Wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
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cyranoGlenn Greenwald is back to his blog, and he talks about the administration's brave concession to perhaps start obeying the law maybe unless that's not what it means at all.
Wookie Kim, displaying all the wisdom of his or her twenty years and over a year of quality ivy league education, weighs in on the a capella San Francisco gay-bashing by saying I couldn't believe that anyone could do that to a Yale student. It is not clear whether Wookie believes that Yalies are (a) so socially advanced that we mere mortals should be psychologically unable to lay hands upon such glorious beings or (b) possessed of superpowers which render them invulnerable to physical attacks unless performed in the presence of Purple Kryptonite.
As an aside, I think that Wookie Kim would be a great name for a college rock band.
I have realized, in retrospect, why it is so easy to take the statement Senator Boxer made to Secretary Rice as a statement of fecundity and child-bearing wisdom rather than a statement of class and power. Because we, of course, live in a classless society and of course the rich and powerful are just as likely to have to take a job in the military which involves getting shot at as would, say, an eighteen year old from Detroit who dropped out of school to bag groceries to help his moms pay the rent.
Also, the stress-induced eczema is starting up on my eyelid again.
But at least my joints hurt less today. See? There's always a silver lining. Wait. This isn't silver, it's just tin foil. Um. But it's shiny!
EDIT:
I've received a comment from a person who says he is the abovequoted Wookie Kim, and I have no reason to disbelieve it. He says that the reporter misquoted and misinterpreted him in order to provide more punch to the article, which I must confess I also find to be imminently believable. And it worked--I read the rest of the article. I would like to apologize for at least some of my snideness. If I apologized for all of it, then likely a friend would stage an intervention. Plus, my writing style is entirely based on snideness. I blame my general cranky state for the excess. I hope the Whiffenpoofs will still consider my apartment as a stop on any West Coast tours they might be planning.
Wookie Kim, displaying all the wisdom of his or her twenty years and over a year of quality ivy league education, weighs in on the a capella San Francisco gay-bashing by saying I couldn't believe that anyone could do that to a Yale student. It is not clear whether Wookie believes that Yalies are (a) so socially advanced that we mere mortals should be psychologically unable to lay hands upon such glorious beings or (b) possessed of superpowers which render them invulnerable to physical attacks unless performed in the presence of Purple Kryptonite.
As an aside, I think that Wookie Kim would be a great name for a college rock band.
I have realized, in retrospect, why it is so easy to take the statement Senator Boxer made to Secretary Rice as a statement of fecundity and child-bearing wisdom rather than a statement of class and power. Because we, of course, live in a classless society and of course the rich and powerful are just as likely to have to take a job in the military which involves getting shot at as would, say, an eighteen year old from Detroit who dropped out of school to bag groceries to help his moms pay the rent.
Also, the stress-induced eczema is starting up on my eyelid again.
But at least my joints hurt less today. See? There's always a silver lining. Wait. This isn't silver, it's just tin foil. Um. But it's shiny!
EDIT:
I've received a comment from a person who says he is the abovequoted Wookie Kim, and I have no reason to disbelieve it. He says that the reporter misquoted and misinterpreted him in order to provide more punch to the article, which I must confess I also find to be imminently believable. And it worked--I read the rest of the article. I would like to apologize for at least some of my snideness. If I apologized for all of it, then likely a friend would stage an intervention. Plus, my writing style is entirely based on snideness. I blame my general cranky state for the excess. I hope the Whiffenpoofs will still consider my apartment as a stop on any West Coast tours they might be planning.
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Date: 2007-01-18 04:52 am (UTC)Seriously, that line about the Yale student had me chuckling a bit. Not that I support violence of any sort, but the statement itself struck me in a way I cannot quite find the right words to describe it.