Downey Syndrome

If The Western Star must publish a regular column from pro wrestling columnist turned geopolitical analyst Michael Downey, can't they at least run it on a day other than Saturday? Nothing can wreck a perfectly good Saturday morning like reading this:

...I'm looking at the underside of a building. Underneath the Breaking News headline is a caption indicating something about NORAD dispatching aircraft in American airspace.

My first instinct is buried beneath subdued excitement. Have terrorists struck the United States? I admit, I felt tickled. Since it's clear that US paranoia over invisible terrorists and threats fabricated from the soiled material that is white trash ignorance aren't going to disperse anytime soon, then I may find an ounce of comfort if some of the US's fears are substantiated.

The comfort I may recieve could possibly be reduced to an irresponsible grin that my neighbour isn't a complete paranoid moron - people do in fact hate him - enough that they occasionally throw bags of burning waste onto his doorstep. I'll grin a little, root for the bad guy, and feel no sympathy as I go back to bed made with the clean sheets of a clean conscience.

I expect Downey's column encouraging everyone to watch Loose Change to run some time around mid-November. And by next spring, he'll be ending every column with the phrase, "Allahu Akbar."

Damian P.

Posted by damian at October 14, 2006 02:25 PM