A Key West bookstore was the first place I ever saw the complete works of V.I. Lenin, so I always mistakenly assumed the place was a hive of hippie leftism dressed up in an alcoholic coma, but I guess I should have realized that no one was buying for a reason. Seriously, I'd like it to be a funny snarky comment that some sad fuck topped himself because Obama won re-election, but I have to wonder if some mental illness was present. Either that or this man was, in one of the gay-friendliest places I can think of, so self-loathing that he was thinking of becoming a Scientologist, cause they cured Tom Cruise, right?
A Key West man who told his partner that "if Barack gets re-elected, I'm not going to be around" was found dead on Nov. 8, with the words "F--- Obama!" scrawled on his will and two empty prescription bottles nearby. The rest is here
Further research (i.e., reading the Huff Po, which quotes Yglesias at Slate, has informed me that under the Affordable Care Act, tanning salons are newly burdened with a 10% excise tax, which may explain some of the venom. Some.
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