tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post8935040151708135852..comments2024-02-24T19:42:39.876+05:30Comments on Bill the Butcher: Death as Entertainment: A Discussion on the Hunt For Christopher DornerBill the Butcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436195659154078021noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post-30789620754869824192013-02-18T10:31:23.926+05:302013-02-18T10:31:23.926+05:30First of all, I am glad I'm not the only one w...First of all, I am glad I'm not the only one who does not think much of the odious writing of Stephen King. I am consistently stunned by how many otherwise intelligent readers believe he is a writer. (STILL better than the shockingly bad John Grisham, however...)<br /><br />I am also happy that you were able to enunciate that, for the purposes of your analysis, it doesn't matter whether this guy's complaints had merit. It is exactly the treatment of worthless nuts that determines how seriously a society values the rights of its citizens.<br /><br />All that being said, I wish that one of these manifestos - just one! - could be written just a little more coherently. So you have committed a crime, captured the country's attention for a day or two - take advantage of that by getting a coherent rant out to the masses! <br /><br />Ah well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post-62947697734096099382013-02-17T21:11:21.071+05:302013-02-17T21:11:21.071+05:30You connected the dots on this one brilliantly, Bi...You connected the dots on this one brilliantly, Bill. I'd the same thoughts, myself, as the whole story was unfolding.<br /><br /><i>Panem et circenses,</i> indeed.<br /><br />Good bad or indifferent - King's book is proving to be prescient....astranavigohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11182458764131811634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post-28777558354234653602013-02-17T09:24:02.360+05:302013-02-17T09:24:02.360+05:30https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/25916...https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/2591662759/aa-bread-and-circuses-romans1.jpegChihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01301786815598078257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post-17986585774568749842013-02-17T04:03:59.809+05:302013-02-17T04:03:59.809+05:30Terrible things happen. When they happen in Americ...Terrible things happen. When they happen in America to American people, we linger on every detail, to the point where it is violence porn. Those (white) (mostly) kids at Sandy Hook, CT, got shot up and we got days and days of it, unnecessary days. (Disturbingly there were discussions about whether this was the worst shooting, thereby tempting someone to create a worse shooting.) During this time, I believe there were several drone strikes that killed non-American children in Afghanistan/Pakistan and not a bit of attention was paid. I guess the -stan kids weren't cute enough. On to Dorner.<br /><br />The time that was spent viewing the burning cabin was NOT spent discussing the issues of the upcoming SOTU address or Obama's position on drone attacks. Or anything beyond what Michelle Obama might wear. <br /><br />The whole Dorner affair - the coverage of it - was carefully choreographed pornography to distract us from the carnage taking place now far away, and the carnage that might take place, soon, not so far away. <br /><br />There'll be more.benni https://www.blogger.com/profile/09942386013237815777noreply@blogger.com