Lunamania: 51

I just noticed this is my 51st entry. It'd be much zippier if I had noticed the 50th! or if this was the 1000th. Oh well.
Elaine directed me to a NY Times article detailing the amped up police presence in New York. The NYPD is deploying its full force of 37,000 officers for the week. The Times article notes that the NYPD's budget is larger than all but 19 of the world's standing armies.
Generally, such an oppressive concentration of armed individuals funded by a government in order to "protect the public" would be referred to as a police state. Sadly, these days conceiving of any US space, especially NY as a police state is normalized. People are saying...Police state? Yes! (cue children in NYPD t-shirts waving tiny flags and firefighters in BBQ-ing in the background) New York IS a police state! We LOVE the NYPD! We LIKES the postcards, keychains, ballcaps, ashtrays, t-shirts, shoe horns, g-strings, ice cube trays, all that stuffs w/the NYPD logo emblazoned on it. I'm thankful I don't live in NY, but rather in a state where we have a world dominating, true to form Termininator as Governor.
I'm tired and bitter this week, but I'm not concerned because I'm going to win Super Lotto tonight. I'm busting a Marlon Brando and buying my own island policed by 37,000 of my favorite people and animals. Keep hope alive...

Comments

Can I be a resident beach-bum on your island?

Looks like you and I are kind of on the same wavelength (and I don't mean our usual fashion wavelength... or maybe we are...). Check out my latest journal entries about the po-po.

Posted by: tony | August 31, 2004 10:19 AM

of course you can be a resident beach-bum of my island.
as for fashion wave-length. today i am wearing blue jeans, linen shirt and a pair of those SUV trail sneakers.

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