Take comfort in the fact that every time someone types out the phrases "should of (sic) complied" or "play stupid games win stupid prizes" a spirit appears like in A Christmas Carol and shows them the future where they die alone without ever having known the love of another living being.
We hear you, we see you, and we know - as you do - that you're a miserable sorta-excuse for a human being who will never know a moment's happiness let alone be tolerable to any other person. Your existence is a cancer on the world and everyone forced to encounter you, even for a moment, is worse off for it. And unlike this woman shot down in cold blood, the moment you die will pass entirely unnoticed and unremaked upon. It will be like you never existed, and you know every word I said here is true. That's why you act the way you do and talk the way you do - because at night, when you're alone, you know all of this. The only thing that never occurs to you is that everyone around you knows it about you, too. You think your act fools anyone, and that's the scariest thing to you: the possibility that people see you for the coward you are.
They do. We do. Sleep tight. ...
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you. ...
Matthew says:
This post is hardly of a broad, sweeping, or intentionally provocative nature at all! Just more news. Good luck getting 13 comments on today's post, Ed!
JDryden says:
The Manhattan Project has been so thoroughly documented in a library shelve's worth of history books that, yeah, I think it's safe to say that the genie's out of the bottle on this one. A nuke is actually fairly easy to put together–it's the ingredients (well, *ingredient*) that're really, really, really, really–and thank God there are so many "really"s–hard to come by. But even there, every third-year physics major knows how to make them. It's simply not that tricky. Just time-consuming and hellaciously expensive and you really can't do it in secret in the age of satellite imagery. Which is plenty good for us. But for Bush to frame this as a matter of ignorance rather than inopportunity is just…well, I suppose I'd call it hubristic, in the sense that he thinks we can control what other people can learn/know. Which is like thinking that we can control the weather. But I'm sure that he thinks we can do that, too, which is why he's still not sure why Katrina happened.
Ed says:
This really is a terrible form of negative reinforcement – people only comment when I say things that are poorly thought out and belligerent.
More of that to come, I guess. Huzzah!