THE UNTIDY SUICIDES OF YR DEGENERATE CHILDREN

I didn’t keep up with too much news during my US travels – mainly because I spent 60% of it in Maryville-Alcoa, where if it’s not about church, college football or the weather, it doesn’t count as news, and partly because none of the hotels we stayed in had BBC World. Plus, I didn’t bring my laptop.

But on occasion – in airports and hotel lobbies equipped with flatscreens – I did see some headlines, a recurring one being the Tyler Clementi case, and a number of similar cases of bullying driving gay/lesbian students to suicide. And I confess to being both mystified and annoyed by the sudden desire by the media to parse the whole bullying issue as though it were anything new.

Because it’s not.

I’m not saying bullying isn’t a problem – it is, no matter what yr sexual orientation may be. The thing is, not only has it been a problem for generations, it’s also a problem that everyone already knows.

You can’t grow up in an education system and NOT know about it. Every student body in the world can be broken down into three basic groups: (1) the kids who get picked on, (2) the kids who pick on them and (3) the kids who stay on the sidelines and pretend to laugh at the victims to avoid becoming a target themselves.

You were there. You know the deal. You know how it works.

So I get irritated by these media circuses that take the Bloody Obvious and treat it like some new shocking epidemic, as if it’s only really a problem when students start killing themselves (and, on occasion, taking as many of their classmates as possible with them) – only to drop it a week later and move on to the next Big Story.

But then I was firmly in group (1) for most of my education, was also picked on for being gay (even though I wasn’t gay) from 8th grade on, and spent pretty much my entire post-primary education wishing desperately I had the nerve to kill myself. So I would say that, wouldn’t I?

Don’t get me wrong – it’s good that it’s being talked about, especially given the current climate of homophobia being fostered by the usual suspects who, predictably, claim that Tyler Clementi would still be alive today if only the Homosexuals and the Homosexual Agenda hadn’t encouraged him to be gay in the first place.

I just think it’ll take more than Anderson Cooper holding town hall meetings to deal with such things, because from my POV, lack of awareness is not the problem. The problem is that too many people are part of the problem but pretend it’s someone else’s problem.

Not that I have any brilliant solution on how to tackle the bullying issue. But I’m pretty sure that separate schools for gay students isn’t it.

Three o’clock high,

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BRING OUT YR GODZILLAS

Or, “That’s a big motherf***ing wheelbarrow.”



Via Twisted Vintage.

They say he’s got to go,

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ALIENS ATE MY CRUISE MISSILE

Yr Fortean headline of the day:

“The US Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it.”

Colonel Charles Halt said he watched Unidentified Flying Objects directing beams of light into RAF Bentwaters airbase near Ipswich and heard on the radio that they landed in the nuclear weapons storage area.

Col Halt said: “I believe that the security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted – both then and now – to subvert the significance of what occurred at RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practised methods of disinformation.”

As for why aliens are monkeying with our nukes, UFO expert Robert Hastings explains:

Mr Hastings stated that beings from UFOs had also tinkered with Soviet nuclear weapons and speculated that the aliens had been seeking to send “a sign to Washington and Moscow that we are playing with fire”.

The truth is out there,

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