For reasons I do not clearly remember (something about it being “too easy”?), I have been avoiding writing commentary in this dusty little shelf of the web, but every now and then, I just have to sit back, relax, put on some peaceful music, and let my comment monster out of the box for some exercise.

So here we go, me taking a rare moment out of my usual rectal self-insertion and occasional brief fits of fiction and rambling philosophizing to talk about things other people are also talking about for a change.

I promise, things will go back to weird tomorrow.

But first, Occupy Wall Street.

I knew I just had to say something about this marvelous phenomenon that I feel privileged to be alive to witness and that, to me, represents the most heartwarming, wonderful, genuine, and simply miraculous thing that has yet to happen in my thirty eight years of life.

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I support it.

In fact, support is far too mild a word. I love it, with a fervour and a vehemence bordering on the religious. I love how spontaneous it is, how honest, how completely nonviolent, how pure its idealism, how theatrical it is, and how these young people have turned what might have been a brief show of disapproval into dozens of small self-sufficient communities that feed and help and support one another, thus showing the world how this “community” thing is done.

And best of all, it means they can stay as long as they like.

And the proof that this is something that needed (and needs) to happen is how the mainstream media completely cannot handle it. They fall all over themselves trying to find some way to safely wrap it in a sound bite and dismiss it so they can go back to nice safe celebrity gossip news, and they just plain cannot. Just by staying there and not going away, the Occupy participants all over the world keep themselves in the news and thus keep their message in the democratic conversation worldwide.

I don’t know where it is all leading. But things are happening. The mainstream opinion is “I support their message, if not their tactics”, even though nobody can say what is wrong with their tactics, exactly. What is wrong with just hanging around not hurting anybody? Compared to the hippies of the Sixties, these kids are extremely organized, well-behaved, on message, responsible, clean, sincere, and sober. I cannot see anything wrong with what they are doing at all.

Maybe that is the problem. It conflicts too strongly with people’s lazy cynicism.

And most amusing of all, the Fox News and Tea Party types cannot help but be against this, as they are deeply committed to pure unadulterated evil these days and this represents all the good, wholesome, loving, Christian virtues they so violently despise. And so they have to fume and rail about leftish people doing the exact same things they praised when it was the Tea Party doing it, except without the guns and screaming and spitting on Congressmen and muttering darkly about “Second Amendment solutions”.

What they are really angry about is how effortlessly these young people have made them all look so bad. Deep down, they know they are evil villainous creatures made of bile and manure, and so the very sight of something so good and clean and pure fills them with quivering, drooling, foaming, fulminating rage.

And the best part is that there is absolutely nothing they can do about it.

So they are left to scream and rant and spew and stew in their own foul emissions and strew their own dens with their own venomous filth. The worse it gets, the angrier they get, and the more they foul their own nests, and the worse it gets.

It’s a beautiful thing.

And now Gadafi is dead. The other bastard dictators of the area must be shitting in their shoes, wondering if they will be next. And all for only about a billion dollars, and no Western lives lost.

Bet that burns them the hell up too.

Personally, I wish he had been captured alive and faced trial. Not only would that be more legal and proper, it would send a far, far better message to other tinpot totalitarians that they will not get to be rich and prosperous up until the moment their enemies kill them, but will be reduced to the status of a mere criminal, paraded in front of the world in total humiliation, then left to rot and be forgotten in some obscure prison far from their home country.

Death, they can live with, as long as they die on top.

Being reduced to less than an average citizen is far, far worse.