Ted Rall for August 01, 2012
Transcript:
Because when Americans die, dignity goes out the window... Massacre in Colorado: bring on the schmaltz. Premature Prescriptions! (Woman: He was crazy! We need a war on mental illness!) (Man 1: But no insanity defense allowed!) Kitschy eulogies! (Man 2: Just by buying a ticket that night, he was a hero.) Commercialized grief! (Man 3: Show the terror shootists they can't win: Make "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" The highest-grossing movie ever!) Mawkish memorials! (Man 4: It's almost worth dying if you get buried in a batmobile shaped coffin!)
MiepR over 11 years ago
But think of what good news this is for Netflix.
Dtroutma over 11 years ago
Sadly, Ted’s got it covered.
Bilword over 11 years ago
heh,heh, and that’s just how it is 2012
crlinder over 11 years ago
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
pam Miner over 11 years ago
I totally agree. Some of the craziest things are repeated repeatedly.
jane knox over 11 years ago
no mention of the 12 people killed two days later in Texas when a pickup truck with 25+ people in it crashed into a tree. of course, those 12 were “undocumented immigrants” so we don’t really care. no one in the media is going to suggest effective border control or banning pickup trucks … we need Ted Rall in Congress just so he can stand up on a regular basis and yell, “BULL____!”
Anarcissie over 11 years ago
The three S’s — sanctimony, sententiousness, sentimentality. What would we do without them?
But it’s a little bit late for a ‘war on mental illness.’
Chillbilly over 11 years ago
Rall nails another one. With big sixteen-penny nails and a giant framing hammer.
crlinder over 11 years ago
:-) Well, maybe the gymnasts. I know I’d have to be crazy to try some of the things they do.
BTW, although that quotation is often attributed to Einstein there is no evidence that he said it. Kind of like all of the quotations that have been attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
Alan Hampson Premium Member over 11 years ago
Well, he missed one: Start the lawsuits!