Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Morford misses a big one
Mark Morford writes:
We beg of thee, President St. Bush, renounce the Internet of always-on pot smoking Canadian hippies, sodomites, Saddamites, speakers of Quebecois Francais, practitioners of socialized medicine and breech-loaders who abhor torture and children maimed by left-over land mines. We beseech thee to provide meager connectivity for dial-up beer-drinking patriotic semi-automatic born-again overweight father-knows-best heteros who won't wait in line to gas up their SUVs for the football game.
It's getting more confusing by the minute, isn't it? I mean, Canada now has legal medical pot and legal gay marriage and universal health care and no known terrorist enemies and a relatively successful multiparty political system. They also have, according to U.N.'s Human Development Index, one of the highest qualities of life in the world. All coupled with a dramatically reduced rate of gun violence and far better gun-control legislation than the U.S., despite having the exact same per capita rate of gun ownership and gun-sport enthusiasm.Morford misses a mightily manifest fact: Canada is #3 in per-capita broadband penetration and the Good Old USA (USA! USA!) is 15th. For every two U.S. Citizens who are always-on, Canada has three.
We beg of thee, President St. Bush, renounce the Internet of always-on pot smoking Canadian hippies, sodomites, Saddamites, speakers of Quebecois Francais, practitioners of socialized medicine and breech-loaders who abhor torture and children maimed by left-over land mines. We beseech thee to provide meager connectivity for dial-up beer-drinking patriotic semi-automatic born-again overweight father-knows-best heteros who won't wait in line to gas up their SUVs for the football game.
Comments:
Canada is a free-rider on the US economy and defense system with a 7.3% rate of unemployment.
By demanding broadband from the government you are, in effect, asking low-income working people to subsidize a middle- and upper-middle-class hobby. That's not the way we do things in America, dude.
By demanding broadband from the government you are, in effect, asking low-income working people to subsidize a middle- and upper-middle-class hobby. That's not the way we do things in America, dude.
isendude,
i've been a fan for a long time (well, from the first week that the Stupid Network appeared, anyway) and i'm no absolutely not a fan of cancerous american monoculture, but when i read something like this particular post, it convicts me of my own hypocrisy. if we're so disappointed in this country, why are we still here? if it's really that bad here, or that good there, why aren't one or both of us already living in canada? by the way, i'm a born again who seldom drinks beer or watches football, i voted for gore AND kerry, working to help the democratic party past it's blind allegience to morons like Ron Reagan (the ultimate mole?) and Maureen Down, and i am totally in agreement with the vast majority of your positions. demonizing born again christians does no more good than demonizing muslims, but it seems that the former has become a completely acceptable (and even 'enlightened') pastime for far too many. finally, i'm no fan of "christians" either ... but none of that makes the historical facts of the life that jesus led or the unbelievable unlikely number of prophesies he fulfilled, any less likely. :)
god bless you my brother and keep fighting the good fight!
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i've been a fan for a long time (well, from the first week that the Stupid Network appeared, anyway) and i'm no absolutely not a fan of cancerous american monoculture, but when i read something like this particular post, it convicts me of my own hypocrisy. if we're so disappointed in this country, why are we still here? if it's really that bad here, or that good there, why aren't one or both of us already living in canada? by the way, i'm a born again who seldom drinks beer or watches football, i voted for gore AND kerry, working to help the democratic party past it's blind allegience to morons like Ron Reagan (the ultimate mole?) and Maureen Down, and i am totally in agreement with the vast majority of your positions. demonizing born again christians does no more good than demonizing muslims, but it seems that the former has become a completely acceptable (and even 'enlightened') pastime for far too many. finally, i'm no fan of "christians" either ... but none of that makes the historical facts of the life that jesus led or the unbelievable unlikely number of prophesies he fulfilled, any less likely. :)
god bless you my brother and keep fighting the good fight!
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: 12/20/2004 5:29 PM
: 12/20/2004 5:29 PM
