Oh American darlings …

[blamebrampton]

I do feel for you. I have met so many smart, serious and intellectually curious citizens of the United States, and yet your political climate is so filled with people just like this one:

Suddenly the abject lunacy that surrounds health and science debates in your country has a whole new layer of horror attached. And thanks to Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content for the URL.

I'm off to see whether having a sore knee is a good enough excuse for wagging work now that hideous deadline has passed. A few laps of the hall ought to settle my conscience one way or the other.

Comments

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

You'd never get that over here.

The sun doesn't shine long enough for the pretty rainbows.

Why doesn't she assume it's a sign of god's covenant with her put into the sprinkler rather than a government plot. Has she no faith?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You know, I would actually think better of her if she did. It's the automatic leap to conspiracy theory that exasperates me. That and the fact she has obviously spent the last several decades paying no attention whatsoever to the world ...

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. It is the difference I notice between British stupid and US stupid. Our stupids blame all the immigrants. Their stupid get all paranoid abot teh Gumment.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I was on the train with a subcontinental looking and sounding chap the other day who proceeded to tell me why all of England's problems were the fault of people who looked like him and yet acted more English than the English.

I told him that a lot of the people I knew who looked like him were English, being second, third, sometimes fourth and fifth generation.

He told me that it was people like me who were ruining Australia. I'm still not sure how that conversation happened ...

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

blinks

Er I think he was being more English than the English there.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I didn't want to mention it, he had a glint in his eye. Still wondering why he chose to target me. He opened by asking what country I was originally from, I can only surmise it was the fact I was reading Margaret Drabble.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

He should have known you were the type to be ruiining Oz from that alone.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

In my defence, it was The Garrick Year. And there were no public readings.