Monday, January 13, 2014

I Will Look At Pretty Pictures

I will look at pretty pictures. I will take deep, calming breaths. I will not succumb to the urge to kill peoplethis stupid jerk who was executive editor of The New York Times & his horrid wife. (If a jury convicted me they'd deserve to get it too. And really, who doesn't deserve to "get it?" All of you will, but this firmly convinced me that many should go well before any biblical three-score & ten. And painfully. "Humane" executions are for the weak.) Look at this crap:
Lisa Bonchek Adams is a mother of three living with Stage 4 breast cancer. She blogs and tweets about what she is undergoing and the decisions she is making about her health; she does so frequently and to a large audience that’s rooting for her. And to a prominent husband-wife pair of journalists, she’s somehow offensive.

Bill Keller, the former executive editor of the New York Times, published an Op-Ed in that paper today indicating that Adams, in spite of the image of positivity and strength she generally broadcasts on her social media platforms, is dying and doing so in a manner somehow undignified; Keller draws a comparison between Adams and his late father-in-law. “His death seemed to me a humane and honorable alternative to the frantic medical trench warfare that often makes an expensive misery of death in America.”

That “trench warfare” has, for Adams, included a variety of medical studies; Keller indicates that Adams’ personal decisions about her health, and her expressing herself online, somehow detracts from people who choose not to undergo experimental treatments or who choose to slip under with less of what is traditionally known as “fighting.” He even finds a Stanford associate dean who is willing to say that Adams “shouldn’t be unduly praised. Equal praise is due to those who accept an inevitable fate with grace and courage.”
There truly is not torture awful enough for these two abominations. Do they not even understand the age & shit-left-to-do differences between a father-in-law & a mother of still young (We assume. She hasn't married any of them off has she?) children?

W.A.S.P.-holes like the Kellers are invited to act out the stoicism, lick-spittle toadyism & general submission to authority/worship of death that marks their failing culture & die quietly. Now!

2 comments:

BadTux said...

I assume they are Republicans. Which means they believe the only health plan that anybody other than the wealthy needs is the Republican health plan. Which as Alan Grayson points out, is don't get sick, and if you do, die quickly.

Because, y'know, us little people, there's just too many of us anyhow, right? Right?!

- Badtux the Rage Penguin

Glennis said...

The Kellers are particularly vile. There may be people in this world who would read Lisa's blog and get annoyed with it, but they'd have the decency to STFU rather than use their privilege to put out not one but two gratuitously selfish op eds scolding a dying woman for having the gall to share her experience.

Self-important pieces of shit.