One colleague bemoaned "what am I going to for a month with all this world cup shit going on" To which I said "I dunno have a beer and get to know your community."
Travis
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> joanna wrote:
> >
> > by Simon Black June 9, 2006
> >
> > As World Cup fever grips the globe, many progressives
> > will be sighing at the prospect of another sporting
> > spectacle distracting the "masses" from the pressing
> > issues of the day -- the classic "bread and circuses"
> > argument. There is a tendency on the North American
> > Left
>
> I stopped reading at this point. Perhaps there is hidden someplace a
> useful article which (without further attribution) contains the phrase
> "there is a tendency on the left," but if so I have never seen it. And
> it is almost impossible for a sentence beginning "Many X. . . ." not to
> be both true and banal.
>
> Carrol
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> P.S. If someone were to show me some writing of my own that contained
> this phrase, my comment would be, "Well, I can be pretty stupid at times
> too."
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