but but but why?
Because your collective response to the deeply stupid bumper sticker was morally tepid clucking, and emoticons.
While the response to Nikita’s heartfelt tactful plea, and shy offering of storge was … running away in dead fish silence, directing your eyes to some random spot on the cyberwall, and generally acting as if she just took a shit in the celebratory punchbowl.
That’s how we do, ennit?
That’s fuckin’ why.
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(I got the taxes all the way done in one sitting today, and it affected my mood some.
I’m sending this out several hours after-tax and after the Incident, later in the evening.
Maybe some of you had your phones off, and good on you for that part. Maybe you individually gave her your love backchannel. So, theoretical half loaves, but–if so–I apologize to you for my blanket profane outburst.
Otherwise, I stand by every word, just exactly as written in the heat.)
Speaking of clucking.
Lord that woman is a bodhisattva just like her daddy.
God grant me the same serenity, in His name, amen.