4 March 2002 - burning people

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2002 : 4 March 2002

Contrasting Attitudes to Hot Issues, or, Burn Baby Burn

United States: The customer is not always right. Burning bodies is environmentally unsound—we prefer to get back to nature.

India: Pakistan turns out to be unnecessary; we can have a war all by ourselves. We will attack with fire and the... fire!

clue:

The references are to the crematorium scandal in the U.S. and the religious violence in India.