Everything that happens on this speck of dust relates to everything else in ways we can only begin to comprehend.

Strong opinions about any other human being on the planet are personally relevant to everyone and need to be given their proper context.

You want to make a big ugly deal about an artist who executes a work of performance art right under your frothing little nose and your gnashing little teeth, and I would like everyone to just TRY to see who it is that's really the ugly one here.

Wake the fek up, people.

Outing a cousin who was six and who was humiliated by the experience? If that's true I don't want hear about it because, absent my place in law enforcement or the legal profession, I don't believe that the issue is more relevant than the utter ignorance with which human beings treat other human beings.

Do you REALLY believe that ANY of this crap happens in a vacuum? It just starts up all over again because everyone and everything is connected with every one and every thing else.

Do you think that your PROVEN piss-poor capacity to successfully pass judgment on ANY situation that happens on this planet qualifies you to determine that your judgment is magically exempt from being classified with all of the ooze out of which this garbage rises?

Then, why is it YOU who is telling ME to shut up?

Why are you so afraid to admit that being human crosses boundaries at places you only THINK you have the good taste not to tread on, or cross?

If your human judgment is so stellar in its capacity to provide and promote the common good, then why the hell are we poised at the brink of utter cultural and environmental destruction while you waste precious oxygen telling someone who can think and process circles around your dimly lit awareness to shut up?

If that's the best that YOU can do, then no wonder this country is as f*d up as it is.

You smirk at me like chimps because I seem to be different; I hang my head and cry at you because you're all the same.

Tragically, the same.

And that's where it ends and that's what's relevant.

Moron.

...you've ruined my opinion of the person AND now the artist.

So I guess that means that we should all be devoid of compassion for someone who's an asshole and proud to be one. Like he'd have a choice. Like you would.

Hurting people is easy. Always has been. Always will be. It is the way of cowards.

To be great, learn to heal and help others.

To obtain 24 years of recovery from substance abuse requires an enormous amount of effort, personal change and, yup, learning to help and heal other people.

I have seen precious little healing perspective on this topic thus far and it is not only pathetic, it is tragic.

People need to own their own defects of character and stop blaming other people for thoughts and actions that they are choosing to indulge.

Our country is falling the fek apart and everyone wants to play pin the tail on the recovering jackass. Yeah, let's play into Eric's trauma and scapegoat the s*t out of him. He's begging us to do it to him, so let's forget about adult responsibility and pretend we're back in middle school on the playground at recess.

Learn the lesson, express gratitude for the opportunity to learn something about yourself that you didn't know before and could well save you some grief later on, and move on to what's important.

I don't care if this guy marries a sheep at this point. I still think he's a talented artist and I still believe that he's done more to help people in his life than hurt them.