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MORFORD: Free iPhone with Every Outrage!
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 3/28/8
| Mark Morford
Posted on 03/28/2008 8:06:58 AM PDT by SmithL
Bored with the 'war' on Iraq? 4,000 dead merely induce shrugging? Need an incentive to keep caring?
It is a time for a radical rethinking. It is a time to reconsider it all, to perhaps reassess how we are presenting and digesting America's most costly and lost and unwinnable and brutal and ignoble and inept and insidious and depressing war that's not really a war; it's time to revolutionize how it's all packaged and broadcast and pumped like hot sticky misery into the heavily narcotized American cultural bloodstream because, oh my God, we are sick sick sick of it all, and only getting sicker.
This is the problem: People are getting bored. Check that: People are already bored, insanely so, have been bored for a few years now, so utterly and thoroughly jaded and burned out on stories and pictures and woeful tales of Iraq and death and Baghdad and cluster bombs and burned-out trucks and limbless soldiers and flag-draped coffins and photos of a grinning George W. Bush posing with a horribly burned, mutilated U.S. soldier, it might as well be Lindsay Lohan snorting blow off the dashboard of an Escalade.
We have now accomplished 4,000 dead U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Did you see that headline? Did it cause anything but a stab of pain and a heavy sigh and a need to click a different headline, maybe the one about cute baby polar bears in Germany? Did you simply mash and mix that inglorious number with tales of wretched economic meltdown and torture and health care system collapse and roll it all into a little ball of sadness and hurl it at the wall of forgetfulness? You are not alone.
Yes, 4,000 dead soldiers was a miserable milestone indeed,
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: missmorford; morfordite; sandinvagina; sanfranciscovalues
Morfordite AlertYou've been warned!
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:06:59 AM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Oooh, did we get a bonus cowpile from Miss Morford this week?
}:-)4
2
posted on
03/28/2008 8:07:46 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Hey GOP...don't move toward the middle. Move the middle toward us.)
To: SmithL
King of the run-on sentence!
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:09:36 AM PDT
by
GodBlessRonaldReagan
(Big dog, big dog, bow-wow-wow! We'll crush crime, now, now, now!)
To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
King of the run-on sentence! - he cracked me up the other day with a short one liner. He wrote: "I just report the facts." it was hilarious.
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:20:09 AM PDT
by
SF Republican
(Conservatives wanted all or nothing, and they got it.)
To: SF Republican
Miss Morford wouln’t know a fact if it bit him/her/it in the butt!
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:33:40 AM PDT
by
GodBlessRonaldReagan
(Big dog, big dog, bow-wow-wow! We'll crush crime, now, now, now!)
To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
King QUEEN of the run-on sentence!Fixed.
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:54:47 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"—Ronald Reagan)
To: SmithL
One can sure tell when Morford’s had one too many Brandy Alexanders again can’t one.
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posted on
03/28/2008 11:28:10 AM PDT
by
VR-21
To: SmithL
Oh my God, I can't wait until I get a hot steaming cup of Abu Omar into my body... Sure, Mikey. Whatever.
Apparently the cure for America's boredom is to write tired, cliche-ridden polemics that...ah, that no one reads. Glad you're on our side, Mike. I think.
To: SmithL
Thanks for te warning.
Now i’ll attempt to read it.
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posted on
03/28/2008 11:34:07 AM PDT
by
mowowie
To: SmithL
Couldn’t get through it.
Poor Morford, I’m thinking that her dreams of an American homosexual peace utopia just might never happen.
poor gal.
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posted on
03/28/2008 11:40:36 AM PDT
by
mowowie
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