This is a remarkably stupid paragraph, all recycling and reassurance. But in the spirit of its silliness I did have some questions/comments:
> "There's a reason why the left, or what America calls the left, has an image
> problem, and it's not all due to right-wing propaganda. It has an esthetic
> that turns off ordinary Americans. The Left won't be caught dead eating at
> Jack in the Box. It doesn't know how to make dick jokes and it doesn't know
> what the blue line is for. It writes long pseudo-literary articles about
> boxing, but it's useless in a bar fight. Its vision of the future is one in
> which all vices except pedantry are strictly regulated-no sex, no rap music,
> no snowmobiles, no snorting smack with models in fur bikinis. Even its
> writing, and particularly its political writing, is joyless and
> condescending. The lefty writing style is characterized most particularly by
> a preponderance of irritating literary winks to its fellow tribe members,
> nervous little verbal tics that are the intellectual's idea of secret frat
> handshakes."
What is Jack in the Box? I get that it will be a fast food restaurant chain, but are we talking tacos or hamburgers or what (I doubt it's seafood), and what demographic? The majority of dick jokes aren't very funny -- there's Bill Hicks, yeah, but who else makes dick jokes that are actually as funny as dicks themselves? What is the blue line, and what is it for? What does "pseudo-literary" actually mean? If I want sex and rap do I have to drive a snowmobile or snort smack with models in fur bikinis? (I suppose this is meant to be joyful, but it sure is condescending.) "irritating literary winks"...?! could this guy please employ an editor -- oh yeah and I also don't know what these would be.
Dennis, you sure this is something you want to sign up to?
Catherine
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