Ostriches and Fleas

[rockinrehab]

My primary-school civics education consisted of an overweight cheerleading coach cracking lame jokes about the day's headlines while I made primitive attempts at flirtation with the band geek who had the misfortune of being placed next to me. I shouldn't need to verbalize that the outcome did not line up with the traditional goals of education,

Comments

[rockinrehab]

http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=7472

[lickerish]

*whistles* Nice paragraphs. Leggy.

I agree with all this obviously. And I envy your ability to bitchily promote asceticism and use sprawling metaphors to that end.

[rockinrehab]

Quite the opposite: I'm promoting big government.

Forcing them

[lickerish]

I think asceticism and big government can be hot, if not cranky, bedmates.