Comments | paranoid_monkey: hooray, jesse helms is gone!

paranoid_monkey

hooray, jesse helms is gone!

Jul 04, 2008 23:54

jesse helms died today. i can without any shame whatsoever say that i reacted with unmitigated delight, and i don't make a habit of taking pleasure in the suffering or death of others. helms is the one person for whom i'll make an exception. jesse helms was a truly evil human being. this is the man who told a friend of his, a woman he'd known for ( Read more... )

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aquafolius July 5 2008, 13:38:00 UTC

let's just hope the cemetary has some sense and puts tile over the mound instead of sod.

you know, so people can comfortably dance.

paranoid_monkey July 6 2008, 04:21:24 UTC

i like that idea!! can we lobby for a disco ball? he would have /hated/ a disco ball. it's, you know, kinda gay.

paranoid_monkey July 6 2008, 04:22:25 UTC

also, i'm sure he'll end up buried in oakwood cemetary, and when i get to raleigh in a few weeks (i'll be staying near that cemetary, no less) i'm totally going to go look at the grave so i can bitterly hate all the flowery tributes, all while rejoicing in the fact that i'll never have to hear new hateful quotes from him again. (i repeat: yay!)

aquafolius July 6 2008, 06:17:43 UTC

you should do what my great-aunt did to a rather disgustingly rude neighbor.

She blessed his yard.

With snow salt.

den_down_unda July 6 2008, 02:04:33 UTC

Don't mince words, Soph. Tell us how you really feel. :)

(And know that somewhere right now, Hunter S. Thompson is smiling.)

paranoid_monkey July 6 2008, 04:19:50 UTC

weeeeell having not been born in a barn, and what with the taboo against speaking ill of the dead and all (i think it's exagerated, but i did grow up with it), i did feel weird expressing such glee at the man's death... but he was truly loathsome. and i take him personally, cuz he made it very very clear for most of my childhood and adolescence that he wanted people like me literally to die. so.... yeah. i know i'm descending to his level, but dude, at least i'm not running around calling myself a christian while i'm doing it. also, i don't have the power to destroy the lives of millions of people. so.... glee 3, guilt .5 .

nation obit den_down_unda July 9 2008, 05:30:32 UTC

Hiya, you might want to check out The Nation's piece on JH, it's a lot more fitting than the NYT. ;) --ekny

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/duggan

Re: nation obit paranoid_monkey July 11 2008, 08:52:35 UTC

that's much better. i heart the nation!