And if I had no social life, how could we have created all those happy memories at rennies threatening each other with bodily harm? So what if my social life consists of getting really drunk off jager and then becoming belligerently violent - it’s still my social life. Gosh..

To the issues:

1, Student politicians are not innately bad people, and I am personally giving the new executive and senate a fresh chance to prove the point. That having been said, there are almost no historical evidence to suggest that they will be any better than the capricious, time-and-money wasters who have gone before them. Optimism is the only thing that keeps me from chucking it all in and making the Commentator the first student fee-funded skin mag.

2, Andy has no social life. He totally pussed out when we went to the bar last night… something about having to work for the Marines all weekend. God, what a loser. Oh, and he does have a girlfriend, as much as he may deny it.

3, Andy and Tim are not sad little men sittin alone in their rooms spewing hate on the internet. That’s your job “rod.” Andy and Tim are far to busy sitting alone in their rooms spewing hate which gets published in the finest journal of opinion to be found in the city of Eugene. Owned.

4, Calling out the only published gun columnist in Eugene by saying “you know where to find him” is just plain dumb. OK, so it’s a joke… haha. Next time pick your battles, and start shit with an Emerald ethics columnist or something.

5, Damn.

Who’s doing the slandering? It’s obviously you - my opinion of politicians is based in facts, while yours is complete tripe.

Interesting criticism -
“These two are the types who spend most of their day locked in a room during the summer staring at a computer screen. They’re not very social and tend to be extremely bitter and probably sexually frustrated. They will also most likely write back to me talking about their girlfriends or all the social things they do which in reality they are just making up, in order to prove me wrong.”

So therefore we have the tautology. Maybe it’s people like you “Rod” who are doing the harm to society. Maybe we’re trying to save it by calling out those who also do harm to society. With your logic, no one should ever complain about what the president or any other elected official does. That sounds like a great system - just put me in charge ;)

And also, you sniveling little rat, kiss my ass! My life is honestly awesome.

Yeah that guy is pretty much my hero.

“model the commercial loan portfolio for a $10 billion bank as well as administer the incentive comp plan for our commercial lenders (including forward-looking projections, system maintenance, and officer training)”

Good stuff man, hope some girl out there reads that and gets impressed. And, for the record, has no one ever from the ASUO gone on to be successful? you seemed to point out quite a bit of negatives. But you’re probably right, which is why i am going to vote for you when you run next election. So you can change all that’s wrong in politics. Oh and Andy, pretty funny comment about idolizing vomit, you are hilarious. I’m done with this trivial nonsense, all I wanted to say was Athan IS a good guy, I wasn’t talking about the entire ASUO. I’m out.

Tim: I really don’t want to think that everyone who enters politics does so for the basest of reasons, but then again, almost every politician I can think of is pretty relentlesly toolish. I’d say it has more to do with the jobs than the innate personalities that fill them.

That pretty much sums up every single person elected to the ASUO, and most appointments.

What is really most distrubing about you is that you think these people ARE going to be sucessful. It’s like shit idolizing vomit.

My employer is a 2.6 Trillion dollar-largest corporation ever. Ha! j/k….

Breslow appears to be sort of involved in starting a charter school in Springfield after a stint with some local activist group in Eugene. Impressive.

Petkun seems to be riding a bus around Oregon as the Lane County Chair of the Oregon Bus Project. I mean, wow, Wall Street here he comes!

MUNGER, as of last year, became Executive Director of the OSA. So, I guess in the world of political advocacy she’s moved all the way up to treasurer of the chess club. Her brother Ben went from UO OStudentPIRG toady to OStatePIRG toady, I’ve no idea what he’s up to today.

The only info I can google on Eddy real quick is a series of Oregon Commentator stories.

Bailey is coodinator of a minor Amnesty International chapter, but at least he’s trying to help the women of Juarez, Mexico. Still, I’m not exactly tense about my new droopy-looking overlord.

So, as you can see, I’m terribly impressed with their stunning achievements. I do fear they’ll reach the pinnacles of success long before I do, I mean, I only model the commercial loan portfolio for a $10 billion bank as well as administer the incentive comp plan for our commercial lenders (including forward-looking projections, system maintenance, and officer training). This career is a dead-end for sure. I’m easily replaceable, sure, but let’s not pretend that the former ASUO kids are acheiving some glorious utopian future. They’re mostly doing what they did in college: pointless activism on some sucker’s dime. I’m just glad that sucker isn’t me any more.

And, for the record, the reason that politicians are scum is that it takes a certain type of untoward character to want power over others through the force of the state. ASUO folks don’t actually have any power, but they like to pretend they do. It makes them, perhaps, more annoying than real politicians but not nearly as dangerous.