October 15, 2009

Happiness is a Warm Gun, I Guess

I had my new students give short presentations on their favorite things at the start of this semester. Most describe the usual pop stars, vacation spots, snack foods and films. Some are surprising. Shocking really. On the last day in one class I had a young man (the second at this school) state that Hitler was his favorite man. He couldn't explain why, he just liked him.

Not to be outdone, a young, petite woman listed violent movie after violent movie as her favorites. Not my cup of tea, but I know others like some blood shed. Then she had some slides of snipers and sniper weapons. She said that she admired snipers because they were patient, calm and accurate. She also rattled off her favorite sniper weapons. Whoa

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