Hilarious!

Look, I’m all in favor of drunk drivers drowning while handcuffed or what have you, but this story shocks me:

A 14-year-old boy who was throwing eggs at cars along with two other teenagers was shot and killed by someone who had been in a sport utility vehicle that was hit, police said.

Danny Crawford was killed by a gunshot wound to his upper body, Franklin County Coroner Brad Lewis said. He died in an alley on the city’s west side early Saturday, authorities said.

The teens were throwing eggs at cars when an SUV that was struck chased them, Detective Tim Huston said. The vehicle stopped and several gunshots were fired, he said.

Police were looking for the shooter, who fled in the SUV, Sgt. Dana Norman said. The SUV believed to be involved was found a short time later near where Crawford died.

The other teens were not hurt, police said.

Well, y’know, the rule of thumb is — or should be — “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.” Dumbass, you had a choice when your car got egged: go to jail, or go to the car wash. Me? (I’d've chosen the car wash, douchebag!)

From WashingtonPost.com:

A handcuffed Woodbridge teenager drowned early yesterday after he fled from a Virginia State Police cruiser during a traffic stop and plunged more than 60 feet off a bridge into the Occoquan River, state police said.

And all I can think is, “Huzzah! One less retarded horrible driver to cut in front of me and piss me off!”

Seriously. Yesterday, I was heading back to the Indy on Paper Mill Road. All’s fine. Dude in a truck starts following me as we cross the bridge and head into Hunter’s Run. As soon as the road widens, he skids past me, and jumps in front of me. Then he doesn’t know what lane he needed to be in to turn onto York Road once Ashland dumped, and nearly hit someone. I didn’t care, because I let him get far ahead of me. Anyway, I hope that guy drowns while handcuffed too.

HT: The Bitch Girls … (who deleted my comment and my blog’s trackback! What bitches!)

UPDATE:

Lee’s a tricky bastard, but I passed the test! A radio host named Jerry Klein hoaxed his audience, then got righteously angry on them, as he should’ve: ““I can’t believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said,” he told his audience on the AM station 630 WMAL (http://www.wmal.com/), which covers Washington, Northern Virginia and Maryland

“For me to suggest to tattoo marks on people’s bodies, have them wear armbands, put a crescent moon on their driver’s license on their passport or birth certificate is disgusting. It’s beyond disgusting.

“Because basically what you just did was show me how the German people allowed what happened to the Jews to happen … We need to separate them, we need to tattoo their arms, we need to make them wear the yellow Star of David, we need to put them in concentration camps, we basically just need to kill them all because they are dangerous.””

THE ORIGINAL POST:

One of my favorite blogs to read is that of a conservative fellow named Lee — of the Goldwaterish variety — living in California, Right Thinking From The Left Coast. Sometimes I read Lee’s blog and I laugh. Sometime I read Lee’s blog and I get angry. Today I read Lee’s blog and was just very very confused. I’m hoping this was a prank with someone else figuring his log-in and posting as him, or maybe he’s drunk or high, I don’t know, but my reaction when I read this post was somewhere along the lines of “What happened to the Lee I usually read?”

(Because I’m pretty sure “Lee as Usual” would’ve shot down this idea, not mentioned it for debate himself).

So I was having a conversation last night, and the idea was floated about tattooing a crescent on Muslims in America as a tool to combat terrorism. Or, for those Muslims who visit the country, we make them wear a crescent armband. Given that the 9/11 hijackers all entered the country legally, I think this could be reasonable. What do you think?

Here’s what I think, Lee:

Requiring members of a religion to wear a visual indicator of their religion is just so wrong. I know that there are groups which do publically identify themselves — some Jews wear those caps, Christians will wear cross necklaces, many Muslims will wear traditional garb, etcetra. But those are choices, yes, perhaps in some cases required by their particular brand of their religion, but not forced on them by the government — unless, of course, its their native government, as I understand is the case in some Middle Eastern nations.

But not in the U.S.!

(Besides, where would you tattoo them? On their forehead? Who wants a forehead tattoo?)

This means, of course, that there are some things I have posted over six years of daily blogging that I wish I hadn’t. There are things I also haven’t said that I should have. I have blogged angry or exhausted or depressed or giddy. I have blogged after fighting with my boyfriend; I have blogged with a beagle baying in the background; I have blogged in airports and trains and many, many Starbucks. I’ve blogged on Xanax and on protease inhibitors - but I swear I haven’t blogged drunk. But I’m sure, for some readers, it seems like I do on a regular basis.

Unlike Andrew Sullivan, I have blogged drunk — and I have a t-shirt to prove it!

Saturday’s Answer: Trees. I know. That one was easy, wasn’t it?

This one won’t be:

I went to the wood and got it
I sat me down and looked at it;
The more I looked at it, the less I liked it.
And I brought it home because I couldn’t help it.

Two possible answers: what is “it”? Knock yourselves out, and no cheating!

The punch-line here isn’t that George W. Bush’s Presidential Library is already under works, or that at $500 million it’ll be the most expensive presidential library to-date (to steal a joke someone else said, “Are coloring books really that expensive?”)

No, the punch-line here is that the George W. Bush Presidential Library will also serve as a think-tank.

What a great video/parable.

HT: Andrew Sullivan.