Lonely dog on ice floe

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Feb 21 07:31:08 PST 2003


Chris Burford wrote:


>>From: LouPaulsen (LouPaulsen at attbi.com)
>>Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 03:32:46 EST
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Chris Burford" <cburford at gn.apc.org>
>>
>>> British television this morning says that yesterday all the US networks
>>> switched to the drama of a plucky dog alone on an ice flow drifting
>>> helplessly down river.
>>
>>Symbol for Blair? Was it a poodle?
>
>
>No much nicer than a poodle. To be serious my hunch was the dog was
>the American people, who are wondering if compassion is better than
>belligerence. It would fit with the sense of insecurity behind the
>plummeting poll ratings of the President.

So I just read in today's paper that the dog was on an ice flow in the Passaic River, in New Jersey. That thing was a toxic dump when my father was a kid - which didn't stop him from swimming in it, even when a dead horse floated by. is it still that vile? The dog may have been in the safest place in the river.

Doug



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