Video Find of the Day
Today the Port Authority made a dumb decision regarding the disposition of some housing (the Lora Lakes Apartments in Burien) near Seattle. The decision was based on, as far as anyone sane has been able to determine, ego, stupidity, and arrogance. It made me think of this video.
This is from the Carnival in the city of Oruro in Bolivia. It is a traditional march in which the marchers portray lawyers. Originally, only men marched. Their strutting, slow, marching step was meant to show both the arrogance of the lawyers themselves and also the painfully ponderous slow legal process they preside over.
Nowadays women march too, and the image they portray may be heavily influenced by the fact that women lawyers are now relatively younger than men lawyers, and people are unused to them, and evidently a little frightened by them. Hence high heels, grinding into the pavement every few steps. Yikes. I don't want to be sued by one of these. Please don't hurt me!
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