So I'm enjoying a Twitter session a couple weeks ago, relaxing in my favorite chair, simultaneously watching TV.
That way I'll have more tweet fodder than even I know what to do with.
Don't all tweeps worth their salt approach it thus?
So as to stay all current, cutting edge, relevant, dynamic, et cetera?
At any rate I'm very absorbed, waxing loquacious on first one topic and then another, when lo and behold I get a mention.
Meaning, someone responded to one of my many pithy tweets which are uniformly packed with the wit, wisdom, snark and sarcasm my public have come to expect.
Now, if you've ever opined much on the Internet, you know how quickly and easily one can misunderstand and be misunderstood.
I'm used to it.
Even so, the reply I received took me aback for several seconds.
At first glance it was difficult for me to believe anyone in their right mind could take umbrage at my tweet.
This is what I said:
Everybody's all up in arms about Casey the babykiller's release but thousands of unborn children die each day & nobody turns a hair.
I was retweeted by @cessna1967, @ConniePrays, @Audgapanaudge, @00_jackie, @BadCat_CA_2, @sawlawn, and a few others whose links I cannot provide because they cuss.
They got me and clearly agreed. Good people.
I don't suppose anyone besides Casey Anthony and her parents will ever really know how Caylee met her tragic demise.
Well ... them and God. He welcomed Caylee with open arms and helped her to lay her little burden down.
He knows.
All I know is that I'm sick to death of hearing about it. I am beyond bored with the sordid excuses and the overweening hype and the nauseating overkill, pardon the expression.
Casey, go away already. Go ahead and do whatever it is you're going to do. Personally I hope the first thing you do is get sterilized.
No more babies for you, 'k? There's a creepy twisted little murderess.
But back to my Casey-related Twitter mention.
It went like this:
Not everybody. Some think it's non of our business and the family needs privacy. Can't imagine what they r going thru
????
Sorry but I beg to differ, and I said so.
I answered:
Nor can I imagine what they're going thru. I've never killed a child or covered up the death of a child.
Thinking that was not a bad comeback, I figured we were done.
Until I thought of something else.
To wit:
Also, taxpayers helped pay for her defense. I'd say that makes it our business, although I myself have heard enough.
Then I closed my laptop. A few days went by before I logged back on to Twitter.
I checked my mentions and saw I had a reply from Casey's buddy.
His tweet to me contained, not a retort, rejoinder, or rebuke, but only a link containing the term caseyresearch.
Oh no, I thought. This guy is in the tank for Casey Anthony and he's trying to convince me of her innocence! I don't have time for this nonsense.
But he wasn't. Turns out he's good people too. VERY good people.
Click here to see what he sent me.
Booyah!
I like it. I fail to see the connection to Casey Anthony but I like it very much indeed.
And Bob's your uncle, I got me a new and very inspiring laptop desktop background.
And I wanted to share it with you.
Take! Use! Disseminate! Distribute! Encourage others to do the same!
A picture is worth a thousand words.
And if you wish to express gratitude, don't thank me. Thank the fine conservative gentleman known on Twitter as @WmCraigBarnard.
He's a little to the left of me concerning Casey Anthony, but we'll forgive him just this once.