Shot In The Dark: If You Don't Eat Your Meat, You Can't Drink the Bong Water

April 24, 2006

If You Don't Eat Your Meat, You Can't Drink the Bong Water

The letter of the day - for both this blog and the Strib - appeared in the Strib this morning. The author is one Mark Anderrson:

I was shocked to hear that Macalester's student government allotted student funds to hold a festival (later canceled by college officials) for the legalization of marijuana. It's not the political stance that shocks me. I am a Macalester graduate from '01. As a first-year student at Mac in '97, some fellow classmates and I tried to start the Macalester Meat Eating Society. Needless to say it came as no surprise to me that the Mac student government from that time denied our charter, saying that our club was [wait for it...wait for it...]discriminatory. I expected nothing less from such a liberal school.

It'd say that's pretty dang discerning for a Mac grad...

What shocks me about today's news is how things have changed in such a short period of time. Apparently First Amendment rights are worth protecting for clubs promoting the legalization of narcotics but not for people who choose to eat meat.

Mark wins today's prize - a genuine "Wellstone - Accident, or...?" protest sign. Thanks for playing!

Posted by Mitch at April 24, 2006 06:45 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Angryclown is on a strict Soylent Green diet.

Posted by: angryclown at April 24, 2006 08:30 AM

It's a cookbook! IT'S A COOKBOOK!!

Posted by: Beeeej at April 24, 2006 02:45 PM

You can take the boy out of the frat house, but you can't take the frat house out of the boy.

Posted by: The Rat at April 24, 2006 05:11 PM

Sad. But not surprising.

Posted by: jimmyb at April 25, 2006 05:07 AM

It occurs to me that any student or group of students that take the steps to start a meat eating society -- seemingly to tweak vegetarians -- have a little too much time on their hands. Studies at Macalester must not be challenging enough.

Posted by: The Rat at April 25, 2006 06:56 AM

And that is different than students who join PETA and waste time protesting, vandalizing, and destroying property to tweak meat eaters, how, exactly?

Posted by: Bill C at April 25, 2006 09:28 AM

It's simple. Weed is good. Meat is bad. Really.

Again:

Psychedelic drugs alter human consciousness toward a state of evolving enlightenment.

About 30% of deaths in western societies are the result of animal products in the diet.

Get over your puny ego fears and join the loving connectedness of true spirit.

Don't be stupid.

Posted by: dennis crow at April 25, 2006 09:31 AM

"Psychedelic drugs alter human consciousness toward a state of evolving enlightenment...join the loving connectedness of true spirit."

Why, yes. Now that you mention it, I do feel the need to try to move things to a higher plane, to evolve, to transcend the petty, brutish nastiness of the daily grind...

"Don't be stupid."

DOH!

Posted by: mitch at April 25, 2006 09:56 AM