Mr. Malema was expelled from the party for breaking rules and espousing controversial positions contrary to party policy, like calling for mines to be nationalized.
"People feel more obligated to tip someone who performs a service right in front of them, like calling for a reservation," he said.
His head is stuffed with oddball conspiracy theories and strange obsessions, like calling for the elimination of Switzerland or blaming the J.F.K. assassination on Israeli intelligence.
(As Amy Davidson notes in today's Daily Comment, he's been wading into politics in other ways, too, like calling for a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan).
Current practices also allow pension officials to give priority to political concerns, he said, like calling for the divestment of pension money from "rogue states" like Sudan and Iran.
He has held countless hearings, opined volubly on security issues and, by his own account, advised Mr. Bush on matters like calling for the further expansion of NATO.
Others (like calling for annual reports to describe a C.E.O.'s "compensation package" in plain English) are purely voluntary and therefore close to meaningless.
As the crowd cheered, he gave a taste of what a Republican-led Congress might look like, calling for a repeal of the health care overhaul legislation "lock, stock and barrel," and an end to "bailouts, once and for all".
Calling for a boycott of Israeli-made foods at the Park Slope Food Co-op turns out to be a lot like calling for a boycott of Speedos in Minsk.
The service imposed "user contracts" that award each of its 300 million members a starting score of 80 points, which can be deducted for violations like calling for protests or trying to evade censorship with puns.
