[lbo-talk] The march of idiocy

[Somebody Somebody]

Shane: Today in Barcelona a coalition of carniverous imbeciles, opportunists,  
and separatist demagogues farted in the face of a three-millennial  
Mediterranean tradition of celebratory taurine sacrifice by outlawing  
the *corrida* anywhere in Catalonia.  The authors and supporters of  
this blasphemy all deserve, and will surely receive, the suitable  
penalty: their next two rebirths will be as bull-calf, once to be  
destined for the veal stall and once for the abattoir.

Somebody: Presumably, similar words were spoken when bear and badger baiting were banned. I find it mysterious that a self-proclaimed revolutionary would be defending an institution on account of a three-thousand year pedigree. 

One man's march of idiocy is another (wiser) man's march of progress. If Catalans want to express their differences with the rest of Spain by being more humane, then I say jolly good.