Bye Ted

And the Unabomber has gone to join Pat Robertson. Suicide, according to some sources, which seems a bit… late in the day for that option, he’d already been in jail for 27 years, but then again Rudolf Hess took even longer to check himself out of Spandau. I’ve never done anything to warrant spending the rest of my life in jail, so I’ll confess to not knowing the psychological effects of doing so and why you might suddenly snap after decades…

Anyway, there goes someone else whose passing I won’t celebrate or mourn; I don’t have much if any time for anti-technology people who don’t seem to see the irony in needing technology to promulgate their beliefs, and even less time for people who kill other people in the name of those beliefs… Equally, though, I don’t think he was entirely wrong about technology being a catastrophe; after all, technology made it possible for Charlie Kirk to do this:

Fucking ghoul. As I was saying just the other day about the mental illness of the American right…