Here is a new author you can not pay attention to the byline of and mistake me for. -Ed.

I find the relative silence about the homicide of John Wheeler interesting (relax, I’m not a conspiracy theorist). When Michael Jackson, a popular singer, died, TV programs were interrupted with the breaking news and for a long time you couldn’t escape hearing about it unless you lived under a rock in a desolate waste and wore ear plugs, ear muffs, and a sleep mask over your eyes. When John Wheeler, a defense expert, former presidential aide who also happened to be in a dispute with a neighbor, turns up dead in a landfill (apparently with some assistance getting dead and into the garbage truck), it gets relegated to a brief blurb in the evening news. When Michael Jackson died, we got updates that there were no updates (frankly, if they don’t know anything, I wish they would shut up, not blather on ad nauseum about nothing, and return me to my regularly scheduled programming). I haven’t seen any updates about John Wheeler. Someone who pranced around in sequins got treated with all the pomp and ceremony of royalty; a long time high level public servant gets thrown out with trash. So, if you want recognition and respect, don’t do anything significant like serving your country and keeping it as safe as possible. For recognition and respect, learn how to sing and dance suggestively, live like a perverted drug addicted lunatic, and die young.

Reader Otto sent this in:

You can prohibit hippies? How come Malaysia figured this out and not us? Do you think it would work, or would we just be awash in illegal hippies to the point I’d wear out my punching fist?

Oh, I guess the Constitution might stop us from prohibiting hippies. Guess we can just add an amendment: “None of these rights shall be construed as applying towards hippies.”

Do you remember caring about liberals in the aftermath of 9/11? I don’t; too angry at terrorists to worry about some nonsense argument with fellow Americans. Very few people retreated to politics when faced with such a tragedy. I only remember a couple examples like Michael Moore who wondered why the terrorists didn’t a pick a place they could kill Republicans, but it was a break from politics on both sides for a while. Well, week or two.

Now with the shooting in Tuscon, it was mere minutes before people were trying to make it political. Of course, in this instance, the right would have gladly left politics out but many on the left thought they saw blood in the water and immediately went into a frenzy. I’m starting to wonder if 9/11 set the bar – if anything is not as tragic as that, then we can immediately retreat to our politics. Like if terrorists blow up a bus, we’ll be in full political bickering while the victims are still being identified.

Anyway, this last week wore on me. It shouldn’t be part of regular discourse having to assure people you’re not responsible for murder. I can’t believe how many media outlets actually went along with that absolute paranoid nonsense. Do you even have to point out the irony of whining about discourse while making bad faiths accusations of murder against your political opponents? Only good thing is there is no indication the left is influential to any one other than themselves these days, so I guess we could just ignore them. Of course, then they might go crazy and hurt people to get attention.

Oh. Too late.

There are lots of laws making sure Paul Krugman can’t get a gun, right?

Cross-posted at America is an Obamanation!