I no longer have to travel to the ends of the earth in order to report on the news. Sadly, the news now reports to me. I don’t even have to get on an airplane. News is no longer happening in far away places any more. News is now happening right down the street. Fear porn has arrived in Berkeley, California.
Back in the 1960s, Berkeley used to be home of the Free Speech Movement. People demanding free speech? That was big news. And then it wasn’t. Once again, people started believing everything they read in the newspapers. I had to travel to Iraq or North Korea or Honduras or Uganda to get a good story. But now the Big Stories are right back here in Berkeley.
Back in the day, we all used to make up really funny “Your mom is so Berkeley” jokes. “Your mom is so Berkeley that when she got arrested for protesting the war on Vietnam, she had to hock her macrame in order to make bail.” That sort of thing. Boy, things have really changed.
Here are some of our latest “Your mom is so Berkeley” jokes — except that they aren’t funny any more.
“Your mom is so Berkeley that she now works for both FaceBook and Google, lives in a tiny little house below San Pablo Avenue that cost one million dollars two years ago and is so afraid of a virus with a 0.07% death rate that, even after 500 days in forced lock-down, she still wears her face mask to bed every night.
“Your mom is so Berkeley that she only works from home, never leaves her house, has her groceries delivered by Amazon, thinks that Dr. Fasci is a saint and not just a tool of Big Pharma, believes that if getting one Shot will keep her safe, then getting three or five Shots will keep her even safer, and strongly believes that Joe Biden never has a Senior Moment where he misplaces his car keys and the nuclear football.
“Your mom is so Berkeley that she believes everything she is told on the evening news.”
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