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Before I Went to the Dark Side

By on May 21, 2013

Looking at this early 1960s photo, I am surprised how sweet & innocent I looked before I discovered how much I enjoyed giving hell to government agencies.

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photo from Public Policy Hooligan

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14 Responses to Before I Went to the Dark Side

  1. The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit May 21, 2013 at 4:21 pm #

    A bow tie! How cool is that!

    • Jim May 21, 2013 at 4:34 pm #

      I was too young to know any better.

  2. Andrew Rogers May 22, 2013 at 12:54 pm #

    Oh, I don’t know. Someone once wrote (I think in the New York Times), that “wearing a bow tie is a way of expressing an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.” So you were clearly off to a good start.

    • Jim May 22, 2013 at 1:19 pm #

      Happily, I have found other ways to show my disdain.

    • The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit May 22, 2013 at 3:21 pm #

      Oh, I like that. “An aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.”

      Jim, all I can say in regard to your response, and as politely as possible, is that it demonstrates that age does not always equate to wisdom.

      Not, of course, that I’m concerned with what you think. Said lack being aggressive….

  3. Jim May 22, 2013 at 3:24 pm #

    I associate bow ties with compulsory Sunday School attire from age 3 to 7 or 8 – maybe 9. (Then I switched to a necktie.) No way I can overcome my deeply-ingrained prejudice.

    • The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit May 23, 2013 at 5:21 pm #

      Interesting point about Sunday school – I’d completely forgotten that bow ties were de rigueur for those affairs.

      Something in Leviticus, I guess.

      • Jim May 23, 2013 at 5:52 pm #

        I assumed the idea came from Dante’s Inferno.

  4. Elaine May 28, 2013 at 11:32 pm #

    lmao, thank Goodness. I have never been that innocent..lmao…

    • Jim May 29, 2013 at 4:38 pm #

      Think of all the disillusionment you thereby avoided.

  5. Elaine May 29, 2013 at 4:15 pm #

    BTW, Being an opinion dissent columnist is more promising.

  6. Elaine May 30, 2013 at 2:44 am #

    Well, the innocent look is even less innocent than American politicians.

    • Jim May 30, 2013 at 8:46 am #

      Except for Michelle Bachmann.

  7. Elaine May 30, 2013 at 9:47 pm #

    Well, Michelle Bachmann. That is why Americans would be proud of being Americans as you…a Chinese or British politician with “profound culture” will never be like her way.