Sober & Vegan (... le plus que je veux faire la revolution....)

[Gordon Fitch]

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote:
>>>If there is an old piece of smelly shit around
>>>the American left today, it is partaking in the male adolescent joys of
>>>"kicking butt" by running through the streets with black flags and masks,
>>>busting Starbucks' windows, and proclaiming that you have invented some new
>>>form of revolutionary politics

Doug:
> >Two questions, Leo: 1) why can't women play this game too, and 2) 
> >what does this lurid scenario have to do with a sobersides like 
> >Nader?

Yoshie Furuhashi:
> 1.  Our local anarchist youths (in Columbus, OH) are largely female & 
> often (sadly) vegan or at least vegetarian.

There's nothing sad about being a vegan or a vegetarian, 
at least not to my personal observation.  I've already
mentioned the predominance of women in my little world.


> 2.  Evidently, the American Left are a little too sober, so sober 
> that we are unable to generate a plausible sex scandal.

I think this is because we're not taken seriously enough.  If
a bunch of anarchists or socialists have a drug-soaked orgy,
who cares? It's just what's expected.

At least it keeps us smiling over our soyburgers.