Hyper Gumbo » death http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com Norms are strange Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:51:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Karen Hulley, Nurse of Hate? http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/953 http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/953#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:52:13 +0000 Don http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/?p=953 A Seattle jury gave Karen Hulley a pass on her mistreatment of a gay couple.  From her own lawyer’s closing statements, it sounds like a clear cut case of discrimination, validated by a pathetic bunch of homophobic jurors.  If you were on that jury, you should be just as ashamed of yourself as the bigot Karen Hulley.  You let your personal small minded hate rule you, and you are a lesser person for it.  I hope someday you get treated with the love and respect you denied others, and that it opens your mind to just how terrible you have behaved.  If you have Karen Hulley for a nurse, I would worry about your safety.  Someone willing to put her own hate above the care of a dieing patient isn’t someone you should trust your life to.  I wouldn’t trust Karen Hulley with a bag of shit.

]]> http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/953/feed 0 Remembering Michael http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/508 http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/508#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:01:19 +0000 Don http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/508 A tortured and troubled life. I can remember a time when preachers used to use him as a role model. I was once told a story about him appearing somewhere with the Jackson 5 as a teenager, and some music bigwig offered him money for sex. He turned it down, and the guy says something about how it’d be different if only he were a woman, and Michael reportedly replied that he was saving himself for marriage. Then the Pepsi fire happened, and he was never really the same.
Frankly, I’m surprised he lasted as long as he did, in a world where, from the age of 8, he was surrounded by people who saw him as a golden goose, to be fattened and flattered. The golden goose is dead, long live the golden eggs he has laid.

As I stream the Jackson Family tribute playlist, I can’t help but wonder who’s going to make out from the cash windfall that Michael nostalgia will bring. Maybe we could build the statue from HIStory as an economic booster program.

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