Morford: Please Write More About Rape

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, May 14, 2004 | Mark Morford, He's not being sarcastic

[presidio9]

I get this a lot: Mark, how can you write about light fluffy inconsequential things like dogs or yoga or car design or sex or music when there's so many vile gut-wrenching soul-curdling life-threatening atrocities and gang rapes and beheadings and Rumsfelds happening in the world right now that deserve immediate attention?

How the hell can you possibly write a whole column extolling, say, the virtues of single-malt scotch or of having sex in the backseat of small luscious European cars, when BushCo is right this moment ravaging the planet and eviscerating the human spirit and the environment is teetering on the edge and women's rights are being gouged and McDonald's is poisoning our youth and Dick Cheney is still upright, barely?

This is what they say. The world is a ticking powder keg of nails and fear. Please write about this, all the time, every time. Give it voice and shape and insight. Every column should be furious and polemic. Fight the good fight! Tackle the tough snarly issues head on, nonstop, never failing to take those corrupt mother--s who are ruining our planet to the mat!

[ThreeYearLurker]

Can't have a Morford post without this.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>Tackle the tough snarly issues head on, nonstop, never failing to take those corrupt mother--s who are ruining our planet to the mat!

Morford likes taking these guys to the mat...

[Numbers Guy]

Interesting. He rants time and again about Bush.

Then discusses the decapitation of a cat.

Not once does he mention the recent decapitation of a human being by his buddies in Iraq.

[theDentist]

"...BushCo is right this moment ravaging the planet and eviscerating the human spirit and the environment is teetering on the edge and women's rights are being gouged and McDonald's is poisoning our youth and Dick Cheney is still upright."

And we've only just begun! :-)

[johniegrad]

Proctitis personified.

[Bob]

Morford likes taking these guys to the mat...

I'd think that Ms. Morford would much prefer getting taken to the mat. That's the way I read his writings(?), anyway.

[presidio9]

Morford Ping

[talleyman]

LOL!

[N. Theknow]

Morford is going to star in the next Star Trek movie as a Tribble breeder.

[ssaftler]

How dare you associate a sweet, good-natured, INDUSTRIOUS animal like a rat (love the light helmet!) with a jerk-off like Morford? He is everything a rat is not.

A weasel, perhaps. A dingo, even better!

[Slings and Arrows]

Ha! I caught Morford in a full-blown, indisputable lie:

Like most paid media observers...

Ain't NO way he's getting paid for his "writing."

[Thanks for the ping!]

[KarlInOhio]

How dare you associate a sweet, good-natured, INDUSTRIOUS animal like a rat (love the light helmet!)

That's no rat. It's Lemmiwinks the Gerbil king from South Park. Search for Lemmiwinks to get the full story. If I were to post it, I would get Zotted for breaking the vulgarity rules.

[MonroeDNA]

http://homepage.mac.com/sthompson/iMovieTheater13.html

Lemmiwinks (Caution! Not for humorless folks!)

[Billthedrill]

Oh, these guys are just too chicken to tell you the story of brave little Lemmiwinks. I'll tell you!

See, there's this teacher who wants to get fired for being gay, so he brings his boyfriend to class and he...uh...he...well, he takes the class's pet gerbil and he...uh...

Better go to the website.

[ssaftler]

Sorry, I'm not a South Park watcher. But, having had domestic rats as pets (yes, they make GOOD pets!) for almost 10 years, I know a rat when I see one and that picture of Lemmiwinks looks an awful lot like a rat!

[cyborg]

syphillitic dementia

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I had rats for pets as a kid. Smart and loving little beasts! I have nothing but fond memories of my rats.

[Monty22]

Oh my GOD that's bad.

[Clemenza]

Morford has been quite prolific of late.