Your example is even more applicable if you worked for… say, The Anti-Defamation League.

Wow, did that prof make his views known before getting tenure, or after? No way was it before, right?

a Libertarian Christian who never gets offended?

That's true about the OLD Dennis Miller being able to include a dollop of irony in his act. The current Dennis Miller is just angry, without the self-awareness, and doesn't really do "jokes" anymore.

You do recognize the PR value of a public donation done very visibly, right? (Like Mark Zuckerberg donating millions to Newark public schools to offset whatever blowback was percolating from whatever his lobbyists were up to at the time.)

I think Maher needs to get older interns.

oops, didn't see this before posting the link above. Absolutely agree. It was exciting/scary to watch.

You're really calling the guy who did this…

That's also exactly what happened with the meaning of "politically correct." It was originally a pejorative used by progressives to admonish their peers for being all talk, no action, fulla crap, etc. As its usage grew more common and expanded, it quickly morphed into being used as an epithet wielded (mostly) by the…

"Shruggalos" heheh, that's a good one. I hadn't heard that one before.