Cannibals There and Here

You know how it is on the internets--you never know where you'll end up. Checking the news on Joshua Micah Marshall's new TPM Cafe I spotted an interesting headline on an ad sidebar, which took me to the altWeeklies site. I never found the article I was looking for, but I did find Vince Darcangelo's article in the Boulder Weekly, cleverly titled "To Serve Man." Seems those wacky folks at Hufu, LLC have come up with a soy product sure to appeal to "the Goth crowd, high-school students, people who are into zombie movies": Hufu, "The Healthy Human Flesh Alternative." From the looks of the website, the product, "designed to resemble, as humanly possible, the taste and texture of human flesh," also is designed to appeal to the privileged side of the Post-Colonial crowd; the pictures of quaint indigenes from Fiji and New Guinea, plus T-shirts printed with Easter Island statuary, remind me of the scene in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 that uses old film footage to show some of Bush's spearchucking Iraq Coalition. Racist, but racist for a good cause, I guess.

The other cannibals I saw today were local, not racist, and not that hungry, either--at least for food--but a lot more bloodthirsty. Some members of the San Diego City Council, in unholy collusion with the retirees of the municipal employee's unions who sit on the City's pension board, and the Mayor are getting set to cannibalize city property to pay for their illegal, unfunded pension benefits. A slew of real estate assets, including the land under the Fairbanks Ranch Country Club--which I didn't even know we owned--were going to be up for grabs to the highest bidder (never mind the legacy of the people) until the redoubtable Mike Aquirre stepped in and tabled the deal. These scandalous, corrupt creeps should be run out of town, and here's how: elect some honest people to get us out of this mess the criminals got us in.