Posted by
TheBean on Monday, December 22, 2008 2:53:53 PM
In Kirksville, MO, wherefrom I hail, it is a known fact that one does
not misbehave in periods when the police are likely to be bored (that
is, when the college students are out of town on break). Two of my
friends were illegally searched by ennui-ridden fuzz for looking at the
stars on a country road, and other friends were expelled from a gazebo
for misty reasons probably rooted in the absence of true-crime stories
taking place in the Ville.
I made the mistake of reading a Breitbart "OMG-It's-So-Cold" story today, and was confronted by the following tidbit:
"It's so cold, it feels like needles are
pricking my eyes," grumbled 19-year-old Ashley Sarpong of Chicago, a
fur-lined hood pulled around her face Sunday. "This is the coldest I've
felt all year."
With respect and props to Ashley S for her pithy simile, it seems that the press is suffering from bored-police syndrome.