Anger Management

This is really tiresome, and it never goes away. Expecting anyone to put up with the “slings and arrows of outrageous” rightwingers 24-7-365 without responding is well beyond the pale. I would recommend that in the future when he comments on Miss Noonan, Mr. Wolcott should refrain from saying: “Now put a sock in it and flake off.”

Miss Noonan no doubt has a lavender scented Irish linen handkerchief with hand-crocheted pansies in the bottom of the left sleeve of her cardigan that would be much more appropriate than a sock. Consider that the sock might have once been worn by Mr. Reagan and the shock might be too much for her.

Mr. Greenwald in his article, The virtues of passion and anger, notes a number of violations of good manners that might increase one’s blood pressure and notes the good purposes to which that extra energy might be put.

Personally, all I have to do is read of abusing power by minions of the Shrubbery to get really ticked off. Things like: Nurse sues over ticket for anti-Bush bumper sticker

A woman who was ticketed for having an obscene anti-Bush bumper sticker filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against a county in the state of Georgia and its officials.

Denise Grier, 47, of Athens, Georgia, got a $100 ticket in March after a DeKalb County police officer spotted the bumper sticker, which read “I’m Tired Of All The BUSH**.”

A DeKalb judge threw out the ticket in April because the state’s lewd decal law that formed the basis for the ticket was ruled unconstitutional in 1990.

Abuse of color of office for political retribution should result in firings right up that officer’s chain of command. That type of manipulation of the law gets officers killed. If the police don’t respect the laws, neither will the community. That is a corrupt cop. If he’ll bend the law for politics, he can’t be trusted.