Hate is a Terrible Thing to Waste

"...hate you for what you have done to society, you boomers have destroyed society with your feminism, your liberalism, your pro-homosexuality, your multiculturalism, etc etc etc. In short, you baby boomers ruined America. Can't you just hurry up and ..... already, so that we young people can start fixing the mess that YOUR generation created?"

                                                                                                --Anonymous

The above comment was left on my blog last August in response to a cartoon character that I had drawn the day before. I didn't print his entire rant and I left some words out because my grand daughter may read this someday, and I don't want her to know that somebody out there wants harm done to her nana. This person, full of intolerance and hate for anything different than his own narrow-minded view of how the world should behave to please him, went off over a silly little cartoon about bugs bugging the daylight out of my grand daughter's precious nana.

Bugging Daylight Outta 

Precious Nana

I must admit I was finger-tied. That's like tongue-tied but I was typing with my fingers at the time.  I wanted to respond but what do you say to someone who hates you and wants you "Gone Granny" because you drew a cartoon of bugs bugging an old lady, which in turn contributed to the ruination of America.

Once I got my fingers to work again, I responded to Mr. Anonymous and I took total responsibility (actually, I did include a few other baby boomers with me; I couldn't do this much damage to society without a little help from my friends.) His concerns were my concerns, I told him, especially the etc etc etc. I lose sleep over those dang things. Etceteras concern me a lot. Have you ever noticed how they have to have the last word, and who are they, really? They make an effort to fit in, yet they hide behind vague notions of things. Yes, they are similar but don't be fooled; they are not the same. They're different and I don't like etceteras that are different. In fact, I hate them and I think they should all be eliminated. The sooner etceteras are gone, the sooner we old people can start fixing the mess they created.

Hate is a terrible thing to waste, but do it anyway. You'll feel so much better for so many reasons, like etc etc etc.