“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Amazing But True Facts About Dave Henry's Column in Today's Globe-Repub

► Nearing the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States, David Henry wrote a column tastelessly gloating about Amarillo's "advantages" over Louisiana!

► In his column, Dave Henry offered up the following paragraph:

Hurricane evacuation routes are clearly marked on Louisiana highways. In Amarillo and the Panhandle, grass fires don't always offer an escape route and tornadoes can pop up with little advance warning. Still, it is hard to imagine getting through a major earthquake in California. Advantage: Push.
Amazing But True: This paragraph actually means something to David Henry!

► David Henry implies that the ideas for Cajun "eating establishments" were stolen from The Big Texan! And that Cajun food tastes like "an old shoe"!

► David Henry is so shallow a thinker that he cannot fill an 800-word column with words about the same topic! He writes about Louisiana, Mel Gibson, and the Ku Klux Klan in the very same column!

► David Henry is more offended by having to pay taxes than by the KKK's racism!

► David Henry is more offended by drunk driving than anti-Semitism!

► David actually commits the following to print! :
Mel Gibson may or may not be a bigoted anti-Semite. Even if he is, that's not against the law, nor will it cost innocent lives.
JCOAT. Even though Americans are notoriously ignorant of history, it is difficult to imagine methamphetamine addicts on the Boulevard who have never heard of the Holocaust.

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