Comments on: Leave Me Alone, I Can Do It Myself http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4664.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Thu, 24 May 2012 23:50:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: John http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4664.html/comment-page-1#comment-23742 John Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:51:34 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/004664.html#comment-23742 "Some of our culture has not always made this world a better place." Sure, we're tacky. I score about 40% on Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck test and I'm proud of it. Yes, I've shot a varmint out of my bedroom window. And yes, there's been crime scene tape on my bathroom door. But we have not given the world anything close to Marxism Leninism, Stalinism, or Nazism. Every time a Russian acquaintance starts going off about Russian Culture and European this or that, I remind them rather forcibly how little their "great" culture has done to curb their barbarism. “Some of our culture has not always made this world a better place.”

Sure, we’re tacky. I score about 40% on Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck test and I’m proud of it. Yes, I’ve shot a varmint out of my bedroom window. And yes, there’s been crime scene tape on my bathroom door.

But we have not given the world anything close to Marxism Leninism, Stalinism, or Nazism. Every time a Russian acquaintance starts going off about Russian Culture and European this or that, I remind them rather forcibly how little their “great” culture has done to curb their barbarism.

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