Nothing for tonight. I had a couple of things I wanted to post, but in the wake of the news from Boston neither politics nor blithe general-interest material seems appropriate.
I was working today, and watching Twitter out of the corner of my eye; one got the sense that a great many people were just crossing their fingers, hoping that the story would break in the hoped-for ideological direction. Some simply couldn’t contain themselves. That repulsive gundyguts Michael Moore, for example, slavering at the prospect of a conservative perp, tweeted “Tax Day. Patriots’ Day.”
I saw a photograph of a poor young man being rushed away in a wheelchair with his legs blown off. I wish I hadn’t; I’m still trying to get over the horrors I saw in the Gosnell grand-jury report. (I’m not going to link to either of these things; you can go find them yourself if you want.)
Meanwhile, the stock market plummeted, and the world waits for North Korea’s next move.
I believe I’ll fix myself a drink.
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It won’t be too long before we will see a backlash to this kind of activity. It has been encouraged by the laxity and purposelessness of our policy toward Islam. When the government fails, the people frequently perform vigilante justice. It won’t take much and there will be mosque bombings, attacks on anyone obviously Middle-Eastern, and possibly attacks on anyone espousing PC-multicultural crap. It could get very ugly very quickly.
It is good I am not in charge of a potential perpetrator. I’m afraid I would be very creative in finding ways to inflict pain. Yes, I would indeed torture someone I felt was guilty. They can only die once, so there needs to be some approximation of an eye-for-an-eye.
I’m not in a good mood, and I had a couple of drinks. Just made it worse.