New Progressive Column: The Unconflicted White Man
Check out Kate’s new column in the Progressive, The Unconflicted White Man:
My Indian girlfriend makes me capture crickets using a humane catch and release program, that would make a Lou Dobbs Minuteman Border Patrol pitch an epi. I go quickly to the door and, at a decent distance from the house, release the critter into the wild. I can be driven to violence by night sounds, but when it comes to crickets, I bow to my skittish, delegative partner’s wishes. I honor her loosely held belief in reincarnation…. (Read more)
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March 13, 2008 @ 10:38 pm
Kate,
Have you considered a romantic holiday weekend to Afghanistan? President Bush just said he is so envious of the troops there on their romantic fling to the land of the suicide bomber and tribal warlords where for a ride in a low armored Humvee you too may find the services of a brain injury specialist necessary should you of course survive the excursion to la la land after your Humvee runs over a road side bomb brought to you by the Taleban. Should we all book now? Romantic! What the hell, what is wrong with that man? Such a getaway, oh the wonders of being shot at as you breathe the dense fumes of the rocket attacks, oh the grit and grime of a day in battle, the adrenaline rush as you cradle your dear friends head in your lap because the shrapnel blew out their brains which are now all over your trousers. Oh to lose ones hearing due to the grenade explosions and to get to run over the little kid who got in the road because they were confused and your fellow soldiers wont let you stop out of fear of a trap, so you get to live for the rest of your life with the thud of their little body under your humvee, post traumatic stress, a disorder which will haunt you for the rest of your life, lead to unemployment, imprisonment, never a sound sleep again, terror everyday you hear a car backfire and think you are being shelled, oh the wonder, the splendor, the romance of war. As a taxpayer, I want to help pay Bush’s dream of romance in Afghanistan! I truly hope he goes. Kate, get Jena’s phone and call him with encouragement and support. Go George, for the sake of the country, GO.