And the winner of the annual stick-up-the-butt award for the complete absence of a sense of humor goes to Tracy Warner of The Journal Gazette, who says a tweet from Republican city clerk candidate -- five months ago! -- is so urgently "callow" and "shallow" that the public flogging should begin immediately. This is the tweet: “Saw parking Nazi on the corner, so I quickly went and fed every meter on the block. Got the stink eye but it felt so good! ” Tracy:
Though the Democrats' criticism comes late, calling just about anyone who is overeager to use their authority a “Nazi” is a terrible
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Sorry, but the tweet violated Godwin's Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
It did NOT violate Godwin's Law.
Tracy Warner's tweet FULFILLED Godwin's Law, by referencing Hitler.
Sorry, Leo, but I'm afraid I agree with the J-G on this one. The so-called "Soup Nazi" was an overbearing boor, but was hardly engaged in unspeakable atrocities.
Mamma always told me that I ought not curse, not because cursing was inherently wrong, but because someday, I'd really NEED curse words, and I should keep my ammunition dry. And sure as the world, that day DID eventually arrive.
When I was in college, I met a Kevin Smith who apparently made a study of Arabic style cursing. He could unleash a torrent of invective, any single word of which was perfectly acceptable in polite company, but when taken as a whole, were outrageously offensive. I've wished since that I had paid closer attention. One never knows when he might need the nuclear option.
While watching everybody's favorite scorched earth democrat mouthpiece on the local "news" blathering about how outrageously outraged he was at the use of that kind of rhetoric I was absolutely astounded by two things:
He kept a straight face through it all.
Lightning did not strike him dead.
Tim- sorry to disappoint. But since lightning did not strike me dead, that means God is on my side on this one.....
But I do appreciate your positive thoughts on my welfare.