Whipped Cream Difficulties

Remember the Vietnam War? It was in all the papers. Anyway, the LAT has an interesting article about the POW bracelets that were popular at the time. Oddly enough, this came up in a recent family discussion…

So let’s see. People living in illegal lofts in NYC get a law passed in an attempt to make their lofts legal, and, in the process, bring those lofts under the same laws regulating other residential housing in NYC (including “rent stabliziation”). Loft owners respond as you might expect. Tenants are outraged. Film at 11.

Speaking of outrage, I usually don’t join in with Internet lynch mobs, but this…this train wreck is just too good to pass up. I’m reminded of something Harlan Ellison once said. Loosely paraphrased: arrogance you can work around. Stupidity you can deal with. But arrogant stupidity? There’s no cure for that.

Edited to add: Oh, yes. I knew there was something else I wanted to mention: this Slate review of The Anthology of Rap, in which the reviewer complains that the book is full of transcription errors. Transcribing rap lyrics is hard? You don’t say.

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