The zombie connection

[hermine_93]

So I was talking about those groups of scared white people among the Wal-Mart proletariat who were stockpiling guns because "you just never know what will happen--even a zombie attack, haw, haw."

And then I got worried about it because these are the same people that Glenn Beck et al are telling to go out and die with honor, and "water the tree of

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[count_01]

Hilarious that his guest was Max Brooks, author of the Zombie Survival Guide. Clearly, the most appropriate expert on the subject.

[hermine_93]

it was a bit unsettling, though, that Olbermann's story about Republicans referring to Democrats as "zombies" was on the same day as my blog entry on having a bad feeling about wing nuts using "zombie preparedness" as a sort of innocuous-sounding way of talking about the same kind of survivalist, apocalyptic, gun-stockpiling behavior that they have been doing since all bout the advent of the atom bomb.
I like zombies as much as the next gal, but that was kind of creepy.
Take another look at my entry from the 25th and you will see what I mean. I was talking about the potential for a scary confluence of events and what Olbermann is talking about sounds a lot like something that could be (or, more likely, become in some survivalist's twisted mental world) the connection that could trigger such a confluence.
Maybe it's just me, but crazy people with guns make me uneasy in the first place and the coincidence with my hunch and the news worries me.

[count_01]

It's not so much that crazy people with guns should worry you; it's that they are crazy. The "with guns" part is actually what gets a lot of them noticed by the law and pacified before they do something really nutso.

[hermine_93]

That strikes me as a bit of a stretch.