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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Did You Hear The One About The Guy Who Set Himself On Fire?

The family "protective" services took his children and ruined his marriage, just like they are designed to do, and like happened millions of times before. But this time the guy wrote a really long, somewhat persuasive manifesto before setting himself on fire in protest.

I think I might have preferred to shoot a few people through the head, personally, and then maybe a quick trip to the back hills of Peru might be in order. But this guy immolated hisse'f and . . .

The
Press
Totally
Failed
To
Report
The
Story

You never heard of Tom Ball, but you know all about Casey Anthony, because the system whereby news of consequence is disseminated in the mainstream press has broken down. Not-guilty hot chick? Headlines. Dead white man? Meh. Spike the story.

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