April 23, 2005
Overheard at Starbucks
"If there's a 'criminal underclass' does it follow there would need to be a non-criminal overclass?"
-"You mean like law and order royalty? Public-safety royalty?"
"Untouchables."
"Was J. Edgar Hoover royalty?"
-"Hoover was gay."
"Hoover was the exception that proved the rule. The courts' eunuch."
-"Eunuch? How many years did he control the FBI?"
-"Do you think there's Hoover-inspired law and order officials in America's Bible-belt today?"
"Like Roy Cohn?"
-"I wonder if people dress-up as J. Edgar in gay-pride parades?"
He's got federal buildings named after him."