When someone who has been "downing Smirnoff vodka and tonics" for two hours murders someone with whom he had had a verbal disagreement, what would you call that person? Well, someone named Niall, commenting over at Hot Buttered Death calls him an "example of the sorry state of your average American's psyche." He also blames this supposed state on the Bush administration, as if Dubya and co. had the power to magically control drunks from a distance. Funny, I always thought I was a pretty average American, but I've never killed anyone over a disagreement. Once I chased my sister around the house with a broom because she had been bugging me, though. But that was way before either Bush administration held Amerikkka in its iron grip. In fact I do believe the sisterly combat episode occurred during the Carter administration. Can I blame my murderous impulses towards my sister on Ole Jimmeh?
(Via Tex.)
Posted by Andrea Harris at June 23, 2003 02:59 PMRemember, Dubya's cousin John Ellis was supposed to have won the presidential election for Bush, by calling the state of Florida for him for Fox News -- at two in the morning, when the polls had been closed for several hours. By comparison, controlling drunks from a distance seems like a finger exercise.
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at June 23, 2003 at 05:35 PMIs that the same John Ellis as the one on Blogspot?
Posted by: Andrea Harris at June 23, 2003 at 08:28 PMapologies for the 'average' adjective. I should have left it out, thereby encompassing every Amerikkkan. :)
Posted by: Niall at June 24, 2003 at 12:07 AM"When someone who has been 'downing Smirnoff vodka and tonics' for two hours murders someone with whom he had had a verbal disagreement, what would you call that person?"
Uhhhhh...guilty? Of what, I'm not sure. Would that be second degree murder or first degree manslaughter?
Posted by: Darth Cirrocu at June 24, 2003 at 01:03 AMNever take a man who spells "Neal" as "Niall" with two "l"s seriously. It was the name of the idiot hippy on "The Young Ones." Enough said.
Posted by: Omnibus Bill at June 24, 2003 at 11:50 AM