Verbal Mulligan
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Buttinskis
We (and the rest of the world) spoke last week regarding those lovable seditionists in Berzerkeley, who officially stated that the local Marine recruiting office and its fine occupants are “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”
Today, those fine upstanding moral traitors have buckled under the national backlash and would like take-backsies:
Two Berkeley City Council members want to rescind an official statement that the U.S. Marines and their recruiting station are “uninvited and unwelcome intruders” in the city after the action sparked a national uproar.
As poorly-conceived as the original notion was, at least these tofu-poisoning victims had the fortitude to take a public stand on the strength of their (idiotic) convictions. Or they did until they started to feel the sting of the nation’s displeasure.
So now they’re backpedaling as fast as their ergonomic mountain bikes can take them, which adds a rather piquant bouquet of flaming hypocrisy to the existing miasma of misplaced moral superiority, faux intellectualism, and patchouli. They might have earned some grudging respect, had they actually held to their convictions (yes, even though they are excessively stupid), but clearly those weren’t so much “convictions” as “minor episodes of mental flatulence.”
So, friends and neighbors, I suggest we treat any further proclamations issuing from Berzerkely in an appropriate fashion…a delicate wrinkling of the nose, a gentle wafting of the hand to clear the air. Perhaps a spritz of Lysol.
Tags: only in california, point and laugh
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