This fellow showed up yesterday by my Dumpster, referencing my defense of laundering drug money through Philanthropists and other Persons of Interest in High Places. He said his name is Schweik, and that he is here to Defend the Security of the Homeland. I asked if I was under House Arrest. He said that Homeless People and those designated as Undesirable come under a Special Program, "Operation Enduring Civil Rights," and that I would be informed in due time of the disposition of my case. Schweik is not a bad guy, just doing his bit in the War against Terror, Drugs, and Illiteracy. Bad things happen in war. I just hope they don't happen to me.
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If you've ever rolled up a body in a carpet and thrown it in a dumpster, you already know and should not be surprised: dumpsters reverberate: Cone of Silence.
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I think this is why The Sopranos is popular - it's a very entertaining and colloquial metaphor for the death of the public sphere.
Posted by: klaus | June 17, 2007 at 07:14 PM
Not sure about media transparency, or the Sopranos, but the Cone of Silence seems promising. Good manners operate like that, don't you think?
Posted by: Phil | June 17, 2007 at 08:47 PM
Jane Austen was indeed the underrated genius of non-spectacular everydayness. The blogosphere should be grateful for the existence of a precedent that can be invoked without reference to the defacements of public properties by anonymous pamphleteers.
Posted by: klasu | June 17, 2007 at 09:29 PM
Sounds promising. I should branch out from teaching morals to America's Wealthiest Families to teaching manners or literature. Or maybe piano. Or the art of the duel?
Posted by: Phil | June 17, 2007 at 10:23 PM
I suspect they have all the manners, literature and music they feel they need.
Duels ? quaint when you've already got a handgun under the seat or in your purse.
Posted by: JJ Commoner | June 18, 2007 at 03:57 PM
A Ten Point Morals Checklist? You may need a Morals Tutor if .....?
Posted by: Phil | June 18, 2007 at 06:45 PM