I saw this a couple of weeks ago and thought about posting it. Now that it’s been updated, I will. Glen E. Friedman, who I generally respect except for some of his more militant vegan views, is using Russell Simmons’s old place right next to the site of the World Trade Center (featured on MTV Cribs just a month or so before 9/11) to stage a protest against everyone’s favorite administration. Right on.
I’ll get to some posting on the family soon. The Boy started school today and I’ve got a good story about The La. I’ve been slacking on pictures lately, but now I have an excuse. Our digital camera is having issues that began sometime after the 4th of July. I’m not too happy since I’m fairly certain that it’s now out of warranty. I’ve also got some geek stuff that I want to throw at ya.
Orwell and Bradbury, here we come. I’m not sure if this is one of the intended consequences of terrorism, but it definitely could be considered a fringe benefit by someone wishing the breakdown of a (once) free society. The misapplication of security policies by troglodytes is resulting in the kind of climate that Orwell and Bradbury wrote about in their respective masterpieces, 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. Am I being a little alarmist? Yes, but I don’t like the direction this is heading. I sincerely hope that every high school in America has both of these books on their reading lists this year.
We’ll see if this gets much play from the television media. If the Bush campaign is going to allow stuff like the swift boat ads, then we might as well pull up some old college rugby shots. What an asshole.
It may be somewhat petty and people do change, but if people are willing to disregard a lot of the good things that Clinton did because of the Lewinsky affair, I don’t see why we can’t disregard Bush because he punches people in the face during a rugby game.
EDIT: I left out the original LA Times article that dredged this up in the first place.