I had wondered how many people noticed that fondness for Che Gueverra among those lovers of peace and freedom. Were they, as your reference says, born without capacity for irony? Are they too lazy to read anything longer than a bumper sticker or a sweatshirt? Or are they just really dumb?

It's kind of like Klan members wearing shirts with the image of Malcome X.

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What I do know is that if I were the guy's father, I'd be thinking about all the things I could have done with the money I saved to put him through school. He's probably a trust fund kid or a perpetual student who's living off of stipends and who has thousands of dollars of unpaid student loans. I mean, really, everything about him says, "I'm a pathetic loser who will never make a positive contribution to society." Of course, he'll probably end up running for Congress, and given that he's from California, he would stand a better than even chance of getting elected.

He reminds me of a joke that Myron Cohen used to tell (the one he claimed was the only dirty joke he knew): A man is sitting in a bar when a character who looks like Chinpubes walks in. He sits and watches the guy as he drinks his beer. Finally, the hippie turns to him and says, "What?" The guy says, "Excuse me, but about twenty-five years ago I did a stretch in prison for having sex with a buffalo. Are you my son?"

People who idolize Che Guevara fall in love with the picture and don't know anything about him.

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Along the same lines, you might find these entertaining:

http://www.thoseshirts.com/anticheshirts.html

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