Osama Lottery

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Tue Feb 12 19:05:01 PST 2002


Doug Henwood wrote:
> Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
>
>>Take that, Osama bin Laden
>>
>
> Fuck, when is this going to stop, this torrent of righteousness,
> bombast, hucksterism, bellicosity, and self-pity? It makes me want to
> scream.
>

easy there, my friend! go watch the olympics... otoh, thats just more of the same stuff. http://www.nbcolympics.com/ is doing a poll on who deserved the pair skating award (under "more coverage" section to the right), and after 180000-odd votes everyone (96%) they say feels the canadians should've won (which is not a defensible position, but the response has certainly been all that you list above)...

--ravi



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