Burned

[pallas_athena]

It has come to my attention that my nation, despite finally having elected a cool President, is still afflicted with a tragic case of The Stupid. There was the ongoing theatre-of-ugh involving certain sectors getting unnecessarily exercised about the "Ground Zero mosque" (note: not at "Ground Zero"; not a mosque). Then some dickbag in Florida posts one sentence's worth of idiocy on Facebook about burning the Koran, and the media fall for it and give him airtime, and the government gets involved and suddenly Rev. Dickbag is headline news. Well done, ladies and gents, your Pulitzers are in the post.

So it gives me great joy finally to have something positive to report on the state of religious relations in my homeland. Namely, that last Saturday in Amarillo, Texas, a Koran-burning was prevented by a 23-year-old skateboarder who yoinked the holy volume away while the burner (head of a local group best known for harassing swingers) wasn't looking.

“He said something about burning the Qur’an. Then I snuck up behind him and told him, ‘Dude, you have no Qur’an,’ and ran off.”

I know it's a small victory, but it's a sweet one.

Comments

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Oh, that really does rock. Hooray for the skateboarder of joy and tolerance and win. :-)

[larissa-00.livejournal.com]

So Bill and Ted! :-))