November 23, 2004

The Angry American

  ROB, in the middle of chopping apples for his family holiday signature dish, Waldorf Salad, turns to YOU.  

Yeeeesh!

America is so ready for the Thanksgiving Holiday break this year!

Maybe it's the aftermath of the vicious Presidential election campaign of '04, maybe it's the ambient testosterone of war . . . but the national nerves are frayed.

Over the weekend, college football rivals Clemson and University of South Carolina brawled on the field, a rare occurrence that would have been front-page news were it not for ---

the National Basketball Association players who waded into the crowd the night before, throwing fists into fans' faces.

Then, on Sunday, here in a part of the world where deer hunting is a sacred annual ritual, after a territorial dispute involving a tree stand (a tiny shelf up a tree where hunters sit and wait, covered in camouflage and deer urine) a man opened fire on other hunters with a (legal) assault rifle, killing six and wounding two.

Let's all take a deep breath and count to ten. Gobble, gobble.

 

Posted by rob at November 23, 2004 08:14 AM