pynchon-l-digest V2 #2096

[FrodeauxB at aol.com]

Dear Otto, 
Great post. Your take on politician's denying things is all too often exactly 
the situation. Who among them is not the opportunist? When the NPR 
commentator said that after 9-11 that Congress was in a rush to pass laws 
which the American people would feel (not believe, mind you) helped the 
situation, I cynically told my beautiful wife, "So, that's news? Isn't that 
what they always do?"  At least I can say that without fear of the organs of 
state security a/k/a Office of Homeland Security Why does that sound 
so...well, apartheid era South African? At least, for now.

Bonus bulletin-for all those who think we males don't examine our thought 
processes critically:
The 
LAT goes inside to report on another post-911 upswing, 
especially among Manhattanites: "terror sex." The story 
quotes one man who exemplifies the trend: "'What's sick is 
that on the day that it happened, I watched the towers 
crumble, and then I'm walking north, really freaked out, but 
I was noticing more women than I ever do,' said an unmarried 
Manhattan record executive in his 30s who contacted several 
women he was dating casually, all of whom he has had sex with 
since the attacks. 'Usually there are girls where you say 
she's not my type. Everything was my type all of a sudden.'"  

TTFN,

frodeauxb