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Because I'm feeling cranky right now...
Jul. 6th, 2006 11:37 amI think I'll repeat here what I wrote in reply to a friend posting the news of Ken Lay's fatal heart attack in her journal:
To paraphrase a great quote from Moms Mably, "My momma always said that if you don't have anything good to say about the dead, don't say nothing. He's dead. Good."
Normally I try not to take excessive joy from anybody's death - that bell tolling, and all that - but on the radio this morning, I heard somebody saying that the stress of going through the trial was what most likely did it. Then she said the thing that nearly sent me driving off the freeway in a blind rage: "This makes him as much a victim of Enron's collapse as anyone else."
Maybe in the same sense as Charles Manson was as much a victim of the Tate-LaBianca murders, but anywhere other than on Bizarro World he goddamn was anything but a victim, you stupid, stupid, stupid woman.
GOD.
Just thinking about it makes me want to throw things, I swear.
Edited to close comments - this was meant to be about venting spleen over Lay getting called a victim, not to accuse anybody in his family of anything, so I'm shutting the comments page down.
To paraphrase a great quote from Moms Mably, "My momma always said that if you don't have anything good to say about the dead, don't say nothing. He's dead. Good."
Normally I try not to take excessive joy from anybody's death - that bell tolling, and all that - but on the radio this morning, I heard somebody saying that the stress of going through the trial was what most likely did it. Then she said the thing that nearly sent me driving off the freeway in a blind rage: "This makes him as much a victim of Enron's collapse as anyone else."
Maybe in the same sense as Charles Manson was as much a victim of the Tate-LaBianca murders, but anywhere other than on Bizarro World he goddamn was anything but a victim, you stupid, stupid, stupid woman.
GOD.
Just thinking about it makes me want to throw things, I swear.
Edited to close comments - this was meant to be about venting spleen over Lay getting called a victim, not to accuse anybody in his family of anything, so I'm shutting the comments page down.
