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May 28, 2010

It's a small, small world

Back in February of 2005 I wrote Goin' off the rails on the Kool Aid Express about a wingnut I worked with at the time and how delusional some of his dittohead "factoids" were.

So here I was yesterday catching up on the days news after getting home from school. I followed a link from my Yahoo homepage to a piece at The Oregonian's website about some guy who'd been arrested after shooting at a couple of I-Pod thiefs in Gresham this past Tuesday.

Surprise, surprise! It was the same wingnut I used to work with. Roger Witter.

He's actually a nice guy and a gifted artist. There are at least two National Forest Service visitor centers/field museums that prominantly feature his exceptionally realistic paintings - one in Guam and one near John Day, Oregon. From a distance you'd swear they were huge prints from photographs.

But I was not the least bit surprised that he had a concealed-carry permit or that he hadn't exhibited any greater judgement in how he used it than he had exhibited back in 2005 with respect to some of the loony "factoids" he'd bought at face value from Limbaugh and whomever else he listened to.

Posted by Kevin at May 28, 2010 12:32 PM