Spring Break
Noonan, Ashcroft offer unsatisfactory speech content
Steve Markley
Issue date: 4/4/06 Section: OpEd Page
We're talking about an attorney general who presided over the greatest set of infringements on the civil rights of Americans since the FBI undertook the task of wire-tapping such dangerous radicals as Martin Luther King Jr. We're talking about a man who had no problem with trampling the rights of Arabs and Arab-Americans in the "war on terror" yet strongly opposed a law that would have made it harder for suspected terrorists to buy firearms because it clashed with his unabashed worship of the Second Amendment.
When he speaks in Hall Auditorium Tuesday about "leadership," I'm assuming he'll be talking in-depth about how to successfully run a hegemonic world power into the ground while still impressing the ladies at the rotary club with his singing talents.
As for Noonan, the only thing I can think to do in protest of her sure-to-have-the-intellectual-heft-of-the-graffiti-at-Mac-n-Joes commencement speech (there's a remark above the urinal that says "Steve Markley performs oral sex on men," only not stated that elegantly) is to write on my cap, her own prophetic words of George W. Bush in a column from 2000. Bush, she wrote, "seems transparently a good person, a genuine fellow who isn't hidden or crafty or sneaky or mean, a person of appropriate modesty."
Most of us can't get insight into a person like that without a high-powered telescope embedded firmly in his or her colon.
When he speaks in Hall Auditorium Tuesday about "leadership," I'm assuming he'll be talking in-depth about how to successfully run a hegemonic world power into the ground while still impressing the ladies at the rotary club with his singing talents.
As for Noonan, the only thing I can think to do in protest of her sure-to-have-the-intellectual-heft-of-the-graffiti-at-Mac-n-Joes commencement speech (there's a remark above the urinal that says "Steve Markley performs oral sex on men," only not stated that elegantly) is to write on my cap, her own prophetic words of George W. Bush in a column from 2000. Bush, she wrote, "seems transparently a good person, a genuine fellow who isn't hidden or crafty or sneaky or mean, a person of appropriate modesty."
Most of us can't get insight into a person like that without a high-powered telescope embedded firmly in his or her colon.
