- ridiculously cheap alcohol. Getting absolutely plastered should cost something. It shouldn't be comparable to getting a very large McDonald's meal.
- anyone who talks about owning firearms in a non-chalant manner.
- 12-egg omlettes.
- commercials for hospitals
- USA! USA! USA!
- a political system with less than four parties.
- patriotism
- the phrase "The greatest country in the world" when not applied to Sweden.
- the above phrase spoken with dyed in the skin certainty.
- food portions that could feed a large village in Uganda. For a month.
- the term 'my country', especially when coupled with 'get out of'.
- flag colours displayed anywhere other than a goddamn flag. These include, but are not limited to, bandanas, shoes, entire body suits. Superheroes excluded.
- the pledge of allegiance. Sounds like something that members of a rather well-armed militia might have. I think it's the 'allegiance' bit. Makes one think of sides and armed conflict.
- Homeland Security. The entire border thing. I'm worried I'll say something completely wrong, give not quite the right answer, and be sucked into GitMo or somesuch. Of all the fears, this is the most real to me.
- how much coverage y'all give to lost blonde women from the mid-west.
- Wal-Mart
- the near gladiatoral fervour with which Monday Night Football is televised.
- 24-hour news which refuses to put quotes around 'news'.
Thanks to Jay Morrison for the photo. Transit Drivers Bus drivers are an archetype in North American culture. In the imagination they are generous in girth, have staunch opinions about unions and eat 300% the recommended intake of red meat. The odd one adheres to a strict conspiracy theory, which they manage to work into the most innocuous conversations. At least, that's what's been ingrained in our collective subconscious along with "Han shot first" and "Dukakis, 1988". But transit drivers, like everyone else, are individuals. Unique, utterly one of a kind from the 5 billion others who roam this spinning mass of molten iron with the cool, carbon life-form infested shell. Sure, you see the reticent ones, who have a 100 yard stare and coolly watch passengers get mild hypothermia while they take their union-sanctioned 15 minute break inside their cozy bus. But there are other, more colourful characters as well. In my city, there is one that calls out every st...
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Damn it.