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10 Responses to Yesterday’s KAOS Radio Interview Now Online as an MP3

  1. W Baker October 4, 2006 at 12:53 pm #

    Well done, Jim. Oh, and thanks for the mention of Alabama banning vibrators several years ago! I think the scalawags in Montgomery would pass a law against their mothers bathing naked, if they thought they could make political hay out of it! If one thinks “national” politics is black humor at its best, check out your local and State governments. It’s mini-me-style chicanery at its finest.

    Incidentally, true to form, there are probably more vibrators sold now in Alabama than in most places! (Not that I’m searching them out – he says dutifully! There just appears to be more “venues” – the old French origin (“venire”) definitely implied here – for that sort of equipment!)

  2. Jim October 4, 2006 at 1:06 pm #

    Wes – thanks for listening!

    When I heard of that vibrator ban, I wondered if there was some special problem they responded to – whether Alabaman women were less becoming or something like that.

    Your update on the local market reassures me that I did the right thing by not selling short Everready or Duracell stock when the ban was announced.

  3. Jim October 4, 2006 at 2:27 pm #

    Poaching this comment from SCott Horton’s blog, which is also getting feedback on the interview. This comment is from Wedge Antilles:

    James Bovard and Scott,

    What an incredibly great conversation! You guys rock. My heartfelt thanks go to both of you for your tireless work at awakening the sleeping masses.

    (P.S.– Dr. Bovard is surely one of those guys over 45 who havent’ sold out…my apologies for biting at the heel somewhat at the pre-1963-born cadre in an earlier post in a blind caffeine-fueled rage…)

  4. Jim October 4, 2006 at 2:31 pm #

    “Dr.”???

    “Dr.????!!!!”

    What a hoot.

    Yep, there’s a dude that does too much caffeine.

    Or maybe I need to stop feigning a Bostonian accent.

  5. lawhobbit October 4, 2006 at 6:45 pm #

    Regarding your doctorateness, what does the “D” in J.D. stand for, then? Or are you one of those old fashioned attorneys who just took the exam to get in and didn’t need a J.D. as a prerequisite? Inquiring minds want to know!

  6. Jim October 4, 2006 at 6:50 pm #

    “Regarding my doctorateness” – any such “D” would stand for “damned if I know.”

    First someone calls me a doctor, then someone calls me a lawyer.

    Geez.

    What next?

    I fear I will be accused of being a registered Republican – as Al Jazeera tagged me (until my quick denial) in May.

  7. lawhobbit October 5, 2006 at 9:52 am #

    As I mentioned in email, I don’t know why I thought you were an attorney instead of an actual human being and would like to publically apologize for ever casting such an aspersion upon you. Scandalous. Scurillous. I have no choice but to assign myself the penance of buying your next book and actually reading the bio section, not just leaping to the Important Good Stuf. Oh, what a hardship, but I will do my best to bear up under the strain.

  8. Jim October 5, 2006 at 10:22 am #

    Now if only everyone would embrace such penance…

    Being labeled a lawyer is actually fairly mild, slander-wise, compared to what I hear from most Bush supporters.

    The bio on book jacket flaps may not be the best indicator as far as an author’s sordid past. St. Martin’s/Palgrave, for instance, has never disclosed on one of my book jacket my time as a flagman for the Virginia Department of Highways. 

  9. lawhobbit October 5, 2006 at 1:26 pm #

    Hmmmm…standing there waving something, with futility, at large dangerous objects speeding past you. That sounds vaguely lawyer-like, based on days I’ve had, yes.

  10. Jim October 5, 2006 at 1:29 pm #

    I suspect that my billing rate as a flagman was not quite up to the prevailing rates in the legal profession.

    The job wasn’t all bad – sometimes people would stop and give me a cold beer.

    And it taught me a lot about government work.