pencilnecks

What was the likelihood that a bunch of those "pencilnecks" were actually immersing themselves in their heady theories... merely to shore up their underlying rabid racism?

I just noticed that Dan Drezner called something "the Ann Althouse" idea. Ann Althouse 2008

"pencilnecks", one of the nicer terms the Army uses to describe civilians.

Latest Articles 2009

Among other things, reading it by the photocopier contributed tomy recent firing from a government bureaucracy – a pleasant irony, given what Chapter 1 has to say on the subject of pencilnecks.

2008 August « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

Among other things, reading it by the photocopier contributed tomy recent firing from a government bureaucracy – a pleasant irony, given what Chapter 1 has to say on the subject of pencilnecks.

The Gone-Away World « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

This was an intellectual conference, doubtless full of a bunch of uptight pencilnecks who have their nose buried in books too much, blah blah.

I just noticed that Dan Drezner called something "the Ann Althouse" idea. Ann Althouse 2008

Among other things, reading it by the photocopier contributed tomy recent firing from a government bureaucracy – a pleasant irony, given what Chapter 1 has to say on the subject of pencilnecks.

2008 August 22 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

Was there one brave revolutionary who defied the pencilnecks in the Federal Highway Administration and had greater ideas than the hand and the man?

Walking Person & Upraised Hand, Part One : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2007

They shovel their cash at FOX and CNN's advertisers while things like NPR go begging, derided as the province of unpatriotic pencilnecks.

uninformed 2006

This is what it's come to - a situation where pencilnecks, slimy political operatives, cowering politicians, and chickenhawk pundits sit in their comfortable Washington offices, strut around puffing out their chests, and make themselves feel like red-meat eating patriots by advocating the continuation of a policy based on lies, a policy that is destroying our military, getting our soldiers killed or maimed in a quagmire, and hurting our country's overall position in the world.

Iraq Transforms American Democracy Into American Eliteocracy 2005

Sadly, this did not involve actual tussling against Mike the Tiger, though we are certain that was the original idea Miles had before the pencilnecks in legal overruled him.

Every Day Should Be Saturday Spencer Hall 2010