While many are familiar with the term ‘losing your shit’ most will apply it to an individual or perhaps a small group of individuals. I’m thinking we need to apply it to a whole damn country–My country in fact. Now I am insanely proud to be an American, which some readers have questioned over the years based on my criticism of our oft nutso culture and strange political system. I realize that to many, any criticism of the country looks like betrayal, nay terrorism, but that is just how stupid people think. So, this is for the rest of us out there who actually are down with a logical conversation about the way things are.
1&2. Guns, Gods, and Killin Islam
Thank you Mass Media and the Military Industrial Complex. You have officially scared the poo out of people to the point where false bravado is the only way we roll. Yesterday I was in Walmart trying to grab a last minute gift for a kids gift exchange and as we walked in there was a dude walking behind us strapped with a .44 Magnum revolver. I don’t have a problem with owning guns. I want guns. I don’t however see the need to carry them into your local Walmart. Now that isn’t all that unusual, but what was strange is that there were 7 gun toters (6 male) in there at the same time ranging from what had to be barely out of teens to old ass man. I saw four congregate near the front, shaking hands and introducing themselves–as if they were suddenly down because they all open carry. It was much like it is with black people in places where there are no black people. We suddenly know each other real well. I would’ve even let that go if not for this article I read today. Yes, America, this is what losing your damn mind looks like. I love the part where schools have to remove the shahada from world religion instruction. “A different, non-religious sample of Arabic calligraphy will be used in the future,” Really? Teaching world religion by excluding non-christian texts? Come on, man.
3. Post-OJ Next Level Rich
Unless you have been under a rock for, well, ever you know that a long time ago OJ Simpson got away with (possibly) murdering his wife due to the fact that he is rich and famous. Rich people getting away with murder isn’t new. It’s a trope in fact. What was new was that a black man got away with murder. That created a situation where there was, for a moment, equivalency between black and white. So, of course, we had to dream up some next level rich that is so blatantly about privilege that there is no rational way to justify it. Or, in legal terms, Affluenza.
I consider myself a deeply creative dude and I could not have made this up. Now the affor(linked) Ethan Couch has gone from too rich to be held responsible to on the lam with his mom. Here’s why I’m adding this as number 3: I don’t think that she’ll be charged or even he will be charged when caught. Why? Affluenza! The defense itself creates the means by which he can excuse this behavior. Only in Texas, y’all….