Boxing Day Comments

It's boxing day (the Brit name for the day after Christmas) and Pamela, Lisa's grandmother is visiting our little pandemic ark. Pamela's a Cowboys fan so we're watching them slaughter Washington - between commercials - but now a Tesla commercial is running. "Those electric cars, " Pamala says dubiously, "seem problematic."

"You've heard of global warming, haven't you, Pamala? " Leeza says. Leeza addresses everyone (even her grandmother) as if they were her age (12) . It's both seductive and lazy. "This whole system, " she raises her arms to include the apartment, the city and America, "will collapse - we're DOOOOMED, " she concludes, as if speechifying to an eager crowd.
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