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Criminalizing Dumbassery

Criminalizing Dumbassery published on

Last month, wannabe model Rebecca Leigh Crimmins got on the piss and decided to do something a judge later referred to as “disgusting and abhorrent.”

So what did the blonde inebriate do? Did she take a dump on a nun? Did she feed Amy Winehouse’s carcass to the Queen’s corgis? No, she wetted a tampon in cordial, then – I can barely bring myself to describe it – repeatedly dabbed a McDonald’s worker on the hand while claiming she had found it in her fries!

This unprecedented atrocity resulted in a charge of common assault and sixty days of community service, presumably checking boxes of fries for stray tampons. There was a time – a saner time – when a mere apology would do, but not now. Now you can actually go to jail for such actions. How anyone can see such a harmless prank as an assault is beyond my simple intellect. No harm was done, the tampon wasn’t wet from blood so the grossout factor is greatly minimized and the potential for infection is non-existent, yet this could have landed the poor cow in jail. One has to wonder if the obviously smart people who make the laws truly believe such actions constitute assault, or if they are simply trying – successfully – to create a society where everyone is walking around on eggshells, scared shitless to do any of the thousands of things that could land you in jail these days.

In my view such draconian zeal when it comes to these harmless “crimes” is for the most part an attempt to quash dissent before it even arises. After all, if a stupid joke can land you in jail, should you even think of joining a protest when the government has told you not to? Shit, no – that could get you a lot worse than some community service, and that’s if you survive the arrest.

 

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American Firm’s Not So Hidden Contempt for the Poor

American Firm’s Not So Hidden Contempt for the Poor published on

Think the lawyers who foreclose on people’s homes are just a bunch of otherwise decent folks doing an unpleasant job? Think again.

According to a former employee, last year the soulless slimebags at New York law firm Steven J Baum decided that for Halloween they would get their jollies by dressing up as their victims. Amongst the delights to be had were mockups of foreclosed homes, improvised shelters, a coffin bearing the name of a lawyer who dared to take exception to their apparently psychopathic way of doing business, and various assholes wearing outfits which they no doubt obtained by beating the crap out of that guy who lives in the dumpster behind their offices.

My fave is the cow in the photo – don’t you just love the way she further mocks the people whose lives she has ruined by implying that they can’t spell even the simplest of words? I am also amused by the irony of her doing so, given that she herself has apparently failed to learn even the simplest of moral principles…

 

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Hey, at least it’s not Greece!

Hey, at least it’s not Greece! published on

The United States has surprised absolutely nobody by coming in 27th place in a study of how decently 31 OECD countries treat the common man.

The world’s richest, most powerful empire is trounced by everyone except disaster zones such as Greece and third world taco stands such as Chile and Mexico.

The City on the Hill does especially badly in poverty prevention, health, and education, and while Wall St bankers and other white collar criminals stuff their faces with caviar and camembert, fully a fifth of its children are living in poverty.

On the apparently positive side, Amerika ranks slightly better in terms of “ social cohesion and non-discrimination,” but I suspect all that means is you are less likely to get called a nigger, but more likely to be treated like one on the basis of class rather than race.

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Forget the Children, Save the Bankers!

Forget the Children, Save the Bankers! published on

Bumped into this song in a Democracy Now broadcast and found it both amusing and true. Ry Cooder’s “No Banker Left Behind” is (presumably) a clever and sarcastic play on “No Child Left Behind” and tells it like it is.

Cooder is best known, to your host at least, as the guy who wrote those great soundtracks for Wim Wender’s “Paris, Texas”, and Walter Hill’s “Last Man Standing”, but turns out he has a political string to his guitar as well.

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