This may be the most pathetic editorial wheeze I have seen post-election (via e-mailer Dave):
It’s near midnight Tuesday as I write this, and Dubya is in the fast lane back to the White House. I wish I could say I’m surprised or disappointed in my country. The truth is that I’m neither. The U.S. electorate performed as I knew it would, despite my protestations of hope and glimmers of optimism. I’m resigned — not to the idea of a neocon nation but to the fact that I will always feel alienated from the country I live in but can no longer consider my home. Home? That’s where you feel welcome. I don’t feel welcome in the United States right now. Home? That’s where you feel safe. I’ve never felt more threatened.
We are officially a minority, folks. We’ve always known that San Francisco was an oasis. Now we’re forced to acknowledge that it’s a ghetto, too. Look at the electoral map. We’re like a coastal preserve filled with threatened species: feminists, queers, liberals, leftists, pacifists, intellectuals, environmentalists, libertarians, people who drive hybrids.
That threatened group of Prius owners. The author also directs us to this hysterical website- Marry an American. Enjoy.
Dave Schuler
I guess the lack of intellectuals on the Right is the reason that the Left has been intellectually bankrupt for the last 30 years.
DJ
She does realize that Marry An American is parody, right?
DJ
Crap, I meant it was satire. Not parody. Whatever.
shark
We’re like a coastal preserve filled with threatened species: feminists, queers, liberals, leftists, pacifists, intellectuals, environmentalists, libertarians, people who drive hybrids.
Too bad we can’t float them on an ark like Noah and reclaim SF as well….
Kimmitt
That threatened group of Prius owners.
It’s called “humor.”
mike from oregon
One man’s oasis, is what level headed Americans call a cesspool. Of course when you wake up every day and your sensibilities are constantly challenged and assaulted, eventually you get sucked in (no pun intended). The poor guy is about a deluded as they come.
Harry in Atlanta
“We’re like a coastal preserve filled with threatened species: feminists, queers, liberals, leftists, pacifists, intellectuals, environmentalists, libertarians, people who drive hybrids.”
He forgot dumbasses, nitwits, closet jagoffs, sissies, sitz-pinklers, losers, wankers, crybabies, assholes, and condescending dipshits. There are some more but I’ve wasted about as much time as I am on this self-righteous turd’s blubbering.
Harry in Atlanta
Oh, I forgot felchers.
Sandi
-MIke from Oregon said:
“One man’s oasis, is what level headed Americans call a cesspool.”
Here is a map of the Oasis/cesspoll for the [supply word here] donks.
CadillaqJaq
Sandi, Michael Moore has construed a similar map… the Northern area in blue is referred to as “The United States of Canada.” The Southern area below is referred to as “Jesusland.”
I guess he thinks that’s humorous. Al Francken would too I suppose. Yeah, everybody,let’s reach out to these folks and practice uniting rather than dividing. Where’s my olive branch?