Tuesday, October 19, 2004

chop and hack

Saturday morning I shaved off my goatee as I try to do with semi-regularity, and whimsically decided to give myself a Hitler mustache. I never left my apartment with it but it would have been an intriguing experiment. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with it, you know Hitler wasn't the only one who had it, there was also Charlie Chaplin. And as my friend Pat put it when I told him about it "Enough time has passed."

Speaking of bloody tyrants, it occurs to me that there were many reasons to oppose the invasion of Iraq, ranging from the humanitarian to the pragmatic to those obvious to anyone remotely capable of rational thought, but one of them was surely that by deposing and jailing Saddam Hussein, we've robbed ourselves of the best long term villain this country ever got going (Bin Laden doesn't count, he's hardly proved his mettle as long term, most people never heard of him before 2001 and hardly anyone had before 1998) Now we've got like, Castro. Ooh Castro...scary...

If you're roughly my age (26) and have never found yourself in a conversation about how the lyrics of Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" aren't really ironic, please e-mail me, as I have serious doubts about your existence.

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