Imagined Conversations (4.14.14)

Spoken quotes from the week’s news in dialogue form.

A: New doors of opportunity swung open for everybody!

B: If we find out you voted…

A: They swung open for you and they swung open for me!

B: If we find out you voted, you won’t take your five fingers home.

A: My goodness, I didn’t know that solid waste management was so controversial!

B: Deepest apology for that crude interruption, but…

A: I reject such cynicism. Times are changing.

B: Ok, but if we find out you votedyour five fingers? Michele? You might not see them anymore. There is not a shortage of what we can use. Like, Bible. You’ll be like, “Everything was very efficient. I was knocked out for a bit while they looked in my stomach, and was home again a few hours later. Man, was I impressed.”

A: Brutality stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation.

B: No. Brutality, cynicismthose too are civil rights worth fighting for.

A:

B: Just sit at home and sort through invoices.