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Christine Flowers: WTF???
The other images that come up are pretty awesome, too. And, hey, look! Image number two is from a Philadelphia Will Do post from 2006, about a hilarious Flowers column celebrating the closing of Club Kama Sutra. There’s also a horse’s ass and some other people named Christine Flowers (or Flower). (Searching my name brings up things like photos I took for the summer version of my college newspaper. As well as some incredibly old photos. Anyway, I was searching for Flowers’ name because of this letter in today’s Daily News from Dan Larkin, clearly a brilliant man with a certificate in Recognizing Daily News Columnist Bullshit. (I teach this small class, at University of Phoenix. Eh, it’s okay, you know, but I’m looking to start a program and get tenure somewhere else.) Larkin noticed a few words in Flowers’ Friday column about John Pryor, the Penn doctor killed serving in Iraq. He was only 42. It’s a sad story, and Flowers actually does a pretty good job on the standard eulogizing-someone-you-don’t-know column. Then, at the end, she just can’t resist. Penultimate sentences:
Yeah, I know: “This from someone who’s a pro-lifer???” But it’s more than that. It’s that in her column about a doctor who died serving in Iraq, she just can’t resist writing about how she just wants some people to be dead. How sad. How pathetic. How absolutely offensive to John Pryor. I hope Flowers has to explain that one in the afterlife: “Yeah, sorry I couldn’t just eulogize you there, I needed to add in a dig about how I like it when certain people die at the end there. You’re down with that, right?” It almost makes you so angry you just want to make an image macro of Dan Ackroyd from Weekend Update. Christine M. Flowers: A hero in scrubs [Daily News] |
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The image at right is the lovable father from That 70s Show. And why am I posting an image of Red saying “Dumbass!”? No, not because I caught a first-season episode the other day and Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis and Topher Grace were all so young and oh it was so cute. I’m posting it because it’s the fifth result 
The last time I checked, “expendable” means “easily replaced.” Some people are actually more easily replaced than others. And some we do not WANT to replace like say Timothy McVeigh or Jim Jones. People like Dr. Pryor are of course NOT easily replaced because they in fact lead exemplary lives and often at great sacrifice. Yes, indeed some lives are less expendable than others.
Actually, you must not have checked. “Expendable” means not worth salvaging, or dispensible.
Christine Flowers’ writing is expendable.
personally, i prefer the first result, because you can actually see the smugness and hatred oozing from her pores.
brendancalling, both meanings are valid. Some lives are not worth as much as others. We all know that. There are some really bad people in this world that who would want to replace them? I can think of plenty of people who are dispensable. Sometimes when a true hero comes along, a real man with true charity in his heart, like Dr. Pryor, who is so exceptional, it makes us look around at all the weak cowards around us and wonder why they get all the breaks. Nobody said anything about hate. Hate is a very strong word. Pity is more like it.