Can't even see the trees

The ability of wingnuts to see meanings exactly the opposite of what reality shows them never ceases to amaze me. Here's LizWalkner47 (March 09, 6:03 AM), though no woman could be as bitchy as "she" is, commenting on the tragic and violent death of a woman caught in an escalator in an MBTA station:

This is what happens when you put your faith in the government to keep you out of harm's way. This woman is dead because no one was prepared, and everyone expected the government to do their jobs for them.

When are people going to realize that they are on their own?

This is a clear case of individual people failing, as we so often do, to live up to the social contract. As a result, Liz wants less of a social contract.

Another commenter, felixzeiler (March 09, 7:12 AM), nails "her":

You're right, LizWalkner. We should all have been carrying guns so we could shoot her free from the escalator.

On the seventh day

The MBTA rested its brain. This was an obvious case that should have been solved by good manners but needed law.

What makes it interesting is that it preserves the rights of a small Christian sect. Next time the wingnuts who want everyone to be their kind of Christian complain about anti-discrimination law, here's an example of the law helping a Christian.

Of course, they'll think that he's a weird Christian, so this won't convince them. But it might help with conservatives who aren't too far gone.