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[Michael Bailey]

quick flashback:  Fascism for Freedom...this is a lot like
Goldwater's "extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice", I mean a
LOT like it....

when I was but a teen, and an artsy-fartsy stoner at that,
I used to say, chiming in, ringing changes,
"incoherence in the pursuit of beauty is no vice" (though I've
revisited that stance...)
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"Doc lit up a Kool, reached in his fringe bag and found Denis's
photo of Coy Harlingen."

naturally he would have a fringe bag!

Bigfoot agrees to look into the Coy situation...

he has a therapist, and has to share the chocolate-covered bananas.
Now why would he be going to a therapist?  Probably has to...
anger-management.  This is one of those improbable nodes that
could conceivably happen, if you define "happen" flexibly.
The touchy-feely guys occasionally do get some authority over
police officers...

Like the scene with the waitress in The Belaying Pin, it's not any type
of humor that I'm used to.  "Why are you telling me this?"
At this juncture, the works need some chocolate-covered bananas
jammed into them, I guess.  But not only that, it works:

So if a police officer with a solid work history gets in a kerfuffle
about extra force used, and some citizen's review board gets involved,
I really can see how the department would send him to therapy,
and I can really see how, without jeopardizing his standing, he could
send bananas to Internal Affairs, or a certain distance up his own
chain of command, actually getting some smiles for his pains.

It's no weirder than some of the stuff they do on TV cop shows!

And, in a properly meditative mood, it is refreshing to think of
a chocolate covered banana whizzing along in a pneumatic
tube and falling into somebody's inbox.


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