From now on, I plan to ask every reich-wing skinhead if their hairstyle is a "Loughner cut".

[Fly by night]

My younger brother (who used to have both a brain and a soul) has been dating a reich-winger for a while now. He showed up on my farm last month with a "Loughner cut" and a new Beretta (sp?) handgun. All he has talked about lately is guns, guns, guns (and that is dangerous because he is as clueless about guns as he is about the women he dates.)

I'm not sure what kind of pod his Eva Braun sweetie put under the bed, but I would like my brother back. While I'm at it, I'd like my country back too.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

1. You know, his hair and eyebrows were cut like that because of lice infestation.

It didn;t have anything to do with "reich-wing" or "skinheads".
Standard prison practice... get lice = lose hair.

[Fly by night]

4. That would help explain why all the reich-wingers are going chrome-dome these days.

Solidarity with all the other vermin, I suppose.

[truth2power]

15. How do you know that? ...

Someone speculated about that a couple days ago. Now it's being stated as fact. Just asking.


ETA>

Something happened. Here's the rest of my post:

Oh, and he was described by witnesses at the scene as having hair. Then it was stated - also on no evidence - that it's common for jail staff to shave the heads (and presumably the eyebrows) of inmates in order to humiliate them.

Subsequently, an artist's rendering of Loughner's court appearance shows him with hair.

Seems strange.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

23. Hmmm... I saw it posted as fact a few days ago as well

perhaps I mistook someone's speculation. :(

If this is the case, sorry.
Although, plenty of pre-jail pictures show him with hair (and eyebrows) :shrug:

[justiceischeap]

2. I had a shocking conversation with a co-worker today

We were talking about the "both sides do it" assertion and he was like, "Oh NPR is just as bad as Faux News." Then he went on to say he thought Rush makes some good points, that he's intelligent and makes him laugh. This is a guy that voted for Obama, works at a very liberal company and is gay.

I'd like my co-worker back, then one who I knew before he said Rush was intelligent.

[LoZoccolo]

3. The original skinheads were Jamaican rude boys. n/t

[Fly by night]

7. I thought the original skin-heads were 60s/70s European neo-Nazis.

I've never heard of the rude boys, so I can't date them.

[LoZoccolo]

9. Nope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPZFpWC9o4

[LoZoccolo]

11. And...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufKb5M9Uj4E

[Fly by night]

19. Sorry, my dial-up internet isn't YouTube friendly.

But thanks anyway.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

31. McVeigh had that haircut too?

[superduperfarleft]

12. I don't know about rude boys, but early skinheads weren't racist (per se).

They were just white working class kids from England who liked punk rock, drinking, and fighting. Hell, there's still tons of non-racist skinheads (SHARPs) walking around. Not everyone with a shaved head is a neo-nazi.

[LoZoccolo]

17. "Rude boy" is like the Jamaican version of "tough guy".

It's not really a group or anything.

[Fly by night]

20. That's why I qualified my statement by saying "reich-wing skinheads."

I'm bald myself. I don't intend to reproach every bald person with the same statement. Only those who spout their politics so I can be sure I have the right person in my surveyor's cross-hairs before I say anything.

[Scruffy1]

32. I know several skinhead Anti Fascist League members.

You can't judge a book by looking at the cover.

[Krakowiak]

5. I'm sure all the progressives like myself that prefer a close cut

will appreciate your concern.

Thanks.

Judging people on their hairstyles wasn't a good idea in the 60s, and it's not a good idea now.

[TorchTheWitch]

10. +1000000

[Fly by night]

18. One thing for sure: there's no lice on you.

See post #1 above.

[Krakowiak]

22. whew... I hate to nitpick (nt)

[RZM]

25. +1

:)

[superduperfarleft]

6. After the first time, I'm sure you'll quickly rethink that. n/t

[Fly by night]

16. I'll let you know how it turns out. (Looking forward to it myself.)

As a Nashville paper said about me last year (after our Secretary of State filed a false "terrorist threat" complaint about me in a failed attempt at intimidation that royally pissed off our state police, who said they didn't plan to become anyone's Gestapo anytime soon):

"Here's the moral of this little tale of jackassery: Don't mess with aging hippies. They're meaner than you think."

http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2009/06/25/what-kind-of-buffoons-are-running-the-secretary-of-states-office-now

[spin]

8. I have a hair cut like his ...

but I'm 64 years old.

My hair was leaving me and I finally got tired of paying full price for a haircut when I only had short hair on the sides and back.

Therefore I shaved it off.

[Mark Maker]

14. I hear ya

I wish I still had hair to shave, especially if the poster visits my place of business.

[Fly by night]

21. Hard to visit your place of business, since your profile includes no info on you.

If you need the business, PM me with directions.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

24. but I bet you still have eyebrows....they shaved his

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[spin]

27. I kept mine too. (n/t)

[FreeState]

34. I've shaved my head since I was in my early 20s - going on 20 years now

and I'm as liberal as they come.

[GSLevel9]

13. remember to "duck" nt

[yurbud]

28. hey! What about us balding 40+ year old guys who are losing our hair?

For us, it's the loughner cut or the horseshoe, and I don't like fur horseshoes on my head.

[old mark]

29. How can you tell someone's politics by their haircut? I keep my hair very short because I

don't have enough of it remaining to fuss over, so I just buzz it off and occasionally shave it.

You never really know, ya know?


mark

[Fire Walk With Me]

30. Note that Loughner also cut off his eyebrows, and perhaps his eyelashes as well.

That's something past "skinhead".

[Fly by night]

33. My apologies to all the non-reich-wing skin-heads who thought I was speaking about you.

I wasn't.

My personal experience (with my newly shaven, newly gun-toting brother) is what framed my original post.

I was also thinking about a handful of TN legislators who punctuate their politics with that non-hair style.

I was also thinking about two-thirds of the police in our area who are now adorned the same way.

In case it is not obvious, I don't judge a person's politics by their appearence. But once they identify themselves as reich-wingers, they are fodder for my comment (or will be).

Once again, as a bald person myself (recently selected as "Best Liberal" by the Nashville Scene), I meant no offense to folks who are simply hairless, due to personal choice or an overabundance of testosternone (clearly my affliction).

However, for reich-wingers, I mean nothing but offense. I am tired of playing defense with neo-Nazis.

[FreeState]

35. BTW there are people that are bald do to medical reasons

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hair-loss/DS00278/DSECTION=causes

I know several people that are bald and have been since they were children. Judging anyone by what they look like is not a smart idea period.