The following is a letter I submitted to my college’s student newspaper in response to this column. He has since written another column which you can find here. If you’re asked to enter an email address, use ghetto bean 3 at cox dot net (no spaces). It’s an old email of mine that I don’t use anymore so I don’t really mind putting it out here.
I must admit that after a solid month and a half of silence, I found myself pondering the absence of the University of Rhode Island’s Grand Old Party from the headlines of the Cigar. I felt a void; I missed their antics in much the same way one misses waking to the soothing melody of jackhammers outside one’s window each morning. When the construction is finished and you wake one morning to discover the cacophony has left you, you almost miss it. Almost.
As I walked across the campus this afternoon, almost as if to answer my ponderings, I noticed something written in chalk in front of the student union. The term “Islamo-Fascism” caught my eye, and beneath that, the URI GOP. I smiled. “Billy Boy” is back.
“Billy Boy” is, of course, my pet name for URI GOP lap dog Ryan Bilodeau. You may remember Mr. Bilodeau from such farces as the “White Heterosexual American Male” scholarship, or perhaps his fundraiser to collect money to “buy guns for underprivileged women in an attempt to end domestic violence.” Classy.
As I mentioned earlier, Bilodeau’s newest act appears to revolve around “Islamo-Fascism.” Islamo-Facism, in laymen’s terms, is used to suggest an association between Islam and Nazis. One need only read Bilodeau’s Thursday’s column in the Cigar to realize that he makes little, if any, distinction between Islam and Islamo-Fascism. His copious use of “skeptic quotes” and (pointed parenthetical asides) while describing Islam, not Islamo-Fascism, to preface his harangue only reinforces this notion.
What a Mess 