[lbo-talk] Re: alternation

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Ravi:
> its what i like to call the "mensa effect" or "front bench syndrome"
> (you know, the kids who used to sit on the front bench, at school, and
> always had, or had to have, the right answers? ;-)). i lack the
> empirical data (an example of the limited reasoning i pointed out ;-)),
> but i think this may be specific to the american left.

I dunno.  I always thought of the lefties as the back bench crowd - the ones
challenging the teacher, smoking weed in the bathroom,  and hanging out with
the bad crowd - that is, until they went to college while the bad crowd - to
pumping gas.  

Wojtek