At the CFI conference last weekend, I finally got to meet Jessica Ahlquist in person. And since I was wearing my t-shirt that pays tribute to her, in a sense, Brian Engler had to get a picture of the evil little thing and the evil big thing together.
Jun 30 2012
The Evil Little Thing and the Evil Big Thing
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Pierce R. Butler
June 30, 2012 at 11:23 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Funny, she doesn’t look braver than Joan of Arc and Wonder Woman put together…
Daniel Fincke
June 30, 2012 at 11:34 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Such a great photo.
ohioobserver
June 30, 2012 at 12:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Great pic. Another of tomorrow’s heroes. I hope when she’s 35 she runs for President. Or Queen. Or whatever we have by then.
Michael Heath
June 30, 2012 at 12:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed,
I think your sardonic expression is perfect relative to the message conveyed on the shirt.
Dr X
June 30, 2012 at 1:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What’s really great is that as awful as her treatment was, I doubt she expected the tremendous support that she has garnered as a staunch defender of the First Amendment.
reverendrodney
June 30, 2012 at 1:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I am amazed and astonished and eye-popping surprised that Rush Limbaugh hasn’t had a major multi-orifice projectile ejection over Jessica for being an intelligent and courageous young woman that questions authority!
stuartvo
June 30, 2012 at 3:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I couldn’t have shown a tenth of that
girl’swoman’s courage at that age.Hell, I’m 2.5x her age and on a good day I can barely muster up one ninth of it!
democommie
June 30, 2012 at 3:57 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Jessica is beautiful, courageous and smart.
And, Ed, 2 outta 3 ain’t bad :>)
Cliff Hendroval
June 30, 2012 at 7:14 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hell, I’m in my mid-50s, and I’ve finally gotten the courage not to stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance.
sezme
July 1, 2012 at 1:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hey, Ed, there’s a little more salt in the beard than in your standard photo. Didja have a margarita just before the pic was taken? :-)
shockna
July 1, 2012 at 3:30 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Jessica Ahlquist is the perfect representation of what I wish I had the temerity and moral fortitude to be as a teenager.
I’m hoping we see more of the “evil little thing” in the future… As anyone who reads this blog knows, the more defenders of reason, the better. ;)
jesse
July 1, 2012 at 9:02 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@reverendrodney — amusing as that might be, I think even Limbaugh knows that might be over the line. Testifying before Congress is one thing. But I think if he went after Ahlquist — I mean, even people that listen to Rush mightn’t have cottoned to that. To say nothing of advertisers.
Anyhow, Ed, cool you got to meet her and say hello. She did real good by standing up for what was right.
John Pieret
July 1, 2012 at 11:27 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You are a damn lucky man to be that close to such an attractive, intelligent, courageous person.
reverendrodney
July 1, 2012 at 11:27 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Jesse,
Ah, but wait. She is destined to appear before Congress, more than once probably, perhaps some day become part of it, and then Rush will succumb to a cranial explosion. Poof!
Kilian Hekhuis
July 2, 2012 at 9:12 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
She looks kinda… squashed.
cycleninja
July 3, 2012 at 9:39 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed, you should consider making this your new profile picture. I think it’s a better shot of you than the current version.
And Ms. Alquist has my complete admiration and respect for what she’s been through and how she handled it.
kevinyoung
August 11, 2012 at 5:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
As sort of a wishy-washy deist, I nonetheless support Jessica on this one-the behavior of the people of Rhode Island was atrocious! This should, however serve to show that this religious trip is hardly limited to the right of our political spectrum-Rhode Island is as blue as they come
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June 30, 2012 at 12:27 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
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