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Friday, January 28, 2005

WARD CHURCHILL (Chair, Ethnic Studies,
University of Colorado at Boulder)
ON IRRITATING CELL PHONE USERS:

“The individuals in the buildings that they hit were being far too busy acquiring the best cup of cappuccino in New York or Washington DC and arranging dinner dates on their cell phones, eternally braying like mules at the top of their voice and disrupting everybody’s else’s public space. This was a certain gesture of social ecology that [the 9/11 pilots] were engaged in that day. Okay, there are fewer of these folks around now frankly, and, well, I’ll leave the dot dot dot after that one.”
Posted at: 1/28/2005 03:47:00 AM