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Carcinogenic Fluff

Reading an article like this gives one from the bumpkiny Midwest the impression that there are all sorts of covert phrases therein, much like, when GWB dropped a reference to Dred Scott in a presidental debate, he was really talking about abortion. Oblique to hand-wringing liberals, crystalline to the evangelical crowd.

Similarly, phrases in this article like “but you probably knew that” and “heckling the less fortunate” are little handshakes to a “you” that isn’t in a 1,000 mile radius from me (although certainly there are those in the Twin Cities that aspire, always aspire). And it’s simulatenously a hearty “fuck you” to the not-quite-a-living-wage set.

What is that tone? The cluck-clucking about snobbishness that is, itself, snobby?

Author, author!

ALSO INSERT PICTURE OF TOM WOLFE’S DAUGHTER HERE!

Tue, August 2 2005 » Polis

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