Saturday, November 05, 2011
Thought of the Day
America is seizing up before our eyes: The decrepit airports, the underwater property market, the education racket, the hyper-regulated business environment. Yet curiously the best example of this sclerosis is the alleged “revolutionary” movement itself. It’s the voice of youth, yet everything about it is cobwebbed. It’s more like an open-mike karaoke night of a revolution than the real thing. I don’t mean just the placards with the same old portable quotes by Lenin et al., but also, say, the photograph in Forbes of Rachel, a 20-year-old “unemployed cosmetologist” with remarkably uncosmetological complexion, dressed in pink hair and nose ring as if it’s London, 1977, and she’s killing time at Camden Lock before the Pistols gig. Except that that’s three and a half decades ago, so it would be like the Sex Pistols dressing like the Andrews Sisters. Are America’s revolting youth so totally pathetically moribund they can’t even invent their own hideous fashion statements? Last weekend, the nonagenarian Commie Pete Seeger was wheeled out at Zuccotti Park to serenade the oppressed masses with “If I Had a Hammer.” As it happens, I do have a hammer. Pace Mr. Seeger, they’re not that difficult to acquire, even in a recession. But, if I took it to Zuccotti Park, I doubt very much anyone would know how to use it, or be able to muster the energy to do so.
Mark Steyn on Occupy Oakland specifically and the decline of the West generally
Mark Steyn on Occupy Oakland specifically and the decline of the West generally
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# posted by Roger Fraley @ 5:52 PM 
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Kids these days, with their nose rings and their pink hair and their hula hoops and their *throws arms down in exasperation* I don't know.
You're right, his out-of-touch insults and blanket statements are really funny.
You're right, his out-of-touch insults and blanket statements are really funny.
# posted by 
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: 9:19 AM
If you can't appreciate the bold font sentence, there is little hope for the survival of your sense of humor. Good sarcasm though.
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