Friday, February 18, 2005

Manbag Politics

This guy in my class has one of those leather manbags instead of a simple bookbag, which pisses me off to start with. I still have my LL Bean bookbag from 10th grade, complete with the RPS initials. Just because you're in college now doesn't mean you have to get an "adult" designer megapurse to carry your pens and notebooks.

On this guy's bag is a bumper sticker taped on there that has stars and blue and red colors. The message says in big letters, "Bandwagon Patriot" and underneath, "Loving America since 9-11-01." Hmm, I guess that's sarcasm. I'm glad that you are such a smug elitist that you have to display your holier-than-everyone cynicism everywhere you go. You just HAVE to let people know how above you are of being proud of your country, the right to display such trash, and having sensitivity towards the greatest tragedy this country has ever seen.

I bet if someone he was close to was killed in the attacks he'd be stuffing his arrogant, useless thoughts right back down his pompous throat. This guy will never help this country in anyway. He'll just sit back on his thrift store couch and smirk along with Jon Stewart and criticize everyone in authority when he'll never experience the pressure of making important decisions in a world where problems aren't black and white with simple solutions.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Damn right Ryan, damn right.