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so much depends upon a white lawn chair | 2002-06-01 - 11:21 p.m. Five days after Abuelita coerced me to buy that pink monstrosidad of a bridesmaid's dress, I am sitting on an airplane; hurtling toward Las Vegas, Abuelita's wedding, and the absolute humillaci�n that seguramente awaits me there. I am a turbulent melting pot of emociones. My gnawing dread of Abuelita's wedding, my horror at finding myself seated one row away from the toilets, and my frustraci�n over missing this year's ALMA Awards are all blending into a nauseating stew of malestar. Gracias a dios they still have those airsickness bags in the .... ulffff... perd�n ... Ahh, that's better. To take my mind off of the nauseabundo estench of the meal my seatmate has begun consuming, I have opened the latest issue of Newsweek across my tray table. I am warily eying the ads for sports utility vehicles and cigarettes when I come across this:
Now, I am as compasiva as the next muchacha, and cada vez I sit down to rezar, I pray for peace in the embattled Middle East. But even my compasi�n is stretched when the de facto leader of the Palestinians stages a press event to mourn the destruction of a tacky lawn chair. What a complete and outrageous lack of perspective! I think. Have Arafat's powers of discernment really become so warped by all these years of violencia? Doesn't he know that he can get a replacement for only $3.98 at Walmart?
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pride and prejudice - 2004-09-07
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