Apr 15
johnjjeeves commented on
Monday Morning News: Dead Whales, Proud Aussies, Coffins of Ladies.
W gets to enjoy being a grandfather. He'll bounce the baby on his knee, take him or her to the zoo, give extravagant gifts at Christmas. Most likely his grandchild will be by his side when W, a very old and very infirm man, slips quietly away from life in a few more decades. Meanwhile, the catastrophe he helped orchestrate has shattered hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of lives.
Whoever said it - if you're seeking justice, you're better off appealing to heaven. There is no justice in this world.
Apr 11
johnjjeeves commented on
Hospital In Missouri Facing the Mother of All Lawsuits.
@10 - actually, I was referring to the kind of 'allies' that sometimes make me prefer my enemies. The kinds of people who think that marriage equality is only for wealthy white cis male gays, not for anyone else. Those callow tumblr kids that "read" (or you know, had paraphrased to them) two articles on the subject and declared, if I remember correctly, that Rick Ross rapping about roofie-ing a woman in a song was more important than DOMA being in front of the Supreme Court. The self-righteous purity-testing little shits who couldn't expand their narcissistic worldview to the point where they might actually need to care about someone other than themselves in a legal setting. The people who live their lives in full-on Nirvana Fallacy Land, where incremental steps forward are useless wastes of time if they don't address every race, class, and trans* issue simultaneously - which, funnily enough, marriage equality actually does address all of those issues, but nevermind.