Individualism and retribution AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 09/21/2010

Individualism and retribution

AN OUTSIDERS VIEW

Ken Fuller

09/21/2010
Whenever I read something in the press to which I might respond in the future, this outsider will copy and paste the piece, saving it in my “Articles” file. (Is this a suicidal anomaly — a newspaper columnist who only reads newspapers on the Internet?) If the column is written fairly soon, it may have to take its place in a queue, behind pieces already awaiting the weekly e-mail to the Tribune. (And what a comfortable feeling it is to have several columns in reserve!)

Sometimes, a copied and pasted piece will, frankly, be forgotten, and by the time I remember it the topic will have become outdated. Then there is the odd occasion when I am struck by something another columnist has written but am unsure precisely what it’s saying to me. On these occasions — and this is one of them — the piece may lay in the file for a few weeks before I take another look at it.

On Aug. 4, Ma. Ceres Doyo had this to say in her Inquirer column: “A wicked smile forms on my lips and a nasty glint appears in my eyes whenever there’s news of car thieves and carjackers, and their ilk — lowlifes from hell — getting mowed down in a bloody gun battle with law enforcers. I feel like shouting, ‘And here’s a few more for your skulls, for the car you stole from me.’”... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100921com5.html