| Friday, July 2, 2004 |
23:01 - So how 'bout that local sports team?
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So you're having a Friday night dinner party; and over steaks, one friend pointedly makes the remark that one can't help but admire the ballsiness of "Bush and friends" for always keeping America in a state of fear and uncertainty with the terror alert levels. You and other friends set about explaining, for the ensuing half-hour, what the shadow war against terror is like, how many terror attacks are being thwarted worldwide daily, how al Qaeda terrorists view their victims (as "animals"), how much weaponry has been found in Iraq and who possibly has it now, and how pointless it would be to try to pretend that there isn't any terror war at all; and through it all, he nods at each point, making agreeing noises, acting like he comprehends your position, even sounds like he's willing to accept your point of view and come back from just-saw-F911-and-I'm-all-full-of-righteous-fury land.
Then he smiles, looks you in the eye, and says, "Yeah, I guess you're right... al Qaeda is pretty bad. Almost as bad as the fundamentalist Christians and Israeli lobby that control Bush."
There's just not much you can do at that point, is there? Other than turn on The Simpsons (and hope it isn't one of those annoying preachy ones from this year)?
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Brian Tiemann
