Taki Taki

High life | 16 November 2017

A day among the country’s brightest and best has restored my faith in the Home of the Depraved

What is left to say after the church shooting in the Home of the Depraved? Those killed in Texas included a toddler, several children and eight members of one family at prayer. It is almost too hard to fathom. I’ve been here for six weeks and three mass-murder sprees have taken place, two perpetrated by deranged male shooters, the other by a disciple of Allah from Uzbekistan, who unfortunately survived a cop’s bullet and demanded an Isis flag be raised in his hospital room. Nice.

At least that ghastly man Jann Wenner has not plastered the Uzbek scumbag on the cover of Rolling Stone. After the Boston marathon massacre, he put the murderer, a Kyrgyzstani-American of Chechen descent, on the cover and carried a story that presented him as a typical American teenager. It takes a very sick mind (and Wenner sure has one), coupled with great greed, to put a mass murderer on the cover of a magazine and present him almost sympathetically. I used to know Wenner and now I read that he stands accused of offering the writer Ben Ryan work in exchange for sex (he denies it). Wenner is one bad dude.

Bad dudes seem to be everywhere nowadays. There is so much violence in movies and on TV — and even more in those stupid video games — that it almost seems normal. And so much hatred. Don’t forget that after the Las Vegas massacre, a senior CBS lawyer wrote on Facebook that she didn’t feel bad because the victims were country music fans and ‘country music fans are often gun toting Republicans’. (She was fired for it.) But she sure let the cat out of the bag: an educated senior executive disregarded the mass murders of innocent people because they were Republicans.

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