Just like old times

[akaihyo]

Normally, here in Georgia, I get to deal with Right-Wing Theo-Conservative wackiness, though there is a fair amount of Left-Wing nonsense too within the Ivory Towers of the University of Georgia. But what did I find while waiting for a bus on my way to Tyche's but an issue of the Ashville Global Report from Nov '05 but recently left.

"News from the Front Lines" it promised, which front lines it was not so clear about. The AGR is one of those Neo-Socialist, Green-to-a-fault, anti-Capitalist newspapers that seem to proliferate in college towns (it seemed that Eugene and Portland, OR, had dozens of them) so it was like stepping back into the past for me. I could comment on the contradictions within, but if you have read these sort of papers before, you already know them, and if you have not, it would be equally boring. Let just say it gave me a few minute of interested and amused reading.

Comments

[cmccurry.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. "Down with the [Insert adjectives here] [Then a noun]!" Follow up with a call for revolution, anarchy, or cupcakes. And for God's sake, man; don't confuse them with facts. Cleaning up the mess from the cognitive dissonance takes weeks.

[xuande.livejournal.com]

Of course, cupcakes are a superior replacement for most -isms.

[cmccurry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the problem is that a lot of these people would demand to know if I used "Fair Trade" flour, dolphin-safe sugar and all natural chocolate. Then more rioting would follow.