We can give a man his reason for
ours. If there is an exhaustion
in America with the spectacle of
sanctimony's cruelty, it has not
come from the spectacle of satir-
ic sexuality. It has come because
genocide was seen, and judged to
be too high a price for schaden-
freude. I know this and you know
this; and while we might delight
in the President's endearing sim-
iles and smile at simple recitals
from our history, no one can turn
a page of it with a greeting card
obliviousness, to those who fell
too near and too well to have lost.
But the President's negligent con-
descensions lost even this excuse
of flattery, in his grotesque mis-
constructions of the Equal Protec-
tion Clause. We are likely to have
to visit them, given the gravity
his enemies are only too glad to
heap upon a rhetorical spectacle
of advanced laziness.
For now, it is simply urgent to
affirm that there would be no con-
stituency to be so lazily blessed,
if the government of the United
States had not elected itself re-
peatedly on its unprecedented and
unequalled suffering.
ashtray in glass with poinsettia
photography Laurent
