{"id":2383,"date":"2004-05-17T20:14:42","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T00:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/05\/17\/french-fries\/"},"modified":"2004-05-17T20:14:42","modified_gmt":"2004-05-18T00:14:42","slug":"french-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/05\/17\/french-fries\/","title":{"rendered":"French Fries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3375'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/kerrycannes.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\">The<br \/>\n          big news from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebostonchannel.com\/entertainment\/3314110\/detail.html\">Cannes<\/a> is<br \/>\n        that Michael Moore&#8217;s new anti-Bush flick received the longest standing<br \/>\n        ovation in the history of the festival.<br \/>\n        It is increasingly obvious that if voters around the world could take<br \/>\n        part in American elections (considering the extent to which their lives<br \/>\n        and destinies are dependent on what the US President decides to do, maybe<br \/>\n        that isn&#8217;t such a ridiculous argument) it would be a walk-over, and Dubya<br \/>\n        and his posse would be back on the ranch faster than Cheney could get<br \/>\n        himself to an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n<p>However, knowing American&#8217;s xenophobia and ornery contrariness, it is<br \/>\n      a safe bet that if they know the rest of the world wants them to act in<br \/>\n    a certain way, they will promptly do the exact opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we are sure the White House is celebrating a banner day today.<br \/>\n      Not only is a picture of a half-naked Kerry daughter, also at Cannes, circulating<br \/>\n      on the Internet, but his home state went and stepped on a nest of wasps<br \/>\n      in<br \/>\n      the form<br \/>\n      of legalized gay marriages. What a twisted system we have when the Presidential<br \/>\n    candidates count their victories by how many interest groups the other candidate<br \/>\n      pisses off&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>links to both stories on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\">Drudge<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news from Cannes is that Michael Moore&#8217;s new anti-Bush flick received the longest standing ovation in the history of the festival. It is increasingly obvious that if voters around the world could take part in American elections (considering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/05\/17\/french-fries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}