Tell me you're joking. This is some kind of lefty urban legend, right? Alienation ad absurdum, something like that?
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:19:17 -0600
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>>i am probably going to regret bringing this up, but is anyone else
>>irritated with this pale male business?
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>> --ravi
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>>(http://savepalemale.com/index2.html)
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>I'm an ex-NYer so I will express an opinion too. I'm irritated they didn't
>just leave the fucking thing alone. Paula Zahn can kiss my ass as can any
>of the other tenants who complained. Pigeons shit all over NYC, big deal.
>Peoples delicate sensibilities get thrown out of whack when they see the
>occasional half eaten carcass of a pigeon but they can walk by homeless
>people unperturbed. Be thankful any wildlife can make its habitat in such
>an unnatural environment. The one thing I don't miss about NY is a desire
>for insularity on the part of some residents from animistic behaviors that
>might offend their urban sensibilities. I knew one NYer that used to think
>milk was a manufactured product like Coke! He was a trader at Goldman Sachs
>and a generally intelligent person. He had driven by dairy farms in upstate
>NY and Vermont and yet still somehow never made the connection. I also knew
>a NYer who thought that if you went someplace like OK or NM if you went
>outside of town an Indian might actually scalp you but that isn't related
>to the point I'm making. I just throw it out there as an example of
>insularity on some residents parts from anything outside their man-made
>urbane environment.
>
>John Thornton
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