Army of Dog

I like to troll the internet looking for morons, it’s a target-rich environment as they say. For example, someone writing a letter to the editor arguing that being armed makes one more likely to be attacked.

Re: “I now have a fighting chance,” by Lawrence Bradford, Thursday Letters.

Mr. Bradford writes in support of the “castle law” that, in his 40 years of living in Texas, he’s been shot at and threatened several times. He also offers the fact he’s now almost always armed.

As a nearly 45-year-old native Texan, I can say with a straight face that I’ve never been shot at. Then again, I’m never armed.

I can’t help but wonder if there’s any correlation between always being armed and finding oneself the target of attack.

Melody Townsel, Dallas

To be fair, she didn’t actually argue anything, she just insinuated it in the most condescending manner she could come up with. No support of her claim except the anecdotal evidence of her own experience. This is why I love blogs, if she had posted something like this on a public forum or blog, I could immediately respond with scorn, derision, and possibly a fancy argument to thwart hers. When it shows up in a newspaper, all I can do is blog about it or go out and punch a hippie to make myself feel better. The hippie is in the corner crying.

And yes, the Melody Townsel who wrote the letter is probably this woman:

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration’s nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations once threw a file folder and a tape dispenser at an American businesswoman in Moscow, disparaged her weight and alleged she was gay in an attempt to get her to withdraw criticism of a foreign-aid project, the woman said Wednesday.

In a telephone interview, Melody Townsel, who heads her own public relations firm in Dallas, discussed allegations she made in a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before the panel began confirmation hearings on John Bolton, who was until recently the State Department’s top diplomat for arms control.

Bolton’s nomination is in jeopardy because of last-minute objections by Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, who told the committee Tuesday that allegations about Bolton’s behavior suggest he does not meet standards of propriety appropriate for such an important position. Faced with objections from Voinovich and at least two other Republican senators, the committee agreed to postpone a vote on Bolton’s nomination until next month.

She writes letters to the Dallas Morning News on a pretty regular basis, all with a left-wing slant to them. All of this means that we were denied the continued service of the most effective UN ambassador in history by a fucking idiot. Swell.