Accused killer says Oprah, karma and spy satellites told him to do it
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:03 am
Filed under: Australia
Though it’s been used in countless monologues and sitcom punchlines, “the dog told me to do it” is a real thing. It comes from David Berkowitz, aka Son of Sam, who claimed that his neighbor’s dog, Harvey, was possessed by a demon intent on broadcasting murderous thoughts into the tubby killer’s mind. Hearing voices is a hallmark of schizophrenia, among other psychotic disorders, but thankfully it’s the rare sufferer who’s moved to violence.
You may be tempted to throw the racist card at the latest “Animated News” from Taiwan’s NMA.tv. But keep watching, and you’ll find yourself applauding their artists’ handiwork.
And so it continues: The march back through human history toward a rewrite that includes more major players from the Far East. The Chinese already get grudging credit for pasta, fireworks, paper-making and a gazillion other things we take for granted. It makes sense — a thousand years before the Vikings, the Orient was already populated in a relative state of civility. (Hey, I said relative.) When my forebears were still shitting in pigskin bags, ancestral Japanese had no doubt already installed automatic flushing and warmed seats on their buckets.
You know how tobacco companies are giving up on the American market and instead shifting their efforts to developing nations to find their next generation of smokers? The same thing may be happening with abstinence education. Seems that Focus on the Family’s abstinence literature has been adopted by at least one school district in China.
The Daily Mail is reporting that this advertisement is currently appearing in at least one Chinese airport. And just 13 years after her death! Too soon, Chinamen, too soon.
