Saturday, July 23, 2005
In the news...
I didn't grasp what the objective of the Egyptian bombing was (i.e., why Egypt??? London, Paris, NY, I can understand... but Egypt?)
'We shot the wrong man' - Police
This was so weird.
Why was he wearing a big coat in the middle of the summer? And why didn't he just stop when police approached him if he was just a legal foreign worker? Was he involved in other types of wrongdoing? Or did he think the police was not the police? Was he one of these completely dense people and misread the whole thing so that he started fleeing for some bizarre reason, maybe thinking the police were robbers? Was the British police instructed to make this mistake because this guy is involved in something else?
Such a weird picture altogether. In any case, trigger-happy indeed.
I don't know who this Rollins is, but I do know how insane our culture is about slapping a homo label on several men and women who aren't. It's more than obsessive, it's like a mental disease, equivalent to how people were obsessed about slapping the witch label on certain women in the past.
At the same time, "society" hates to recognize how many married people are bisexual, always automatically framing any married person as being heterosexual.
Humans are such dinosaurs.
'We shot the wrong man' - Police
This was so weird.
Friday's shooting before horrified commuters prompted criticism of police for overreacting and expressions of fear that Asians and Muslims would be targeted by a ``trigger-happy culture'' after two well-coordinated attacks in two weeks.
Why was he wearing a big coat in the middle of the summer? And why didn't he just stop when police approached him if he was just a legal foreign worker? Was he involved in other types of wrongdoing? Or did he think the police was not the police? Was he one of these completely dense people and misread the whole thing so that he started fleeing for some bizarre reason, maybe thinking the police were robbers? Was the British police instructed to make this mistake because this guy is involved in something else?
Such a weird picture altogether. In any case, trigger-happy indeed.
Punk icon HENRY ROLLINS is furious when his sexuality is questioned - because he's never met anyone as blatantly "un-gay" as himself.
I don't know who this Rollins is, but I do know how insane our culture is about slapping a homo label on several men and women who aren't. It's more than obsessive, it's like a mental disease, equivalent to how people were obsessed about slapping the witch label on certain women in the past.
At the same time, "society" hates to recognize how many married people are bisexual, always automatically framing any married person as being heterosexual.
Humans are such dinosaurs.
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