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August 02, 2005
Bushology New York Style
Bushology New York Style
Granted I am from a Blue State. Granted I’m from the Bluest Town of that Great Blue State — New York City. Granted I’ve lived much of my life in the Bluest part of the Bluest Town in that Great Blue State — The “Famously Blue” Upper Westside of Manhattan — home to the early civil rights movement activists and attorneys, home to Columbia University in the 60’s, home to John Lennon and Yoko Ono, home to the last communist cell in the US, and home to the last Weather Underground member who turned herself in after living openly as a nursery school teacher here for over 20 years — we are talking True Blue! Granted my father was a college professor. And granted I am French — so there is really no hope for me — How could I ever be anything but Blue Blue Blue and not have mostly True Blue friends?
But anyway, there I was, hanging out in my Blue City in a Blue Restaurant, drinking water from an amazingly beautiful Dark Blue Bottle, with one of my many True Blue Friends — Doug “always a pleasure” Kester, founder of Reach Networks — one of the Internet’s true pioneers, when Doug and I began to casually discuss one of the truly tiresome, and almost taboo, topics for this True Blue Community — The State of Affairs Under the Bush Regime. Always a depressing topic in this Blue town, especially since last November.
Doug, in his usual and insightfully way, began to describe a method to this “Republican Madness” (remember I’m Blue and so is Doug). I made some casual and uninsightful retorts, but he was clearly getting those tell-tale signs of early intellectual contractions — clearly a birthing process that wasn’t going to stop after I left him.
Sure enough, the next day he sent me an email and attached to it was a couple of powerpoint slides he had “worked-up” after he left me to clarify his views which I have “cut’n pasted” below (with his kind permission).
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Nothing like a casual lunch date on a lazy Spring day in Manhattan. ( … and aren’t those stupid anti-smoking ordinances really just our passive-aggressive thinly-veiled slap-in-the-face directed at those tobacco-growing Red States?)
[This lunch occurred in Spring 2005 — and I am only getting around to posting it now. — cgm]
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