arguments should be well-formed and logical

If your aren’t going to harvest the corn what do you care if the deer and the raccoons take it before it is ripe? I don’t remember the pheasant story, why don’t you run that one by me again?

I know you don’t watch Fox news, and the fact is I don’t watch it much anymore either. It’s just the same thing over and over again. It’s not even fun to rebut their arguments. But then I guess their stuff goes back and forth between the politicians and the columnists and whatever, so that it is all the same thing. The left does that too, somebody thinks up some argument or phrase that they think is pretty cool, and then they are all saying it.

Actually what Bill O’Reilly and that ex-mayor of New York were saying was something like well what about all the black on crime? Which was a little different from what you were saying, but it sounded close to me. But that argument doesn’t make any sense. What does black on black crime have to do with blacks getting shot by white policemen? Does it mean that as long as so many blacks are killed by other blacks, it’s okay for white cops to pick off a few? Should we wait until there was less black on black crime before we became upset by white cops shooting black people?

I suppose buried in there is some kind of argument that they shouldn’t be demonstrating, when they could be spending their time fighting black on black crime (and that is a whole bogus argument used in politics all the time, why are we talking about this problem when there is a whole other problem that is even bigger, like people can’t do more than one thing at a time.). Also that is like the argument about why doesn’t Pedro stay in Mexico and fix their corrupt government instead of jumping the border. Like Pedro can do anything about the government. Why don’t we white people do something about all those hedge fund and banker thieves?

But on the narrow issue of demonstrations, I keep thinking why aren’t they going door to door and registering their people to vote, and getting out that vote on election day? But the thing is, demonstrating is kind of fun, and it only takes up a few nights and you feel so good about yourself for having spoken those brave words. But registering people is slow work and not much fun at all.

It is a mystery to me why Ferguson became such a big deal. Stuff like that happens here every couple of months. The cops say one thing, the witnesses say another and actually maybe there are some demonstrations, but they are strictly local and don’t last more than a day or two. It may be something like boiling water where the tension just builds and builds and then it comes to a boil.

I was going to say something about those torture reports, but I am almost out of time. Okay then a couple short sentences. Remember how they told us in school how the United States of America does not torture and we don’t lock up people indefinitely without giving them a trial, and it gave us a little pride, we were a little better than other countries. And now that is all out the window, now we do both, and it doesn’t bother us a bit.