Some Jackhole is Investigating My November Speech at Colorado State…

I love it when right wingers go on stupid ass fishing expeditions, hoping to uncover some untoward activity on the left, when there is, in fact, nothing at all interesting going on. Case in point: some stupid right winger has apparently filed a Freedom of Information Act request to Colorado State University, trying to discover the terms of my contract there, where I will be speaking on the 4th and 5th of November.

A few things are worth noting here, and specifically to the kind of knuckle-dragging trolls who went to the trouble of trying to get this information:

1) Hey dumbass, the FOIA only applies to federal government actions, and has no applicability at all to the contracts signed by state colleges. Try Google before going on a fishing expedition next time.

2) If you wanted to know how much I was getting paid for the two days, all you needed to do was call the organization that books my events, or the school itself. Or shit, just e-mail me. I would have told you. I am giving 4 separate presentations in the two day period. For those, CSU will pay roughly $7500. I will receive $5250 and the non-profit, radical, educational organization that handles my bookings will receive about $2300.

3) Please note, this is a lot less — and I mean a whole lot less than any right winger on the lecture circuit receives, even for one presentation, let alone 4. Sarah Palin, for instance, gets a minimum of $30,000 or so for just opening her uninformed, uneducated, stupid-ass mouth for 20 minutes and then leaving, which comes out to about $90,000 an hour. As for me, I'll speak for roughly 6 hours total in order to make the $5250. While that is still damned good money, I realize, it comes out to less than 1/10th what Palin makes. So unless you can find objective evidence that Sarah Palin provides 10 times more insight than I do — which you couldn't prove if your life depended on it — I think you have very little about which to complain.

Hope to see your pathetic ass in Fort Collins in November…