http://lailalalami.com/2003/when-the-new-wing-broke-away-from-the-old-mansion/ Author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:44:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://lailalalami.com/2003/when-the-new-wing-broke-away-from-the-old-mansion/#comment-146 Katharine Houreld Tue, 01 Apr 2003 05:27:28 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/when-the-new-wing-broke-away-from-the-old-mansion/#comment-146 Interesting parable, but a bit misleading. You can't represent millions of people with one confused little rich kid with an overactive libido. Where were Joseph's balls when Georgina's parents and lawyers turned up - if he was man enough to fool around in the back of an SUV than he should have been man enough to see them off with a shotgun. How many of the protestors in San Francisco and New York bothered to vote in the last election? How can we expect Iraqis to fight for their freedom against Saddam's guns if we cannot defend ours by marking a bit of paper with an X? Less of the fashionable moral posturing please people (Charlie Sheen with a cross? Please!). Hit Bush and Blair where it will hurt them - in the ballot box and wallets. Interesting parable, but a bit misleading. You can’t represent millions of people with one confused little rich kid with an overactive libido. Where were Joseph’s balls when Georgina’s parents and lawyers turned up – if he was man enough to fool around in the back of an SUV than he should have been man enough to see them off with a shotgun. How many of the protestors in San Francisco and New York bothered to vote in the last election? How can we expect Iraqis to fight for their freedom against Saddam’s guns if we cannot defend ours by marking a bit of paper with an X? Less of the fashionable moral posturing please people (Charlie Sheen with a cross? Please!). Hit Bush and Blair where it will hurt them – in the ballot box and wallets.

]]> http://lailalalami.com/2003/when-the-new-wing-broke-away-from-the-old-mansion/#comment-145 Sugarkane Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:51:44 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/when-the-new-wing-broke-away-from-the-old-mansion/#comment-145 Ooooh! God, I wish I'd written that. I guess I'll have to settle for my slight personal connection with Jonathan Franzen: he graduated from the same school as I did and he was a visiting professor while I was there. Thank you for that link. Ooooh! God, I wish I’d written that. I guess I’ll have to settle for my slight personal connection with Jonathan Franzen: he graduated from the same school as I did and he was a visiting professor while I was there. Thank you for that link.

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