Courage, Courage Where Did It Go?
The shallow boy and girl reporters at the failing Los Angeles Times are too incourageous to tell you. I will. Three Councilmembers, Mr. Wesson, Mr. Parks and Mr. Perry willing prisoners to their cheap emotions voted yesterday to let Mr. Pierce keep his $2.7 million in blood money because he is black and they are black. Not one drop of reasoning was utilized by any of the three. In the tradition of the worst politicians ever elected by uninformed voters, the three of them unabashedly played to the idiot crowd. If they were children, their mothers would have spanked them when they came home. Mr. Parks needs a tall telephone pole to catalogue every niche of failure in his last two jobs. Ms. Perry should join fellow Councilmember Ms. Hahn when Ditzy Daisy Mae returns to her old job, straightening out paper clips in the dark. With a much heavier heart do I criticize Mr. Wesson, of whom I am quite fond. He could not have blown the case more spectacularly if he had slugged a cop. Mr. Wesson muddied his reputation for the foreseeable future with his thoughtless, mechanical me-too vote.
Postscript
A proper outcome would be for the Six Slugs on the City Council to attend a picnic I am throwing. I will bring the dog food. And I shall hire a cameraman to record each Slug scooping one spoonful of dog food out of his own, personalized can.
