LGM Frequently Asked Questions
By UPDATED!!
Q: Are you lawyers?
A: Not all of us, although this is a common misperception. Paul Campos is, in fact, a law professor.
Q: Do you have any guns?
A: No. One of us does have a baseball bat, though.
Q: Do you have any money?
A: Not so that you’d notice.
Q: Wha?
A: It’s a Warren Zevon song. We’re social scientists, and we’ve devoted our careers, such that they are, to the study of the noted topics, more or less.
Q: Which of you is which?
A: Scott is Lawyers, Rob is Guns, and DJW is Money. More or less.
Q: Why does DJW never post?
A: He’s finishing his dissertation. He’s, uh… resting.
Q: And you guys are cool with that?
A: Yes. If there’s anything this world needs less that another political theory dissertation, it’s another blogger.
Q: Wait; who is “d”?
A: Well, if you listen to Ann Althouse, “d” is a life-size representation of Scott’s genitalia. Others know “d” as David Hoogland Noon, historian.
Q: What’s a Hoogland?
A: I don’t know. Some kind of terrier, I think.
Q: How did Noon become part of LGM?
A: We found him on the street. And he had no home, and so we took him in, and he’s been with us ever since. He’s a good lawyer. Not a Sicilian, but I think he’s gonna be consiglieri.
Q: Really?
A: No. He writes at Axis of Evel Knievel, we felt we needed another contributor, so we invited him to join.
Q: And who is Paul Campos?
A: He’s a law professor at the University of Colorado. Unlike the rest of us, he actually has a wikipedia page. Check it out.
Q: Do the rest of you want wikipedia pages?
A: I can’t speak for the others, but I don’t think I could handle the strain of seeing my wikipedia page deleted for lack of relevance.
Q: How long has LGM been running?
A: Since May 31, 2004
Q: How do you guys know each other?
A: Rob, Scott, and DJW were graduate students in political science at the University of Washington.
Q: What’s a “lefarkins”?
A: A term for the three of us coined by other political science graduate students.
Q: That sounds kind of derogatory, doesn’t it?
A: Yes.
Q: You guys don’t care for Sam Alito or Sarah Palin, do you?
A: No.
Q: Do you think Sarah Palin is worse than the Hitler?
A: Um, no.
Q: So why do you write more about Sarah Palin than Adolf Hitler?
A: That’s a stupid question.
Q: Is Sarah Palin worse than, say, a peanut?
A: Depends on which one of us you ask.
Q: Do you guys like terrorists?
A: Not as a general rule.
Q: Do you take requests?
A: Sure, we take them…
Q: Why do you hate Mickey Kaus so much?
A: That’s like asking the square root of a million; no one will ever know.
Q: What’s with the whole battleship thing?
A: Apparently, Rob would rather write about battleships than get tenure.
Q: How many cats do you own?
A: Rob has three, Dave Noon has two, and DJW has one.
Q: Do they all hump things?
A: Only Noon’s cats have displayed serial sexual deviance. I don’t have a good explanation for that, but it probably has something to do with Sarah Palin.
Q: Does anyone ever try to jump on the LGM bandwagon?
A: Strangely, no.
Q: What’s your blogroll policy?
A: We don’t have one.
Q: Do you blogroll conservatives?
A: Sometimes, if they blogroll us.
Q: What’s your comments policy?
A: Arbitrary random drunkenness. Does that count as a policy?
Q: Do you worry about losing your jobs because of the blogging?
A: Not really. We work with cool people.
Q: Do you blog elsewhere, in addition to LGM?
A: As noted, Dave Noon blogs at Axis of Evel Knievel, and Edge of the American West. Scott and Rob blog at Tapped.
Q: Um… are there other questions I should ask?
A: Probably.