Posted on April 11, 2008 - by Hubba
An Unhealthy Dose of Irreverence
This week’s issue of the Pennington County Courant featured a lengthy front-page article about WHS Senior Amanda Johnson’s senior project.
For her senior project, Ms. Johnson drafted a medical emergency plan for the city of
Pandemic illnesses are nothing to laugh or, ahem, sneeze at. I hope and pray that Ms. Johnson’s plan never has to be employed. Further, and for what it’s worth (I don’t know Amanda very well) we should all feel privileged to know someone with the compassion and self-sacrifice to turn her senior project into something that practical, helpful, and beautiful. Amanda, I’m very glad that the county recognized your efforts.
All of the above noble sentiments did not stop me from finding amusement in the plan, and as my hero G.K. Chesterton says, “funny is the opposite of not funny, and of nothing else,” meaning, I think that it’s ok to laugh at serious stuff. I can only hope that Ms. Johnson does not take offense to the following-
In the article, there was an inset box listing the classes of people prioritized for vaccinations against whatever bugaboo comes down the pike. There were twenty-one classes of people, and their order for the most part made sense; medical personnel first, persons at or over 65 years of age with one or more serious medical conditions second, etc., etc. But in twentieth place, only beating out “Angry White Protestant Males” in order of importance, were “Funeral Directors.”
I guess at that point, it really wouldn’t matter much…
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April 11, 2008
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Sure are some good kids who’ve graduated from that school.
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April 13, 2008
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Was there really a category of “angry white males”?? If so, those b****rds should have been last, no?
You’re too young to remember but there was a plane crash at Sious City, Iowa that a tv movie was made about. It was an incredible story and part of it was about the guy in charge of organizing the emergency response team in the city. He prepared for a commercial plane crash and how you would get a large number of injured survivors to the hospitals. Everyone made fun of him for years and then when the time came he became a hero because his plan worked so well.
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April 13, 2008
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No the actual last place category was, I believe, “healthy persons 2-64 years of age,” ie everybody else. I said “Angry White Protestant Males” for comedic effect. Any way you look at it though, I was in the last category. Jill, does that make me a b******d, lol?
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April 14, 2008
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Well, of course! If you’re a young, white male isn’t that pretty much how you are viewed by the victim grievance establishment?
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April 14, 2008
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Does it help if I’m Catholic?…
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April 15, 2008
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No! That makes it worse! Face it, buddy, you have a big target on your back since you are an evil oppressor of women, children, minorities, the environment, atheists, wickins, animals, homo-sapiens (as my little sister affectionately refers to the sexually confused amongst us) and according to your own testimony, an abuser of the arts! You are just plain eeevill beyond redemption unless you should renounce all sins and worship at the alter of identity politics and liberalism.