Mumia's guilt

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Mon Aug 17 13:38:25 PDT 1998



>Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>>Vegetarianism jeopardizes your status
>>as an authentic left-con, but we are
>>broad-minded so we will make an exception
>>if you stay away from yuppie vegetables
>>like arugula and hearts of palm.
>
>Max, hearts of palm is so 70s. Or is Washington just in its own time warp?

It's true that culturally speaking we are a backwater, especially compared to Manhattan.

There's also the populist angle which tends to repel cosmopolitan avant-garde tendencies. Hence the celebration of gawdawful bean soup served in the Capitol cafeteria.

MBS



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