Protester immolation virtually unnoticed (What if you set yourself on fire for Iraq & nobody cared?)

Associated Press ^ | 11/27/06

[wideawake]

If someone actually bothers to join Mensa, it is a pretty good indicator that they are crazy, a loser or both.

[Izzy Dunne]

Speaking of "pi to a thousand places", it sounds like this guy was too White And Nerdy.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

It must be similar to "performance art".

[trebb]

Interesting that a person who doesn't believe something can be worth dieing for can decide to die to stress the point. If the Dims and other cut-n-runners in government decide to do the same, I might give them credit for their opinions.

[dead]

He was an alcoholic who collected fossils, glass eyes, light bulbs and snare drums.

I feel sorry for the poor bastard that’s going to be willed his collections.

“What the hell am I supposed to do with glass eyes and lightbulbs?! Can’t I just throw them out?”
“No dear, they were very important to our dear friend Crispy and we have to pretend we value them for at least a year or two.”
“Maybe I could incinerate them to protest some crap, like animal testing or abortion restrictions or freaking tree cutting or something…”
“I don’t think glass eyes burn…ewwwwwwww It's looking at me!”

[USMCWife6869]

"Without fear I go now to God," Last time I checked, God kind of frowned on suicide.

[mad puppy]

"He was an alcoholic who collected fossils, glass eyes, light bulbs and snare drums."

Glass eyes?

That has got to be a seriously painful way to go. Anyway, suicide is a very selfish thing. Quite the legacy he just passed on to his kids. The ultimate temper-tamtrum from a child when the world doesn't do what he wants.

[NeoCaveman]

Burn baby burn.

[Izzy Dunne]

If you build a man a fire, you keep him warm for a day.

If you set a man on fire, you keep him warm for the rest of his life.

[SmithL]

Just another leftie making an ash of himself in public.

[ConservativeMind]

Senselessness.

It follows with the liberal mindset. I'm surprised more aren't doing this.

[DOGEY]

Ritscher wrote in the last sentence of his suicide note. "Your future is what you will choose today".

I choose marshmallows on a long stick.

[Thombo2]

Notice the AP links this imbicilic act to Budhists who burned themselves up protesting the VN war?The undeclared intent?Link Iraq to VN.More agit-prop from the msm.Hate to sound cold,but this guy wasn't a martyr.He was a f@#kin loser.

[HIDEK6]

If someone actually bothers to join Mensa,

I think that paying someone else to declare you smart is so stupid that it should disqualify Mensa from considering you for membership.

[Mamzelle]

I'm having trouble figuring out who is father and son in this article--doesn't it say his dad is only 35?

[NeoCaveman]

The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage.

Nah, Martyrdom now involves attempting to kill infidels.

[wideawake]

Good point. A microtonal serialist should view pi as an infinite playground.

Of course, I have to point out that the journalist calls pi an "infinite number" when pi is not infinity - it is simply an irrational real constant.

[SteveMcKing]

I count at least eight men in that picture who so loved peace as to become police officers - trained and disciplined men of law and order.

Also in that photo is the attention-whore. The one whom the Left credits with inspiration and special knowledge that the other eight lack.

[Mo1]

But Ritscher's family disagrees about whether he had severe mental problems.

In a statement, Ritscher's parents and siblings called him an intellectually gifted man who suffered from bouts of depression. They stopped short of saying he'd ever received a clinical diagnosis of mental illness.

Guess it never dawned on them that depression is a mental problem

[ClaudiusI]

Yeah, blame Bush for completely wasting your life and not having a real career.