Dumbest thing I've read all month. Christ, I'm a socialist and even I viscerally recoil with a snarl at a sermon from the upper west side about how much morally superior they are to those awful hicks in the flyover states. 'Tude like this is why the liberals lost the culture wars. Thank malatesta I live in northern Nevada. I'd take an afternoon with a mormon roads department truck driver over this jerkoff snob any day of the week. "It's so unjust". Waah waaa. Thanks for driving blue-collar middle america into the arms of the fascists, dickhead.
James Wolcott writes: It's so unjust.
As a resident of the Upper West Side and a regular bus rider, I must protest that the truth has been perverted and inverted. Yes, the Upper West Side is liberal, socially conscious, multi-culti, gay-friendly (Rosie's brother Daniel—also gay—is our state assemblyman), and occasionally itchy with political correctness. And, yes, it's true that we care, perhaps care too much, rattling our Zabar's bags as we nag the nation's conscience to no avail. Really, though, such little harm we do, what unracy lives we lead. It's like Jewish-Hispanic-Amish country up here! The broad sidewalks present a wholesome cavalcade of baby strollers, Columbia University students, diabetics on canes, and tourists posing in front of Tom's Restaurant, the diner made famous on Seinfeld. It isn't the cultural bastions of the blue states such as the Upper West Side that are greasing America's slide into the disco inferno. It's the Republican red states that are lowering the country's moral standards and dragging us through muck and malaise, the red states that are pustulating with horny hypocrites, rampant crime, polygamy, crystal-meth labs, federal handouts (The Economist recently christened Alaska "America's welfare state"), illegitimate births, blimping waistlines, and future generations of dumb bunnies. JonBenet Ramsey, dolled up and immortalized in her beauty-pageant footage, is the pre-pubescent red-hot-mama mascot of red-state Babylon. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20061030/a4ca568c/attachment.htm>