uspol, death (1/4)
It is not ghoulish to feel relief when someone is forever removed from the position of power that they used to target you and your loved ones. You are not obliged to be any sadder that they are dead than that they lived.
uspol, death (2/4)
It is normal and human to find yourself imagining that they might taste, just once, the pain and helplessness they took such joy in inflicting--even if you know that it's imaginary, and that to sincerely wish for it would betray your own values.
uspol, death (3/4)
So here's the same toast I gave for another wicked man who died two Februaries ago: His work is done, let it be buried with his name. Pour a shot of cheap whiskey to mark his passing; may it, and he, burn all the way down.
