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<\/a>There is no excusing or justifying Mel’s behavior but there is a reason for it. I don’t know what it is. It suggests a raging psychosis that must be chemically treated and held in check. But, hell. I don’t know. How would I?<\/p>\nHow would you?<\/p>\n
I don’t care what happens to Mel Gibson. Well, I do care but only in an abstract way. What I care about more is the cheap thrill we get from the pervasive, nonstop media airings of Mel and Oksana’s dirty laundry.<\/p>\n
It relieves us to mock and spit on our icons.<\/p>\n
Who cares if Mel eats a bullet?<\/p>\n
And while we’re at it, send that booze-sucking slut, Lindsay, to jail and throw away the key.<\/p>\n
We made them. When we’re finished playing we’ll destroy them.<\/p>\n
“The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.” *
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nLighten up, it’s all in good fun. These people aren’t real people, we invented them.<\/p>\n
It’s not my fault Michael Jackson was weird; I didn’t kill him. He did it to himself. He was weird.<\/p>\n
And I was finished with him, anyway.<\/p>\n
“We was on the outside. We never done nothing, we never seen nothing.”*
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nIt’s been a week. The story is old. Oksana will thrive. Mel will live or he won’t.<\/p>\n
Who’s next?<\/p>\n
“after all we aren’t savages really…” *<\/strong><\/p>\n* William Golding, Lord of the Flies<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a9 2010 by David L. Williams, all rights reserved<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson is a bug. He needs to be squished. He is famously handsome, funny, lovable, talented and wealthy. Which is why he must now be squished. It’s what we do to our icons, right? 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<\/a>There is no excusing or justifying Mel’s behavior but there is a reason for it. I don’t know what it is. It suggests a raging psychosis that must be chemically treated and held in check. But, hell. I don’t know. How would I?<\/p>\n