Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Day 16: Do the ends justify the meanies?
Sorry for the lack of a post yesterday. I was at Jury Duty all day during which time I had the pleasure of sitting next to an elderly lady who snored loud enough to hear through my headphones, an Asian lady who was singing songs to herself, and a woman who must have weighed 400 pounds and smelled faintly of cheese. Ah, the joys of our civic duty.In today's post: S-W-A-T in the U-S-A, a study finds would-be conservatives are 'whiny', and Pooh Bear goes go 'Nam.
Last night I dreamed that: I was throwing a college class reunion at the house I grew up in back in Michigan. For this party, however, everyone was required to arrive in a plane they had specially built from a classic car. The carplanes landed on the highway in front of the house. My friend Megan arrived in a crystal blue pick-up truck from the 60s that had fin-shaped wings. (She also arrived with a boyfriend who she wasn't speaking to because he flew the carplane so poorly!) The party was tense because I didn't want anyone to break anything, plus I was babysitting my godchildren. The party had one of those awkward moments of silence, so one of my friends, for some reason, suggested we join hands and sing spirituals. My friend Matt sat in his seat, preferring not to participate. (I was jealous of him.) Everyone seemed on edge as they sipped champagne out of teacups.
The bad news is: The BBC wonders if SWAT teams-style force is suddenly becoming increasingly more used for American law enforcement. It seems an unarmed doctor was shot in January by a SWAT member. Funny that we haven't heard much (anything?) about this from OUR media. Perhaps the government is training these guys to go over to Iraq as a backup plan when our soldiers' start revolting.
The good news is: that there's a way to see which kids are on the road to life as a conservative. A new study finds the "whiny" kids will grow up to be conservatives, while the "confident, self-reliant" kids will mostly grow up to be liberals," as reported in the Toronto Star. Now the question is, what do we do with this information. What about sticking the kids in 'boot camps' where they undergo Conversion Therapy. After all, it's for their own good. We just want what's best for them. No? Oh, I thought since it worked sooooo well for gay kids....
(Via Reditt)
May you live in interesting times: Two words: Apocalypse Pooh. Seems someone merged The Hundred Acre Woods with Apocalypse Now for this disturbing video mashup. Like the movie, it's slow at first. But it does get more...um...disturbing when Pooh Bear starts to flip out.
(Via Reditt)
Boom level: Someone's knocking at the door.
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The study you mentioned seems counterintuitive, in a way...Aren't conservatives in favor of "self-reliance" in the sense of not having any social safety nets, low to no taxes, and an emphasis on individualism? Why do the whiny ones evolve into people who turn a deaf ear to everyone else who whines? Wouldn't they identify them as kindred spirits? Just one of the many confounding characteristics of the conservative mind, I suppose...
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