morons and the rebuilding of New Orleans

via First Draft, I encountered an interesting post about New Orleans from a blog called "American Zombie" The author is describing dinner conversation in Los Angeles with a young-republican type:

I was having dinner in L.A. with some folks I knew, and some folks I didnt. I ended up sitting next to a guy I didnt know. He was a young guy, about to get an undergraduate degree in business and then go to law school. He was quick to inform everyone that he was a diehard republican and wanted to eventually become a judge. He was neatly groomed, a little too neat for a guy....you know the type. He was the kind of guy that has the world keenly compartmentalized in his mind...with an obsessive need to get the people he meets into those cerebral compartments. Kind of like the way Obi Wan described the Sith One who speaks in absolutes....you know the type.

I do my best to avoid young-republican types from the get-go, but when you're in a social setting, sometimes it's difficult to avoid it. This blogger goes on about feeling anger, etc., because the moron-American questions whether or not to rebuild New Orleans.

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but if I was at dinner with a moron in Los Angeles, and said moron questioned the logic of re-building my home town, I think I would remind said moron of how much federal money was pumped into Los Angeles after the 1994 earthquake. I'd also remind him that no doubt a bit of that money came from New Orleanians. I might even point out that nobody ever advocated moving away from one of the worst fault lines in the world because of the 1994 quake.

The biggest challenge to this discussion for me would be to try not to end each sentence with "you fucking asshole."

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