Both Dog and Man

Dogs, too, have had their ancient liberties robbed of them, by the Yuppie class.

Letter to Andrew Sullivan #5

Andrew,

  Are you fucking joking? Steroids is such an overwhelming social force it
is here to stay, after all look at this anecdotal evidence from a wealthy
metropolitan gym? Spare me.

  You need to get out and deal with the People a little. That's right,
outside DC and NYC. Outside the middle class. Guess what: in the working
class, no one is on steroids; they don't go to the fucking gym, they
haven't got the money to be in a friggin' gym. They put bread on the table,
the kids on the school bus clothed and clean, and gas in the car for the
ride to work, and maybe take the wife and kids for an ice cream on Sunday.

  Your abuse of vanity-inducing substances is showing more clearly than
ever. That and your cossetted social milieu; you may think you're not a
Villager -- but you are of the Court, and not the Country: a truth
undeniable.

Sincerely,

Ben Cronin
Wareham, Mass.

p.s. To the guy who was ordered to get rid of his gut by the shallow
privileged girl or scram: should have taken the bus out of that fucking
incipient misery-marriage while it was still running! Best 'a luck with
Mrs. Stepford there.