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An apple rather far from the tree

By Owen Paine on Thursday January 4, 2007 09:44 PM

Most of the time, I take the view that mini-Me, aka Fort Zion, reminds me of ourselves shrunk to wallet size, and cast into an honest-to-God literal 19th-century style frontier setting.

But just now it flashed through me that we palefaces and our feisty foster dwarf have one very grave difference: whereas we turn our white face toward the rest of the planet, assuming that among all those billions, there was, and probably will be again, a certain, well, spontaneous liking for us. A liking perhaps betrayed or lost, temporarily, through our own clumsiness. but still and all, deep down we want to be liked, and we figure we deserve to be liked, and if we're not liked, we need to know the reason why.

Mini-Me is coming, as they say, from a very different place. The Zionicals feel -- not without some justification -- that they were, and are, and evermore shall be, surrounded by hostiles.

Question to toss around the kitchen table: which national prejudice is more dangerous to global humanity (putting size and throw-weight aside, of course)?

Hard to tell, eh? Hard as a Koufax fastball.

Comments (4)

sk:

if we're not liked, we need to know the reason why.

Charles Krauthammer would rather have that changed...

sk:

Oops, try this link instead.

Charles Krauthammer writes:
http://tinyurl.com/ylhs6b

Jayzus Lawdy Mama.

Even allowing for the fact that it's Charles "If I Had A" Krauthammer, this is some of the meanest-spirited spleen-venting ever published in either Time or Newsweak ever since George F. "Fucking" Will published his infamous 1995 Newsweak smear of The Sixties, hippies and Deadheads on the occasion of the passing of Jerry Garcia.

It was one of those pieces which I know I should've been righteously outraged about, except I was too busy laughing my ass off -- kind of like the Michael Kelly and Richard Cohen columns in the Wash Post running up to Iraq, when the antiwar movement was calling bullshit on the official line and the likes of Kelly and Cohen, apparently at a total loss for a coherent counterargument, were forced to resort to fuming and name-calling.

Somebody needs to tell these yahoos -- especially Krauthammer -- that that kind of absurd, over-the-top shrieking is way, way played. Not that it ever wasn't a load of shit, but now it's really really played. Now it just sounds silly.

Like I said, I should be outraged and indignant at the Sauerkrauthammer piece, but I can't quit laughing.

js paine:

as if to prove a point....
herr swine kraut
the nasty little cuff

just one of a hundred
zioconic
george wallace wanna bes

trying to force feed
us all american scouts

his 5 k year old
mother's milk :

chosen but hated by all

a joseph among brother nations

sorry you old testament thumping
trog fraud
this nation knows its goodness
and knowns its temple-reagan
crystal sugar heart
will shine through the fog of war

the world will rally to us
like those towns folk
do to jimmy stewart

fuck
we built hollywood
into the mega saur
it is
on just that un quenchable
faith in our very own unique
inner
grand is good
and good is grand ness

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