A Descent into Dullness

I'm just going to quote Tucker Stone of The Factual Opinion, from his weekly recap of The Economist

She spoke the truth, and now she's dead. She might have been a target, as the human-rights lawyer she was walking with--who was shot seconds before her--was. She might have been trying to save that man's life.

She was 25 years old.

Twenty-five, and she'd done more than most--admittedly, she'd had opportunities that few could imagine--a Russian journalist gets a chance to choose integrity and sacrifice on a daily basis, something she grabbed with both hands. She wrote bad poems--one of which is reprinted here--she was willing to pick a fight with anyone, she was a good journalist on the way to being a great one. She cared about truth, she cared about freedom, and she believed that fascism was the biggest threat to Russia, and she believed fascism was coming, and she believed that it was her job to fight against that. She believed in that. She died for that, shot in the head last week in the street. They'll never catch who killed her. They probably won't even try.

And the night after she was murdered?

A group of Russian nationalists brought champagne and celebrated on the still bloody street.

You can take this world and shove it up your fucking ass.

No new comics for a WHOLE day. Because of some holiday. That I haven't got off in like eight years. I'm not even sure we get paid extra for it anymore...

This is Private First Class LaVena Johnson of Missouri.

Private LaVena Johnson's nose was broken, teeth were loose, one eye was concave and there were abrasions over her body. The supposed M-16 hole to the head was far too small for the revolver-sized exit wound, and was on the wrong side of her skull for a right-handed woman to have pulled the trigger. Her genital area showed evidence of acid, perhaps used to destroy DNA evidence. She had white military gloves glued to her burned hands.

Which all adds up, according to the Army coroner, that she killed herself with a self-inflicted wound from her M-16 using her off hand...

Also "Excitable Boy" was the WRONG FUCKING SONG to have playing while rereading this article...

Pointed out by kevin_church, for which he will never, EVER be forgiven...

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And now the journal is apparantly deleted. Not sure if its by choice or if it violated some part of SixApart's poorly defined rules. And given that apparantly they'll suspend for "bad" links I'm disabling this one...