He was urban not suburban, his voice bristling with the energy of the Harlem streets from which he sprang, cutting through middle-class crap like a fine old bone-handled straight-razor.
Since Reagan first started this raiding of the U.S. treasury, the only real question has been, "How long can the lower and middle classes carry this crap on their backs before they dismiss wedge issues and start voting with their pocketbooks?" Thus far, the answer seems to be, about 30 years, give or take a couple.
Half the class is incensed by crap that looks like nothing at all, and the other half by the polka dots and body parts.
So go grab that flash drive you stole from some random kid in your computer networking class and back that crap up.
Kate Moss (Croydon, England) hastened in the era of the waif because she knew the right register: "Melancholy and internal and slightly damp … the waif was the supercool working-class slag from a crap town".
A one-time punk who was born and bred in England, Mr Doonan raves about Miss Moss as the perfect person to bring this modern London look to Manhattan, describing her (in what was intended as a compliment) as a "working-class slag from a crap town".There is another reason why Miss Moss is perfect for Sir Philip's plans.
From 14 June "We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living crap out of me.
A fortnight later, Sorenson said of Loughner: "We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living crap out of me.
In an e-mail months before the shootout, a fellow student said: "We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living crap out of me.
And for everyone else there is a FAFSA form that basically craps all over the middle class.
And in that way, the Pumpkin Cafe might be one of the last true, class-less bastions of crap-but-comforting Britishness we have left.
