Neanderpundit

Yesterday I counseled hatred for Jared Lee Loughner, and I have to retract that- I dislike and don’t do hatred. At least, I work very hard to try to avoid it.

See, if I had a houseful of cats, or a barnload of chickens, and there was a coyote and a fox, I’d shoot them both in a new york minute. But I wouldn’t hate them- in fact, I love dogs, and would be sad to have to destroy them- but the good of my chickens comes before the predator.

I’m not going to counsel hatred; instead, I’d like for this guy to be taken down like a mad dog, like a predator in a target rich environment. To hate someone- anyone, I think- is wrong. Better to dispassionately eliminate the threat from our society and thus be shut of the whole menace.

Tam is bitching- and rightfully so- at the “jackals” in the press who are associating the asshole in Arizona with one group or another hoping to stir up ant-whatever sentiment.

I have been around jackals. This casts unfair aspersions on Jackals. Hyenas might be closer to the fact. Jackals are downright familial and friendly members of the dog family by comparison.

Listen: I don’t need the press to tell me this or that or the other is a bastard. I’ve known this for some time.

Anyone who has ever been in a failed relationship or who has dealt with the license bureau or the INS knows, people are bastards. Most of them. When you find people who are not, you value them, and cherish them.

Don’t hate Jared Lee Loughner because he’s a marxist, or teabagger, or leftist, or whatever.

But don’t not hate him.

Hate him because he’s scum. Only scum would do this. Only scum kills an innocent kid.

There are plenty of reasons to be misanthropic, I can give you a billion before breakfast without even reading the news first. All the more reason to keep your friends close and safe.

Keep a happy thought for the victims and their families.