the personal:
So I met Missed Connection for a snack. I love the snack-meeting, because it gives lots of options. Are things going well? Great, take a walk after snacking. Would you rather dine with gassy Oompa Loompas than with your snack partner? Oh! Look, here's the check, and I must be going now. You can never go wrong with the snack-meeting.
Missed Connection is a little shy (yay!) and (get this) he drives a scooter. I was initially giddy to see the little scooter, and then I began pining for my erstwhile Vespa. I swear to god, it's like I was in love with Vespy, and then she was stolen, and my heart has never been the same since. Anyway, because I overanalyze things, I believe that my discussion of John Ashcroft as my buddy icon may have given Missed Connection little incentive to follow through with our tentative plans to hang out this week. Which leads to:
the political:
How to get away with torture: a memo
What that means: because it was confusing to me at first
The New York Times: "Mr. Ashcroft, who seemed uncomfortable during the sometimes tough questioning, often responded by saying that the United States was at war and the critics often failed to take that into account."
Long story short: Even though the United States doesn't condone torture and it's illegal, the president can give it the go-ahead, because, you know, we're at war and that justifies anything.
So I met Missed Connection for a snack. I love the snack-meeting, because it gives lots of options. Are things going well? Great, take a walk after snacking. Would you rather dine with gassy Oompa Loompas than with your snack partner? Oh! Look, here's the check, and I must be going now. You can never go wrong with the snack-meeting.
Missed Connection is a little shy (yay!) and (get this) he drives a scooter. I was initially giddy to see the little scooter, and then I began pining for my erstwhile Vespa. I swear to god, it's like I was in love with Vespy, and then she was stolen, and my heart has never been the same since. Anyway, because I overanalyze things, I believe that my discussion of John Ashcroft as my buddy icon may have given Missed Connection little incentive to follow through with our tentative plans to hang out this week. Which leads to:
the political:
How to get away with torture: a memo
What that means: because it was confusing to me at first
The New York Times: "Mr. Ashcroft, who seemed uncomfortable during the sometimes tough questioning, often responded by saying that the United States was at war and the critics often failed to take that into account."
Long story short: Even though the United States doesn't condone torture and it's illegal, the president can give it the go-ahead, because, you know, we're at war and that justifies anything.
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