If a Thing Is Worth Doing . . .
If you can believe whomever whoever those people the Southern Illinoisan plagiarized for today’s article on the latest round of mass murders, then there have been eight rampages claiming 57 dead since March 10th.
Coined by Thomas Paine in his first Crisis pamphlet; often quoted by Mark Twain; and immortalized by Jacqueline Steiner & Bess Hawes in Charles’s epic adventure around the Boston underground, these ARE, in fact, the times that try men’s souls.
Political unrest.
Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and probably Canada by the time Hillary gets through annoying everyone.
The economic disaster that’s hit all of us (with the exception of those eBay people who keep bidding against me for that Nikon D70 camera body.)
It’s all enough to set Margaret Anderson or Carol Brady off on a killing spree.
Unfortunately, I can’t offer solutions for our national crisis, but I do have a suggestion that may ease your collective troubled minds and efficientize the process a bit. I’m carrying a small notebook along with me and entering names and addresses of all those rude store clerks, telemarketers, cell-phoning drivers, politicians, and authors of garage door opener installation instructions. If I ever snap, go off the deep end and M-16 my way through the huddled masses, I want a purpose. Randomizing something this big is a total waste, and I want to take the people with me that deserve to go.
Get your own notebook – and if I rub you the wrong way, jot my name and address down in yours – it’s “Smith, general delivery, Chicago.”
April 28, 2009 at 4:37 pm
well your ending made me think of the 1993 Michael Douglas movie ” Falling Down”!!!!! Think about it…thiiiiiink about it
and I’m disappointed you only need 1 notebook!
WAIT…does that make me go into YOUR note book
JJ