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Saturday, July 27, 2002
I recall my young nephew getting into the liquor cabinet some time back while his parents were away. The results were both disastrous and predictable. The lad lacked an adult-level tolerance for the stuff he freely guzzled, and had yet to negotiate a proper boozy comportment, something acquired only with sustained effort.
To this day the young man grows as red as David Horowitz circa 1969 when the episode is broached at family conclaves. He was but 11 at the time, so he cannot be faulted. 18-year-old simian Ben Shapiro - identified in his Town Hall biography as a UCLA undergrad, thus illustrating the conservative assertion that the enterprise of public education has failed singularly - cannot invoke the same defense. If he's not yet ashamed of himself for offering up such shit as below, I doubt he will ever achieve compassion, learning, and good sense enough to realize just how ridiculous and obnoxious he in fact is:
I am getting really sick of people who whine about "civilian casualties." Maybe I'm a hard-hearted guy, but when I see in the newspapers that civilians in Afghanistan or the West Bank were killed by American or Israeli troops, I don't really care.