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Very sad, and yes ironic in the extreme
Saturday we shared the tale of a young woman who made the fatal choice of Baltimore as an ideal place for “building a deeply inclusive culture.”
Since then, there seems to have been a rash of such ironic crimes. Irony is not to be confused with comedy, of course, and we would not want people to laugh at death, which is not funny. Except sometimes . . .
A left-wing Philadelphia journalist who mocked concern over rising crime in Democrat-run cities was shot to death in his home.
Josh Kruger was shot seven times after someone entered his home, shot him at the base of his stairs, and then fled. Kruger ran outside seeking help from his neighbors and collapsed, where police found them after responding to call just before 1:30 a.m. on the 2300 block of Watkins Street.
Kruger, 39, was rushed to the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he died just before 2:15 a.m.
No arrests have been made, and there was no sign of forced entry into the home, according to Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore.
“Either the door was open, or the offender knew how to get the door open,” he said. “We just don’t know yet.”It would be wrong to yield to the temptation of schadenfreude in such a case, but having spent some time delving through Josh Kruger’s social media, I’ve got to say that he seemed utterly obsessed with challenging what he often called “myths” about the danger of urban violence.
Permit me here to share two basic rules for a happy life:
1. Never argue with fools;
and
2. Stay the hell out of Philadelphia.
It seems some people just cannot except reality, for numerous reasons. Among the worst reason to cling, shall we say, bitterly, is because you cannot accept reality, no matter how glaring it is that reality is right, every time. This, I suppose was the case with this young man. He allowed his “feelings” rule over whatever elements of common sense he had.
The Other McCain chalks this all up to CRAZY! And, to be honest, I know that crazy is a state where your mind dismisses reality, and well, Josh was deeply enmeshed in dismissing the reality of violent predators. Sadly, others, usually Liberals, are, like Josh, engaging in Crazy ideological blindness about the reality of predators.
Reality IS real, and no idealistic ideological magic is going to change that.
