Tuesday Oddities

It looks like things are as slow in Scranton, PA as they were in San Jose when I had my accident. And then cops wonder why nobody likes them. There are very few people in our extremely stressed out society that wouldn't let a few choice words fly while trying to stop a toilet on the second floor from overflowing. And tell you where to go and how to get there if you were hindering instead of helping. The next door neighbor had two choices. One grab a plunger and head on over to help or two, close the window and be thankful it isn't your toilet. Unfortunately, the neighbor was a cop and decided that the situation needed official intervention. 90 days in jail and a $300 fine are definitely adding insult to injury. Good fences make good neighbors, maybe the cop should be surrounded by soundwalls since it was affronted so easily.

Too close for comfort. Once again the commenters hold true to form. My question is this: why is it considered to be bad to try and kill yourself but if you are on death row everybody encourages the sentiment? If the death penalty is supposed to be punishment, why should a convicted killer get what they want? If Timothy McVeigh had processed through the system as slowly as everyone else does or even been kept alive for a few months more, he would have spent several years in a very lonely cell knowing that he was just a pimple on history's ass. Totally eclipsed and forgotten as America races to punish those who are different. That would have been justice and not the revenge everyone settled for. Instead he got to go out with a smirk on his face, positive he had struck the ultimate blow for his cause. He got to die the way he wanted to, believing that history would remember him as a freedom fighter. He got off easy. The death penalty is not a cure, otherwise murder would have died out long ago.