April 9, 2007
LAMEST INVOCATION OF 9/11 OF ALL TIME, OR LATELY ANYWAY
Unfortunately, the passage of time and the resilience of our regional society following the 9/11/01 attacks has somehow been transformed from a source of pride for all, to a catch-all excuse to others. There is nothing political about this slide whatsoever, it is simply a case of grasping at tragic straws in order to cover one's suddenly-exposed rear end. The only metric of shame in play is how quotidian an embarassment can be used as a backdrop for a 9/11 invocation-as-explanation.
When a Union City, NJ school district found out that one of its employees or students had rung up $250 in Pay-Per-View charges with Cablevision while watching porn at one of its schools, an attorney for the district was quick to remind why cable boxes with pay-per-view porn were necessary in public schools:
"The board has cable boxes in the event of an emergency," education board attorney Thomas R. Kobin told the Jersey Journal of Jersey City for Saturday newspapers. "We are just a few minutes from the Lincoln Tunnel and New York City. There has been a history of attacks in New York City."Granted, if I found out there was a nuclear device planted in the Lincoln Tunnel "a few minutes away", I'd probably want to pull up some episodes of HBO's "Rome" for a few end-of-empire survival tips On-Demand, but even if there was a legitimately good reason for cable boxes in local schools, Kobin could probably state them explicitly without the stilted historical allusions. Tagged: 9/11, pathetic, porn, ppv, schools
Posted by Lexiphane at April 9, 2007 12:06 AM
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