Showing posts with label commies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commies. Show all posts

Friday, October 26, 2007

Is it 1950? Where's Joseph McCarthy?

So we get emails periodically for different scholarship opportunities, and this one caught my attention because the email made sure to highlight that you had to be a citizen of the US and:

Is this the Joseph McCarthy Scholarship fund? This was a stipulation in the donor's will, so maybe they died in the 50's before communism was viewed as a failed ideology (or at least in my view). I thought about applying and using the evidence that I hate soccer as proof of my capitalist tendencies (there are no such things as ties). Anyway, I just thought this was kind of funny, and I haven't seen language like this and wondered if this was common in the 50's and 60's.