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Cuba, Miami ... and Australia
Beth reports that Molly tells her that the Elian story is now higher in media saturation than JFK Jr. or Princess Di. But not yet caught up with O.J.
If you're in Australia - and at least four of you are that I hear from quasi-regularly - I deeply, sincerely hope that paragraph was cryptic to you. Because this is the kind of stuff that makes me want to apply for emigration to your country.
(Or to New Zealand, where according to a member of the TG Fiction list
there's a new lot of STARS (Simple Tips About Road Safety) billboards. These billboards (10 feet tall and 20 feet wide) show a famous person's face and a simple road safety message that also relates to the famous person. For example, a while ago there was David Lange, a well known socialist (left wing) politician, now retired, with the message "Keep Left" (we drive like the English do).
The new one I saw today, features Georgina Beyer, New Zealand's and the World's first Transsexual Member of Parliament, smiling gently. The message reads, "Brake on the Straight."
Now that's a country with their attitudes in the right place. But I digress.)
Actually, I got a lot of mail in response to my plaintive wail of "Why doesn't Clinton just march Reno in and take the kid?" question a few days ago. (I didn't ask it quite like that, but that's what it amounted to.) And I can sum up the many excellent answers I got thus:
1. Waco.
2. Electoral votes.
Florida is a big state with lots of electoral votes which badly needs to swing Democratic, and although that doesn't quite explain Clinton's reluctance to piss off the ex-Cuban bloc (I mean, the man doesn't care who he annoys at this point in his term, right?), in conjunction with Fear Of Another Waco, it explains everything.
And the Australians still don't understand what I'm talking about ... I hope. (Memo to G: I never thought I'd say this, but sometimes ignorance of another nation's news is a good thing.)
So enough said about that. Except perhaps: I have always had a certain grudging fondness for Janet Reno, even when she screws up, but this is the first time I have actually been able to feel sympathetic for her. Rock on one side, hard place on the other. The Danziger cartoon this morning had her in a lifeboat, sailing for Cuba, trying to find somewhere she'd actually be permitted to carry out the duties of her office.
Hey, all this beats talking about overwork and sleeplessness, both of which are still ongoing. (Heather and Molly: Your CGI work will be done this weekend, I swear it. I'm rowing my lifeboat as fast as I can.)
© Columbine
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