Sheria at The Examined Life posted some statistics from the Daily Kos depression poll of the century. Just as well, I need crap like this … extrapolated so as to keep it at some remove. Sanity is precious, you know,  and one wants to go on believing the best of ones’ neighbors, in both the immediate and existential sense. I have always thought that being hateful inside must be the most boring of lives. Read the rest of this entry »

Oh, hell, you know and I know the web is woven with lunatics, this is by nature part of its ghastly beauty. I just happened upon the rat’s nest described below, and oh my dear, Will Jesus when He Returns please make a special trip, just for these guys? (I don’t see The Coming as a single event, but—holy crap, I just realized I am talking like one of the characters in my novel.)

You come to do this, in, ahem, maturity, you find you’ve developed the skill to both be yourself and, on another level, observe yourself, from almost an aesthetic point of view.

Or maybe this is me, and on this cool, peaceful evening, the usually separate trajectories relax and blend. What I write to you—my all-important reader—what my characters say to me … I think there’s a third meta-level hiding in here somewhere … Read the rest of this entry »

This is from Yahoo News, so really, forget about a link.

“Il Manifesto said the shooting was ‘as American as apple pie.’ ”

Heartwarming.

The end of the report (probably Reuters—yes, damn, it is) you could write in your sleep:

“More than 30,000 people die from gunshot wounds every year in the United States.”

This is what passes for public discussion of gun control. Squeezing in a few remarks—which happen to be true, of course—at the end of a horribly relevant tragedy.

See them lefty-liberal Reuters editors at work?

Well, babe, that’s about all we can do. A few statements of appalling fact …

“… there are more guns in private hands than in any other country.”

Prolly Commies at that—what the hell kinda name is Rooters, Royters anyway. Sounds like furriners to me.

And, always, this wistful, terrible truth:

“A powerful gun lobby and grass-roots support for gun ownership rights have largely thwarted attempts to tighten controls.”

And you thought this was a democracy. The more fool you.