Berets for all!

3 Comments

1. 

   Jesse

   January 16, 2004 at 1:23 am

   “Why are you so mean to me?” <-- New tagline.
2. 

   John Kusch

   January 16, 2004 at 7:04 am

   I thought I saw you on the street with an attractive young man.

   “Where’s his beret?” I asked Matt as we drove past.

   “Fucking tourists,” he scoffed. “Let them buy their scones and leave.”

   For my part, I think four more years of Bush really and truly wouldn’t be the end of the world. It would be bad, but bad can be good, especially when it teaches us lessons that stick to our ribs. While I’m a proud liberal (not to mention a proud fan of Fair Trade coffee and fresh bean sprouts on homemade Pad Thai), the Democratic party and the “left” in general have been guilty of some excesses, of carelessness, of hubris. These hard times may create a crisis from which they can learn important lessons; and until the repercussions of the Bush presidency reach enough average people (most of whom, from my experience, live in a level of oblivion that pundits and webloggers have a hard time grasping), they’ll fear our berets more than they fear the loss of their overtime, medical benefits and drinking water.

   Did I mention I saw Adam walking down the street with an attractive young man? He would have looked better in a beret.
3. 

   Adam

   January 16, 2004 at 8:33 am

   John: My feeling is, we’ve already learned enough lessons from Bush. Or at least we should have. But good point about “level of oblivion.”