RAT Are Your Ears Burning?

[Mathew Bretz <mabretz@cbomedia.com>]

at a little x-mas shin dig last night at the home of the other matt
sweeney and scott zeller i over heard dan fields and the aforesaid
musing over the "matt the g and matt the b days"  what a bizarre
coinkydink.

matthew

matthew wrote:

> While I share a propensity for sweeping generalities just as
> my friend Bill does,  I also hope I share with him a
> knowledge that generalizations are only valid when dealing
> with large groups of people, not individuals. But sweeping
> generalities are just so much fun, dammit!!
>
> Having said that, I also have spent plenty of time around
> cops, and have several high school classmates who have
> entered in to law enforcement. Keeping in mind I'm only
> speaking anecdotally, I must agree with much of Bill's
> premise, although I would argue that the violence he speaks
> of is a symptom of what drives them, not the actual drive
> itself. In my experience, it's all about desperately seeking
> power, or desperately trying to hold on to the power you
> think you have. Resorting to violence is obviously just the
> simpletons way to achieve the power he thinks he's lacking.
> To put it in annoyingly glib and smug terms....every cop I
> ever met either HAD been popular in high school, or wanted
> to be. (Spare me the flames on that one, I know how lame it
> is....and apologies if someone else has already said as
> much...I only recently re-subscribed to the list.)
>
> Enough about cops. I'm in South Dakota for a while to play
> some theater games at the local university, so I'm
> interested in the conference in Iowa City I've been reading
> about. Can someone email me and give me the skinny?
> (Privately, so the list doesn't clog with a bunch of stuff
> you all know already)
>
> Anyway, it's good to be back and see you're all still here.
>
> Love,
> Matthew Swee
>
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