Raise the Voting Age to 30!- Years ago, I used to work at a software company with this pinhead kid. He'd just graduated from Macalester (aka "Berkeley on the Prairie"), and it showed; he had the same loopy-left retro-sixties naivete about the world around him that would have seemed mildly charming had it not been so aggressively, debasingly smug.
This guy's big ambition was to open the first internet service provider in Havana. He felt that Cuba was "already free", and probably a better place to live than the US.
This article, by David Wallis, talks about the attitude on the part of similar students.
I think the guy in my story ended up working for some el-floppo dotcom in San Francisco. So he nearly achieved his goal, after all!
Posted by Mitch at March 5, 2002 07:23 AM