999 scholarly
     conference paper of the same name; and two op-eds, Lembcke spins an
     elaborate tale to support his view. In this post Iâll take up just
     a few of Lembckeâs arguments (Iâll have much more on spitting over
     the next week):

     [1] âFor a book I wrote in 1998 I looked back to the time when the
     spit was supposedly flying, the late 1960s and early 1970s. I found
     nothing. No news reports or even claims that someone was being spat
     on.â
     [2] The stories started appearing about 1980.
     [3] Stories about arriving back from Vietnam into San Francisco and
     Los Angeles âare implausible," and one of the storytellers lacks
     "credulity." According to Lembcke, âno returning soldiers landed at
     San Francisco Airport,â and âGIs landed at military airbases, not
     civilian airports, and protesters could not have gotten onto the
     bases and anywhere near deplaning troops.â
     [4] âMany tellers of the spitting tales identify the culprits as
     girls, a curious quality to the stories that gives away their
     gendered subtext.â
     âOne clue is that many of the stories have it that it was women or
     young girls who were the spitters. Students of gender behavior are
     usually quick to point out that girls do not spit, at least not as
     a form of communication. That being the case, it seems all the more
     significant that defeated male warriors would make a point of
     giving the spitters a gender. One has to consider that the loss of
     war equates in the culture with a loss of manhood. Coupled with the
     tendency to alibi for defeat on the battle field, it is
     understandable that men might have fantasies involving hostility
     from women.â
     âThe element of spit in the coming-home stories of veterans who
     feel betrayed reveals a binary, man-nature dichotomy that lies at
     the heart of our understandings of human existence. . . .
     Subconsciously, the individual feels a primal connection with the
     warmth and dampness of that in utero existence, and perhaps even
     desires to return to it, while consciously recognizing that life
     itself depends upon successful separation from the safety and
     comfort of that watery world. . . . The idiom of wetness in myth is
     also gendered in ways that help us understand why the stories of
     spat-upon veterans frequently tell of women or girls doing the
     spitting.â

     I have been looking into these and other claims by Lembcke and they
     appear to hold about as much water as do his notions about a primal
     (wet) unconscious.

   The writer is too polite. The bottom line is, the professor lied. And
   lied and lied and lied. Every one of his statements is disproven by a
   simple search of the news articles of the day. And his "theory" of
   "binary man-nature dichotomy" reveals more about his biases than it
   does about any science.
   It's time to put these liars in their place. For far too long they
   have dominated our society and driven the agenda with their
   pseudo-intellectual drivel. Time and time again, their "research" is
   proven to be nothing more than the vaporous emanations of a vacuous
   thought process driven by the religion of socialism. (Hat tip to a
   sharp-eyed military vet.)

References

   1. http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_02_04-2007_02_10.shtml#1170928927