Even has possible NYC origins...from Wiki.

Perhaps the most widely known story of the origin of the expression concerns the area around the triangular-shaped Flatiron Building at Madison Square in New York City. The building is located on 23rd Street at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, and due to the shape of the building winds swirl around it. During the 1920s, groups of men would allegedly gather to watch women walking by have their skirts blown up, revealing legs, which were seldom seen publicly at that time. Local constables, when sometimes telling such groups of men to leave the area, were said to be "giving them the 23 Skidoo".

They monitor twitter for talk about the governor...lame.  They contact the poor girl's principal to chill her free speech by scolding and demanding an apology...really f8ckin' lame.  And the bootlicker principal complies! Blue blazes!

That whole torture thing, that whole Iraq Debacle thing, that whole screw the 99% thing, not a problem.

Let's just be nice about how we're getting screwed.

I definitely got it right - our resident Ruth Marcus.

I will say this - I've written about my daughter and Occupy so one time I have to accept the mention of her in these threads.

But let it be the last time.

I won't mention her anymore either, probably should not have in the first place.

I wonder whether that person has ever really followed "political discourse" as a historical thing.  I'm pretty sure it's always been low, and it's certainly been a lot lower than it is today.

Does anyone really think the segregationists were polite?  The further you go back the worse it gets.  "Gangs of New York" era?  Such high levels of discourse there.

Monitoring someone's twitters and tweets?

And Sullivan's comments?  I had to read them twice to figure out what was wrong.  Heh, I get called that here....

If she had said that in person or interrupted an event yelling out such things like "You Lie!" during a speech, well then, it would be really, really bad.

Calling them names might actually be helpful since it lets politicians know that there is some real anger out there and that just maybe they should consider carefully where their "loyalty" is placed because if that anger keeps building it might one day explode and then there would be real consequences for them.

And calling them names and other obscenities is not the way to do it.

From the guy who refers to Presidents Clinton and Obama as "Bubba Clinton" and "Obamie".

I do agree with the mother that "if [her daughter] wants to tweet her opinion about Gov. Brownback, I say for her to go for it and I stand totally behind her" -- but not in saying that she did something that she did not do, not doing so in a school assembly, etc.

When my daughter was angry about injustices that she saw, I encouraged her to write letters to the editor or to politicians. I worked with her to apply what she had learned in school about stating an argument and supporting it with evidence (and, of course, doing so in complete sentences with correct spelling, grammar, etc.).

My daughter was twelve when she had her first letter to the editor published -- and when she also received her first letter of reply from a U.S. Senator.  She has continued to write many a letter since, and she received many a fine reply, sometimes asking her for more detail for evidence used by pols to actually effect change.

This has helped a kid with anger management problems, learning to channel her anger in effective ways, as well as with the typical problems that so many at that age have in separating fantasy from reality -- and with learning the courtesies of life, so that when someone apologizes for their incorrect actions, she apologizes for any incorrect actions on her part, or even if she was totally in the right, she at least accepts the apology.