The Sportsman and the Squirrel - Ambrose Bierce

A Sportsman who had wounded a Squirrel, which was making desperate efforts to drag itself away, ran after it with a stick, exclaiming:

“Poor thing! I will put it out of its misery.”

At that moment the Squirrel stopped from exhaustion, and looking up at its enemy, said:

“I don’t venture to doubt the sincerity of your compassion, though it comes rather late, but you seem to lack the faculty of observation. Do you not perceive by my actions that the dearest wish of my heart is to continue in my misery?”

At this exposure of his hypocrisy, the Sportsman was so overcome with shame and remorse that he would not strike the Squirrel, but pointing it out to his dog, walked thoughtfully away.

indeed dalas verdugo
i too often feel the need
to have my final breaths
out of harms way while
watching Keanu Reeves in
"speed."
My love for Sandra Bullock
gives structual damage to my heart.

and god said "Do you have any idea how complicated your circulatory system is?"

nice video by the way i just felt like i needed to insert that. like the American Beauty trash bag in the wind thing.

macro!

Indeed!!!!!!!!!! YOu will have fruit in your back!

Yeah. They're pretty gross. Like most insects, I can't stand them.

Great recommendation. I second it.

Horrifying, I'll check it out on my most self-deprecating days.

yup!

(it was the show at The Tank a few weeks ago)

Yeah, in the toilet.