The mouse that scored

By Al Martinez | November  1, 2013 12:05 AM | From LA Observed

There has been much ado on Facebook this week over a comment attributed to Sarah Palin that Jesus Christ had celebrated Easter during his time on Earth, even though just about everyone knows he was crucified three days before what became Easter. Ridicule, animosity, name-calling, hatred and other misanthropic adjectives darkened cyberspace when the story appeared, even after it was disclosed that the report was a fictional piece published in a satirical blog called the Daily Currant.

I, of course, as a registered Weeping Liberal, joined right in using terms like “horse’s rear end” and “stupid baby ass,” my granddaughter’s phrase, to describe the unfortunate woman who, shudder, aspires to become president of the United States someday. Then I checked out the Currant story, discovered its satirical intent and placed the truth on FB, but was told to “rot in hell’ and the animosity continued anyhow and is still sputtering away.

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