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fyodor|11.15.04 @ 3:41PM|#
You're supposed to burn the big effigy, not yourself!
|11.15.04 @ 3:44PM|#
Democrats sure are taking the loss hard.
|11.15.04 @ 4:02PM|#
Hey, Brian Doherty has a captivating new volume out about the Burning Man festival:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316711543/reasonmagazineA/
Perhaps this guy loves the book too and he wanted give Brian an advertising opportunity!
Warren|11.15.04 @ 4:10PM|#
I thought self-immolation was a crazy Buddhist thing. Crazy Muslims are suppose to take a few infidels with them.
|11.15.04 @ 4:17PM|#
There's all kinds of crazy shit in DC.
Locals: were the homeless people with homemade signs, muttering to themselves, more afraid of Bush or Kerry this year?
|11.15.04 @ 4:17PM|#
Oh, Doherty's book is "This is Burning Man......"
.....I thought his book was "This Charming Man," a libertarian retrospective on Morrissey's career.
|11.15.04 @ 4:30PM|#
Then there's the book "November Spawned a Monster," with Morrissey's take on the 2000 election....
|11.15.04 @ 4:41PM|#
If D.C. is now Saigon a la 1963, then we're talkin' ill omens!
|11.15.04 @ 4:43PM|#
This strikes you people as funny?
fyodor|11.15.04 @ 4:52PM|#
No, but it's an opportunity to make funny.
|11.15.04 @ 5:00PM|#
joe,
When it happened, on CNBC they said his injuries appeared to be minor but you're right anyway.
|11.15.04 @ 5:02PM|#
And also, what fyodor said.
Phil|11.15.04 @ 5:44PM|#
And also the classic "me stubbing my toe vs. you falling down a manhole and dying" definitions of tragedy and comedy.
|11.15.04 @ 6:41PM|#
And there's the old aphorism: "It's always funny until somebody gets hurt -- and then it's f---ing hilarious!"
I also think our natural tendency to emphasize with the victim is largely mitigated by the immolation being self-inflicted. (With some reservations, considering that the guy might not be in his right mind.)
|11.15.04 @ 6:55PM|#
Granting the rights to life, liberty and property I've got no issues with self-immolation. He's got the power of disposal.
Although I might have to sue him for creating a public nuisance. The smell of burnt flesh is fairly nauseating.
And I second what Stevo said, although I don't see how he is a victim.
|11.15.04 @ 7:24PM|#
C'mon guys, leave Joe alone. He's still recovering.
Once he gets his plane ticket to Canada he'll be in a better mood.
|11.15.04 @ 8:17PM|#
It's not even mid-November, and I've already had to shovel my driveway. You think I'm going NORTH?!?
Sorry to say, you WILL have joe to kick around anymore.