The Birds

Sometimes you just can't help it.

You're sitting on the couch and you glance at your phone and your social media feed, and you see something so mind bendingly stupid that your thumbs take on a mind of their own. And before you know it….you are right where the stupids want you. Alone in their comment thread, armed only with facts and reason. You don't stand a chance. You are suddenly picked apart like that kid in Hitchcock's "The Birds" who tripped while running away. And you get it with both barrels. The mutant sentence construction that seems driven by crushed and snorted adderall….and every other word misspelled. Both of these splayed across a virtual graffiti wall like a badge of anti-intellectual honor.