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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Tuesday, April 16, 2013

About Boston

Patton Oswalt's excellent and quickly viral Facebook post:
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Boston.  Fucking horrible.

I remember when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong.  I don't know what's going to be revealed behind all this mayhem.  One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know.  If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet.  You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARD the destruction to help out.  This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it, but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence.  One of them is, every once in a while, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed to darkness.

But the vast majority stands against the darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil-doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak.  This is beyond religion or creed or nation.  We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil.  We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear, or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

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