also in the not good department
Dec. 1st, 2004 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Is it just me, or is everyone operating out of weird fear of what our government could become and in the process helping it along?
Meanwhile, the airport thing I posted last night got Metafiltered: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/37361 where we discover that her story is apparently neither credible nor sympathetic because -- 1. she was crying, 2. she calls her partner "my beloved", 3. she's queer -- and that having strangers insert their fingers into our orafices is just the price we pay for safety.
Welcome to life as a woman. We do not exist except in perfection and blandness. I wonder, if she hadn't cried, would they have said she liked it?
Her defense, all of which involves points so obvious one really shouldn't have to make them, is here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/strange_selkie/87392.html
Is it just me, or is everyone operating out of weird fear of what our government could become and in the process helping it along?
Meanwhile, the airport thing I posted last night got Metafiltered: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/37361 where we discover that her story is apparently neither credible nor sympathetic because -- 1. she was crying, 2. she calls her partner "my beloved", 3. she's queer -- and that having strangers insert their fingers into our orafices is just the price we pay for safety.
Welcome to life as a woman. We do not exist except in perfection and blandness. I wonder, if she hadn't cried, would they have said she liked it?
Her defense, all of which involves points so obvious one really shouldn't have to make them, is here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/strange_selkie/87392.html
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Date: 2004-12-01 10:53 am (UTC)More: What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man's laws, not God's - and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Robert Bolt: A Man for All Seasons.
What bothers me now is not so much that, as seeing all the laws that are being knocked down, and all the people playing Roper in the reaping.
TK