Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for October 15, 2010
October 08, 2010
October 22, 2010
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling Boston, 1773 Man: So it is agreed. We are to destroy the tea in protest of Britain's taxation without representation. Man #2: AND in protest of Boston's LOCAL taxes!! Man: Huh? No, we colonists DO have representation on that issue! Mrs. Watkins: Why should orphans and the deformed get support from the government? Man: Mrs. Watkins, you are a widow who receives support! Mrs. Watkins: That's not the point! Man: Ahem! Aren't the laws against polluting the streets another form of government tyranny? Man: Hear, hear! The Tanners' Association would like to make a DONATION to this Tea Party! Man #2: And the butchers! Man: I'm from Ye Olde FOX News-papers! Let's dump the tea at noon on Saturday! We'll get a HUGE CROWD to show up! Man: No! It's TONIGHT! Man #2: You can't plan a spontaneous movement without the funding of big business and Fox! Man: And what about all those Irish immigrants? Man #2: I just love what our colony used to be SO MUCH! Man #3: Stop! Our plan is to dress up as mohawks... Man #4: Oo! And Nazis! Can I be a Nazi? Man #5: What's a Nazi. Woman: By the way...I'm not a witch. Man #6: And we'll call it the Fox News-Paper Tea Party...
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This is a first-time post after a year or so of looking-in.
There’s certainly a substantial representation of the usual positions.
Over the past thirty years, we’ve elevated rapacious individualism–the non-virtue of selfishness–to a state of acceptability-by-overexposure, kind of like gratuitously lewd dialog in prime-time sitcoms. Alack and alas—and probably a bushel and a peck as well, it serves the common good not a dime’s worth, and seems to serve only a sort of auto-erotic purpose recently denounced by a rising belief-based candidate.
For an actual improvement of conditions, there may be some merit to moving to the center, reducing one’s name-calling-to-plain-talk ratio, and finding one’s indoor voice. Dated, but still better than actually working at being ignored.
Anyway, I’ve enjoyed most of the snappy repartee. Thanks for all the ginger.
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