Did I miss something indicating that this Arlen was a she? Because my mental model for assigning gender to the aforementioned poster was formed by my exposure to video clips of Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, back at the time of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.
Gotta confess, though, I was perversely amused at the oddly appropriate juxtaposition of spammer-name and thread title for one of the pr0n spams, as it appeared in the "recent comments" column:
"girl scat on newspaper. . ."
Harriet
wondering if trolls can be paper-trained?
Sidelight on a worthy Particle candidate:
Editorial in the Crawford, TX newspaper endorsing Kerry:
http://news.iconoclast-texas.com/web/Columns/Editorial/editorial39.htm
(thanks to Elizabeth Moon, who got it from one of her fellow Texans)
Oops! that should be "his girlfriend at work"
For what it's worth "zargon" posted in ginmar's lj last night (timestamp appears to me as 22:08) that "his girlfriend from work" had just emailed him to report the same filters in place that ginmar reports: i.e., LJ="Tasteless" and JavaJane="Weapons". So he thinks it's not the military but the net-nanny.
Of course, he doesn't say where his girlfriend works.
That article in The New Yorker that Janet Lafler mentions above is available on their website at
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?040802fr_archive04
Also, the Obama autobiography Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance will be re-issued in a paperback edition from Three Rivers Press at the end of August!
Harriet
(who wore her girlie pink "Nutbar Conspiracy" tee the other night when she went with friends to see Fahrenheit 9/11)
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