Ways I know I'm a bad person

[xiphias]

1. I read this rather disturbing article, about a physicist with Aspergers who is currently in prison (correctly) for his role in a $5 million vandalism spree. The thing is -- he's being treated as a terrorist, when what he is is a big-time vandal.

The plan that he and some friends had had were to put bumper stickers on SUVs that said "SUV = TERRORISM". But there was a typo at the printer, and so they instead went around spray-painting, like, a hundred SUVs. Then things got WAY out of hand, when one of his friends pulled out a Molotov cocktail, and blew up fourteen SUVs at a dealership. What with blowing up 14 SUVs, the damage to the rest of the dealership, and the hundred spray-painted cars, the damages came out to around $5 million. And he was sent to prison for his part in this. Which is fair. But, because someone spray-painted "ELF" on some of the cars, for "Earth Liberation Front", which the FBI lists as a terrorist organization, despite the fact that it probably doesn't even exist, he's been treated as a terrorist, and other bad stuff happened.

Okay. But that's not what makes ME a bad person. See, the bumper stickers came back saying "SUV = TERRIORISM".

And I thought, "Man! Now THAT would be a great bumper sticker: 'FRANCE SUPPORTS TERRIORISM.'"

Because, y'know, France does.

("Terrior" is the term for the specific quality of soil, microclimate, aspect of land, and so forth in a specific region, village, or vineyard which gives the wine from that place its particular character.)

2. We put Boopsie in the shower this morning. Well, actually, she hopped in while I was showering. So we soggified her.

She seemed vaguely puzzled, but nowhere near as annoyed as she ought to have been, and she seemed okay with us wrapping her in a towel and carrying her around while drying her off.

Comments

[redbird]

Nitpicking, because we're that kind of people: what the French support is terroir, not terrior (the latter sounds like some odd yappy little dog).

[cheshyre]

More accurately, Boopsie hopped into the back of the shower, hopped out, hopped back in, hopped out, walked along the edge of the tub to drink from the faucet, getting her head soaked, and only after that had been going on for a while did we put her into the tub to wet the rest of her....

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

ELF = Erisian Liberation Front, as per the Robert Anton Wilson novels (Illuminatus Trilogy, Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, etc.) and may or may not have been used by some anti-nuke/anti-war folks back in the 60s, 70s & 80s (depending on who you talk to and what you read and how much of it is true and how much is a Discordian Conspiracy to confuse everyone).

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

I first heard ELF (Earth Liberation Front) mentioned in a Larry Niven story, from the 70's.

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

Re #1: You are not a bad person, just a creatively disturbed one.

Re #2: Yea for a clean, not mad, Boopsie! I see you're smarter than I am. The one time I had to wash a cat, all went well... until I turned on the hair dryer. Ow.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

("Terrior" is the term for the specific quality of soil, microclimate, aspect of land, and so forth in a specific region, village, or vineyard which gives the wine from that place its particular character.)

Um, that's 'terroir'...

What amazes me, I'm in the bath and splashing mightily, and Barry is sitting on the bath-mat and getting thoroughly splashed, but he still just sits there: like I am so obviously not to be trusted in the bath by myself, he simply has to sit it out, whatever...

[florafloraflora.livejournal.com]

#1 pisses me off mightily. The judge and the prison administrators are on the wrong side of history, but that's not much of a comfort when you're standing knee-deep in filth, sorting through a dumpster.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

But how do the French feel about terrierism?