{"id":214,"date":"2005-12-02T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/12\/02\/has-the-whole-world-lost-its-head\/"},"modified":"2005-12-02T10:27:51","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T14:27:51","slug":"has-the-whole-world-lost-its-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/12\/02\/has-the-whole-world-lost-its-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Has The Whole World Lost Its Head?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I got off the train at Porter Square this morning and “Has the Whole World Lost Its Head?” by the Go-Go’s started playing on my iPod. It seemed rather fitting as I approached the following:<\/P>
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I looked up to see the ubiquitious A&F billboard displaying a topless man exposing a lovely nipple that, at that scale, would be about the size of my entire torso.<\/P>
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Below the billboard (at street level) is a “Please Do Not Feed the Pigeons” sign. A (presumably liberal) person wrote under the sign “THIS IS HATE.” Ah – life in the People’s Republic of Cambridge.<\/P>
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Further down the street I walked by a Christmas Tree stand in front of a church. Profits of the sales are going to a pre-school scholarship fund…SCHOLARSHIPS..FOR PRE-SCHOOL!<\/P>
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A bit further down the street I walk by Judy Jetson hair salon. This is one of those trendy\/hip\/artsy places from what I can gather by the design, the employees and the customers. But in their windows they have an illuminated nativity scene. You know those big, hollow plastic reindeer you’ve seen for years on front lawns around the holidays that are lit from the inside (and prominently kicked about in the movie, Christmas Vacation)? Well, this nativity scene is comprised of such plastic pieces – but in the shapes of those religious figures (I don’t know their names…Noah, Abe, God?). I can’t tell if they’re poking fun at the tackiness of it all…or whether they serious about the whole thing. I’m perplexed.<\/P>
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Then, to top it all off, I get into work only to find this attachment in an email from Karyn (Vexed in the City):<\/P>
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It saddened me. She emailed back saying that it’s a rubber egg. I think she’s lying.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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