Professor: "Well, the question of whether torture's justifiable is shortly to be a rhetorical question, isn't it"? [On reviewing a marketing piece about torture]
Me: "Really?"
Professor: "Well, as of Wednesday, it will be anyhow. Right?"
Me: "Oh"? [Very flummoxed here. Whatever could this person mean?]
Professor: "Well, you know Obama's going to stop torture, on Wednesday, right?" [Smile and all seriousness, hope, and change]
Me: "Well, yes, there is that." [OMG. You have more years of formal schooling than I have adult teeth--ok, slight, but only very slight, hyperbole--and you are simple enough to believe that action, and indeed the human heart, can be changed by POLICY? Haven't you read your GULAG?!]
My little inside voice is scaling upward in disbelief, and I scram before it squeaks out and I start a fight with one of the most bludgeoning propagandists on the faculty.
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