This riposte to Joe Klein by Mickey Z came via JayVinVT in comments over at Wis(s)e Words (see, I put the brackets in) :
Top Ten Reasons Why the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchal Culture (WSCPC) …
…Will Not be Toppled Any Time Soon1. The “average American” (AvAm) believes in the two-party/land of opportunity/god’s country scam
2. The AvAm is too busy “just getting by” to worry about the WSCPC
3. Not tonight, “American Idol” is on
4. Now is not the time; we’ve got evil-doers to kill, goddammit
5. What passes for dissent usually involves asking permission to hold a sign
in a predetermined “free speech zone” for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon6. To seriously challenge the WSCPC is to invite potential imprisonment and/or physical threat
7. The AvAm would gleefully turn in anyone willing to take such drastic measures to provoke change
8. Decades of intense conditioning have made the WSCPC virtually invisible to the AvAm
9. Uh…what was I saying?
10. Never mind…
And before I forget, Happy 5th birthday to Martin and Wi(s)se Words (see, I remembered twice even!), beginning the sixth consecutive unbroken year of blogging, which is longer than most and longer than the Iraq war. . I started not long after him but at Take It As Red, which I’ve put on hiatus since the advent of our life and blog-mateship in 2003.
All these self-proclaimed blogging Kool Kidz? Hah. They’re just babies man, they’re just babies…
