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| 2008-05-19 |
| James Lileks, "Daily Bleat" We’re staying at the Coronado Springs, which is also a convention center. It makes for a different mix; among the families, most of which are pasty and mid-thirties with jouncy-belly kids, there’s a big contingent of pasty people in their mid-forties lugging gimme-sacks full of incredibly important material from very important conferences. The women look like managers and the men give the impression of someone who wants to golf, but cannot. The convention has to do with the Humane Society, I think. While checking in I was in front of a woman who had a T-shirt with a picture of a dead pig, and the words AUSCHWITZ BEGINS. I peered at the shirt to divine the full text: “Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals - Theodor Adorno” I suspected that if an actual Auschwitz survivor had approached the woman in the shirt and upbraided her, the woman would have shrugged it off: well, she’s a little too close to the matter to see the deeper meaning. Who the *$(#% wears a picture with a slaughtered pig and a specious Auschwitz equivalence to a Disney resort check-in line, anyway? Who picks that one out of the drawer and says, oh, spot-on? |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #9 Germs are people too! Everytime you take a bath, you're committing genocide. |
| Posted by: DK70 2008-05-19 22:48 |
| #8 As for Rantburg tee-shirts, I like this one from Shipman. "At some point you have to stop tracking, gathering information, analyzing the data and stringing together the variables and just shoot the Bastards." |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-05-19 20:16 |
| #7 "But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously. Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - George Orwell, Animal Farm |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-05-19 18:02 |
| #6 What minds? |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2008-05-19 17:46 |
| #5 To paraphrase Lasarus Long "I don't understand Liberal minds..." |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-05-19 17:13 |
| #4 I nominate: We should forgive our enemies - Right after they've been taken out back and shot. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-05-19 15:23 |
| #3 Bah, why not just cut to the chase. I nominate this and this for the Official Rantgurg Tee Shirt. What do you think, too subtle for this place? ;) |
| Posted by: AzCat 2008-05-19 14:32 |
| #2 Wear a T-shirt to Boulder that says, "Punching hippies... It's a start. Let's go further!" |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-05-19 13:44 |
| #1 Let's sell Rantburg T shirts. How about 'Killing Germs Is Murder' or 'Germs Are People Too, So Stop Bathing' or 'Happiness Is Sleeping With Cockroaches On Cold Nights' ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-05-19 13:38 |