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06/01/2003 Archived Entry: "I truly don't know what to make of this."
I truly don't know what to make of this.
Sure makes for interesting reading, tho.
Police hope to restore a damaged videotape showing a teenager clad only in a golden thong inline skating near Riverbend Golf course moments before another teenager videotaping the stunt was assaulted by a golfer.The golfer also smashed the video camera with a No. 9 iron, damaging the cassette, the two teenage boys said.
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Heck, the cops probably just want some basis for dumping a fine on those teenagers. Who cares if an older man assaults them, they want proof that the kids were using the vicinity as a skate park!
Posted by Min Rizor @ 06/01/2003 06:30 PM NY
...there's a whole lotta free-floating rage out there, and for some people, it frees up their rampaging id; their sub-conscious dreads.
We are a country that is terrified of sex, especially gay sex, and somewhere in this rabid golfer's mind, a little voice was telling him "there's naked bodies around, there gonna wanna have sex with me!" His reaction--primal and hateful.
He's so uncomfortable about it, that he wants it gone--by physical violence or otherwise. He doesn't even want to about it.
One thing this puritanical, evangelical Administration has done is taken the whole sense of wonder, of beauty, from a lot of people.
The last two years and change have been unremittingly grim; more people than I care to count have told me that their jobs are more stressful. Their relationships are suffering. The weather here in New York seems to mimic the mood. Wet, gray, grim, awful. Day after day.
And the tone comes from above. With Clinton, despite his flaws, there was a sense of the possibilities. With Bush? A victim of circumstance (the 9/11 shadow is over everything; and the Administration knows it better than anyone, and carves it up for use as it sees fit), but not a President who makes people comfortable in thinking "what next?"
We all need a break...
GMR
Posted by Glenn Raucher @ 06/05/2003 05:21 PM NY
