I've Made a Huge Mistake

Okay, I made a bunch.

First mistake: After clicking over to check out Rox's competition, I wandered around the Weblog Awards site.

Second mistake: My ego got me and I checked out the division in which I'm eligible: Blogs With the Number of Readers it Takes to Fill a Phone Booth.

Third, and biggest, Mistake: I read at least one post from each of the finalists in the division. All but a few focus on winger politics and can be fairly tarred with this brush, which is a post directly from one of the worst of the bunch:

This smacks of an urban legend, but it came from my parents’ friends who live in New Orleans. It is rather funny.

Lori works with a lady whose relatives live in Lakeview. When they evacuated, they put all of their valuables, jewelry and things of that nature, up on the second floor of their home. When the water went down enough to walk through, a guy looted the home and stuffed most of their valuables into a pillow case and went out the back. The water was probably at about 5 feet. The looter did not know about the in-ground pool in the yard and proceeded to walk into it. As luck would have it, he could not swim and drowned in the pool. Last week, the home owners had a pool service come in to drain and clean the pool. They found the body at the bottom of the pool with the pillow case filled with their valuables.

A comment to that "rather funny" story links to a series of images of a black man - alleged to be a looter - photoshopped into all sorts of racist scenarios.

Now I feel like that guy described in the story above. I waded into a puddle I figured wasn't too deep and ended up drowned at the bottom of pool of slime.

I'm sure the Weblog Award winner in that category will be very proud.

Comments

[Mick]

You know, it struck me back in the days of Nixon (and I've never had reason to change my mind) that wingnuts are bad scary when they're serious, but their sense of humor is positively terrifying.

The example you give above is actually fairly mild by their standards. Dubya has joked about how many people he sent to the gas chamber; Rush used to think jokes about slaves were the bee's knees; Annie goes for ripping off various (liberal) body parts in her humor; and Michelle finds death and destruction de-luscious. Michael Savage, tho, has everybody beat: he thinks the Holocaust was a laff-riot.

Their policies may keep me awake nights but what they think is funny gives me the heebie-jeebies. A run-down house can be repaired, but what do you do when it's also haunted?

[Helga Fremlin]

Just one word: UNBELIEVABLE!

[Jeff]

Hey, IF I ever get a nod (Oh Koufax Gods, let it be so!), it'll be in the "Blogs With the Number of Readers it Takes to Fill a Phone Booth--Or Less" category.

This encouragement, but I have no free porn to offer you.

[The Heretik]

The first step is admitting you made a mistake.