Whinge: A verb – to complain fretfully; to whine. Was it just me or did the “Mouth of the South”, aka Timothy J. Parker, appear, again, to be doing but just that and little else (Letters, 1/17/06)?
Twenty minutes of trying to follow the tortuous verbosity of Parker left me in near physical and mental fatigue.
My best guess at “meaning,” strung out over 20 or so disjointed paragraphs, was that ”I had a black roommate in college by the name of Eddie;” “White, black and brown people are not uniformly homogeneous in color;” Neanderthals existed for 200k years but did not improve their tools (?); and a couple of sophomoric lessons in basic Darwinism and anthropology.
Finally, Republicans used to be smart when they freed the slaves but have now inherited a regressive gene, which has caused all ancestors of Western Africans to become Democrats.
Good to be enlightened. Perhaps if I read several more books (I’ve actually read Margaret Meade and Stephen Jay Gould), I will become another elitist liberal, convinced the majority of prominently browed Americans elected the “intellectually detached” versus, for example, the Chappaquiddick murderer so prominently a figure on the left, despite the 30 years since his high crime(s).
Just call me Les NMI Dyer, aka Neanderthal.
Les Dyer
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