Sick, sick, sick:

The American people, including the families of the murdered Virginia Tech innocents, have collective blood-guilt on their hands. I have not gone to jail to protest the war machine, so I am no better than they and probably a good deal worse because I have given the issue some thought. How many of those parents in the audience hearing the President’s words had elected to Congress men and women who voted for lax laws on gun ownership? How many of those parents in the audience had also voted for legislators who backed the president’s illegal invasion of Iraq? Are we, as a nation, too obtuse to grasp the connection between our “gun culture” policy at home and our militarist policy abroad that murders and mutilates human beings at every turn? Practically any one in America can buy a gun, and abroad, any dictator in the world can buy weapons made in America because we just happen to be the world’s biggest arms peddler.

Oh for chrissake, get over yourself, Sherwood. What a complete putz.

What kind of a society has America become? Why do we have two-million men in our prisons? Why, in some cities, is every second or third male either in prison or out on parole? Why is the murder rate soaring in so many cities? Why is there on average more than one killing a day in a city like Philadelphia? Why are our own terrorists murdering 30,000 Americans each year and injuring tens of thousands more with rapid-fire handguns of the sort used on the Virginia Tech campus?

And there it is: “rapid-fire handguns,” handily proving that Sherwood, as is the case with so many of his “journalist” colleagues, doesn’t know the first damned thing about his subject. But wait, this fact-free trainwreck of a column just careens ever on:

Who is responsible for the killings in Iraq except the same now bereaved parents of the murdered students at Virginia Tech? It’s not that some of them voted to elect George Bush. Anyone can be deceived, particularly by a notorious liar. But when the president broke the law and invaded Iraq, violating the UN Charter, how many of them protested? Today they are upset that a young, crazed gunman has ran amok on the campus of a peaceful university, but where were they when President Bush defied the United Nations and ran amok in Iraq?

You knew it was coming, din’tcha? Yep, for a certain segment of delusional obsessives in our country, everything — EVERYTHING — must somehow be All About Bush. Hurricanes, tsunamis, global warming, unsatisfactory tattoos, the heartbreak of psoriasis, simple chronic halitosis, you name it: a specific, very common type of Lefty nutjob will always, always cherchez le Dubya, and their febrile dementia will always find him for them, too. Hint to Sherwood: this ranting, frothing mess you’ve penned makes you look far, far worse than you’ll ever be able to do for Bush. Your hateful attempt to climb up onto the VT corpses — and a whole slew of others, too — so as to take better aim at the President you so despise is undone by your obvious diseased irrationality. Get help, Sherwood; you truly are one sick puppy.

The same parents who weep for their children might consider that they and their neighbors are also spending a half trillion dollars a year so that the Pentagon, just over the horizon from Virginia Tech, can wage a war that is snuffing out the lives of children of other parents just like their own. Thousands of Virginians work for the military-industrial complex. They work for the Pentagon. They work for defense contractors. They work for the Central Intelligence Agency. They are in the business of killing directly or indirectly, yet how many of them are haunted by the consequences of their “jobs” in their dreams at night?

All across America, people who attend church and regard themselves as “good” people, such as the bereaved at Virginia Tech, are working in the plants that make atomic bombs and warplanes and napalm and cluster bombs and are creating new, demonical designs of germ warfare and space-based weapons so vile and horrible they defy description.

America as a nation has become an organized nightmare.

I hate to have to repeat this every so often, but at this point I really have to ask if anyone could please explain to me why it is that Sherwood is still fucking here? Why doesn’t he just get the hell out of this awful country, blighted stain on posterity as he so patently regards it? It’s plain he despises every least thing about it, although I’m also sure he’d huff and puff and blow about “questioning my patriotism” for pointing that out.

Leave, Sherwood. Leave now. There is simply nothing here for you. You don’t belong here. You are a sorry excuse for a man. You are a most dismal writer. Even the crudest of moral distinctions escape you. You are a self-righteous, narcissistic twit. You have the ethical sophistication of a five-year-old, and plainly nuance, complexity, and a reasonable grasp of reality are beyond your feeble ken. You have herein elevated pusillanimity and vacuousness to a singularly unedifying species of “art.”

You obviously want and need a government nanny looking out for you 24/7/365. Most any European socialist state will be happy to provide all the looking-after you so obviously need. Leave us scary Americans to our rough, dangerous, freewheeling nation. You are in no way deserving of the blessings of liberty earned and maintained for you by the people you so blithely dismiss as “evil” (note well that even in the midst of spewing so much bilious hatred for America and the base evil it represents to him, the putz Sherwood can’t spare a condemnatory word for the likes of bin Laden) whose boots you are not fit to lick. It’s just too much for you, and I’m sure the diaper changes are getting expensive.

Stop sniveling, you despicable excrescence, and get out. Before some real American comes along, gets offended by the very sight of you, and kicks your punk ass up between your shoulder blades.

(Via Crittendon)

Update! Oops – link screwy. Fixed now. My bad. Sorry.