Elsewhere in the Statesman this weekend, editorial guru Arnold Garcia wandered in off the links long enough to pen an op-ed attacking the lowest of the low – his readers – and praying for their death.
Attaining levels of douchebaggery previously thought impossible, even by Garcia’s astronomical standards, he sniffs that Southern Methodist University’s competition for the George W. Bush presidential library is causing an “Austin-style snit” at the affluent Metroplex campus. Nowhere does Garcia attack the crux of the problem – that, in a break with traditional prez libraries, this one may come attached with a conservo think tank. Instead, he’s content to confine his hits to the dirty fucking hippies comprising the city of Austin. Perusing Kelso’s rejected gag list, Garcia deigns the library should be at the Concordia campus, near St. David’s, if only because it “could come in handy because of the heart attack epidemic that would erupt in nearby Hyde Park.”
A little hard to understand, we know, so here’s a translation: Christ, what an asshole.
This article appears in January 26 • 2007.