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Virginia has been getting more and more conservative since I was in ninth grade. It worries me. It bothers me enough that I made a conscious decision not to live in the Commonwealth, but rather in the District even though the job I came here for was a Virginia based job.
McDonnell told a reporter about his joint MA/JD thesis. It's a PDF.
I want to be clear. He brought it up in a public interview. Now that people have found it online and are actually reading it, he's trying to make it a "youthful folly." (He was 34 when he wrote it.) If the man has reconsidered and moderated his views, that's all to the good. But I don't think it's wrong for the people of Virginia to want specifics on what he no longer believes.
Anyway.
I've read about half of it, and plan to finish it tonight before Criminal Minds (a good serial killer should wipe it out, right?). Still there was a comment area on The Washington Post saying "Oh, those crazy liberals are being mean." The discussion got quite heated from there. For the record, my comment is ( behind the cut. )
McDonnell told a reporter about his joint MA/JD thesis. It's a PDF.
I want to be clear. He brought it up in a public interview. Now that people have found it online and are actually reading it, he's trying to make it a "youthful folly." (He was 34 when he wrote it.) If the man has reconsidered and moderated his views, that's all to the good. But I don't think it's wrong for the people of Virginia to want specifics on what he no longer believes.
Anyway.
I've read about half of it, and plan to finish it tonight before Criminal Minds (a good serial killer should wipe it out, right?). Still there was a comment area on The Washington Post saying "Oh, those crazy liberals are being mean." The discussion got quite heated from there. For the record, my comment is ( behind the cut. )
