Credit where due, and then some

[ewmon]

I'm happy to give credit due for virtue and valor to Newark Mayor Cory Booker who rushed into a burning house and led a woman inside to safety. Plus, the tweets about him are funny. Anyone seen any others?

• Superman Wears "Cory Booker" Pajamas.
  
• Booker claims he was nowhere near the N. Korean long-range missile that broke apart after launch. I don't believe him.
  
• Ghosts sit around the campfire and tell Cory Booker Stories.
  
• When Chuck Norris has nightmares, Cory Booker turns on the light & sits with him until he falls back.
  
• Cory Booker takes his martini shaken, not stirred.
  
• After the incident, Smoke was treated for Cory Booker exposure.
  

[md65536]

Superman Wears "Cory Booker" Pajamas.

[etc]

I wonder if any of the other unknown heroes who ever risked their own lives to save another secretly wish they were mayors of a big city. Then they too could be famous for saving a life.

 

"Sure you saved a mom and her child from a burning building, and then you went back in for the cat, and then you went back in again for the cat's favorite toy, but did you do it all WHILE CARRYING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF OVERSEEING THE BUDGET OF A LARGE MUNICIPALITY? If no, then who cares!"

[ewmon]

... and then you went back in again for the cat's favorite toy, ...

See, science-type people do have a sense of humor.

 

I think partly it's a relief to people that not all politicians are some sleazebag stereotype, partly an affirmation that the people elected someone of good character, and partly that people find spontaneous acts of courage fascinating.

 

I think there's a curiosity about celebrities and other famous people.

 

But just recently there was the boy who leaped into action and saved a kids on a bus, on a Monday morning, no less.

 

Then there was the

who saved 100-plus people.

 

I tink it refreshing to know that life is full of heroism. There is

who couldn't do nothing any longer. And no one will forget the

who stopped a column of tanks.