We cats recall urging Americans to start behaving as if they were older than 15. But the last time we wrote that, we were speaking of classic American literature — and we never dreamed immaturity in other realms would get quite this bad.
Alas, bad behavior and hissy fits seem to be rampant these last few weeks. Here's a partial* list of offenders:
Journalist Nir Rosen tweeted rude and silly things about the sexual assault that CBS News correspondent Lara Logan endured in Cairo on February 11. Rosen added that he wished it had also happened to CNN's Anderson Cooper. In a matter of hours he lost his fellowship at NYU.
A jackass deputy attorney general in Indiana — again, on Twitter — decided it was very important to tell the world that union protesters there should be shot. "You're damned right I advocate deadly force," he added. He was fired.
A lamebrain cop in Florida decided he was so upset about health care reform and other accomplishments of the Obama Administration that he filed papers declaring himself a "sovereign citizen." Since law enforcement officials act as representatives of state, local or federal government, and since the FBI has begun looking at such self-declared "freemen" as potential domestic terror threats, the cop was summarily shown the door. "I filed those documents without really reading them," he sputtered. "All I wanted to do was make a political statement about the way things are going in this country. I don't think I deserve to lose my job over it."
What do these idiots have in common? They need to grow up already.
We cats are getting to point where we think that Internet privileges should be revoked if you can't demonstrate that you're mature enough to handle them. Tweet no more, fellas. And as for the Florida cop — good God, man. Read stuff before you sign and file it, for heaven's sake.
Even scarier? We'd bet that all three of these guys own guns. We cats HISS.
(*"Partial," because it doesn't contain Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker and his despicable baseball bat.)
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