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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Saturday Big Blue Smurf Blogging: What They Said
Posted by Jill | 6:25 PM
Today's honoree: Athenae, subbing for the vacationing-from-blogging TBogg, on what is wrong with people who are rooting for the Gulf of Mexico disaster to prove to be unsolvable because it would mean an end to post-JFK optimism.

Money quote:
What kind of insulated, sheltered, non-reality reality do you have to be swimming around in that you can sit there and say that the killing of an ENTIRE OCEAN and the destruction of an ENTIRE THIRD OF THE DAMN COUNTRY’S ECONOMY would be okay because hey, then everybody will realize that Nixon was right and fuck Cambodia anyway and hippies smell?

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