Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Another intern scandal! Well, sort of.
The Washington Post has the story of the e-mail you might already have been forwarded. Kelly Tripplehorne was, until very recently, an intern for Texas senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. In a spell of spectacularly poor judgment, he emailed a particularly spiteful and nasty break-up letter to a fellow intern. NEVER break up over e-mail. You'd be better off doing it on the Jerry Springer Show.
Now, of course, millions have read it and come to the conclusion that he's a sub-literate jerk with possible sociopathic tendencies. If you're one of those millions and want a face to put to the words, the Post has his picture with the article, which does strike me as odd. In case you missed the original text, you can read it at Snopes.com. Notice that his email address is "tripplehorny@hotmail.com." You couldn't make this stuff up.
TrackBackSeems typical of 20 year olds doing some pretty dumb things. I am young and I just got out of an elite university and there are enough assholes who think like this that it is scary. I dated a woman for 2.5 years who could drop more in a single day at Saks than my father, a union electrician, earned in a year and thought nothing about it. That was a strange world for me to be in and eventually it was too foreign of a world for me to voluntarily stay in. I saw too many people like Tripplehorny there; I can handle the poor assholes like myself a whole lot easier.
Fester
Posted by: fester at July 17, 2003 04:44 PM