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. ...
Julie says:
You could put this in there somewhere?
http://xkcd.com/714/
JohnR says:
Perhaps if it had been McCubbins and Schwannstucker it would have drawn more comment. Next time, pick a more uplifting cite before you cast the first stone at our glass house! That is all.
Matthew says:
Every post needs more dick jokes, on every blog and forum, ever.
Shane says:
Julie, Excellent.
Ed, I considered making a typical academic comment about your post failing to consider Douglas Arnold's theories about the relationship between regulatory agencies and Congress or any mention of iron triangles, or the important role of the judiciary in enabling the public to serve as watch dogs…but I didn't want to come off too nerdy. :-)
Hobbes says:
Hey, now, I'm still reading the paper. I occasionally have to put it down and look like I'm doing what I'm being paid to do, you know.
barry says:
i wouldn't take lack of comments as lack of interest. I found it very interesting, but there wasn't a great deal left to say…
Matthew says:
QUIET ALL OF YOU!
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN (BY NOT SPEAKING).
MORE DICK JOKES!
robot eating says:
I was to understand that there would be pie.
Hazy Davy says:
Or more snark.
Or pics of rats.
Wisakedjak says:
snarky dick jokes warm the cockles of my heart
Hobbes says:
I'll just leave this here:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1810#comic