It's a Boston Creme Wave!
Via Drudge: Another conservative was hit with a pie while speaking on a college campus. This time it was David Horowitz, speaking at Butler University. His unidentified assailant managed to escape.
Apparently people haven't gotten the memo: the next attack was to take the form of an entree, preferably a nice juicy steak, not another dessert. We'll never be able to put together a complete, balanced meal if we just keep skipping right to sweet, sweet pie.
On a more serious note, this string of food-based attacks is beginning to worry me just a bit. It's not that the pie-in-the-face thing is itself too serious; it's not. It's pretty hard to actually hurt somebody with a pie, and besides it's a classic American comedy gag. Maybe that's what disturbs me so much: these kids aren't wacky pranksters with a very off-kilter sense of humor; they're activists who're attacking prominent figures on the other side, and have chosen a means of assault that's sufficiently disarming that the story is classed as "news from lighter side" rather than as a serious attempt to punish conservative speakers for having the temerity to even set foot on a college campus. I'm not saying it's just a short step from pies to Molotov cocktails, but I do think it's a bad thing if the ordinary rules of decorum that govern civil discourse - like, say, don't assault guest speakers - start to break down.
UPDATE: The Brainerd offers an interesting analogy to A Time to Kill
Apparently people haven't gotten the memo: the next attack was to take the form of an entree, preferably a nice juicy steak, not another dessert. We'll never be able to put together a complete, balanced meal if we just keep skipping right to sweet, sweet pie.
On a more serious note, this string of food-based attacks is beginning to worry me just a bit. It's not that the pie-in-the-face thing is itself too serious; it's not. It's pretty hard to actually hurt somebody with a pie, and besides it's a classic American comedy gag. Maybe that's what disturbs me so much: these kids aren't wacky pranksters with a very off-kilter sense of humor; they're activists who're attacking prominent figures on the other side, and have chosen a means of assault that's sufficiently disarming that the story is classed as "news from lighter side" rather than as a serious attempt to punish conservative speakers for having the temerity to even set foot on a college campus. I'm not saying it's just a short step from pies to Molotov cocktails, but I do think it's a bad thing if the ordinary rules of decorum that govern civil discourse - like, say, don't assault guest speakers - start to break down.
UPDATE: The Brainerd offers an interesting analogy to A Time to Kill
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