The LA Times has the video that Jared Loughner made and posted to youtube, causing administration officials at Pima College to almost immediately expel him.
The whole thing is just one long run-on rambling bit of incoherence- the last time I saw manic word salad like this it was from people at a Dead show. It’s really just creepy and insane, and the only thing that could have made it weirder was Laurie Anderson singing in the background. Ironically, he and Sarah Palin seem to have the same level of understanding regarding the 1st Amendment.
And I do think we may finally have discovered who produced all the 2008 Mike Gravel youtube videos.
Punchy
Was he requesting the lotion be put in the basket?
kdaug
“Oh, Super-Man, ah ah ah ah ah ah ah…”
KG
@Punchy: it puts the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again?
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
My gf and I were comparing the Loughner video to some emails from her schizophrenic brother. Strange that the grammar and syntax of schizophrenic people should be so consistent. They could be from the same guy.
Years ago, a local fella I knew with schizophrenia sat down with some friends and myself at a coffee shop and, whilst on his meds, did the entire NYT crossword puzzle before our very eyes. He had a full ride engineering scholarship to the U of I. Last time I saw him, off his meds, he was on the street and gaunt. He looked right through me. Didn’t recognize me at all. Tragic.
joeyess
In Jared’s distant world, words fail.
After watching that video words fail me as well.
What was that?
trollhattan
Glocks and g-strings and bears, oh my.
I see people not unlike this sick f*ck most days I ride light rail. So far, they’ve (mostly) been unarmed, so far as I know. Looser gun laws would help correct that.
I’m watching “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” right now and it’s putting me into my dark place. I need some “Three Stooges” stat!
General Stuck
Well, I could have gotten thru the evening without listening to that weird ass shit.
Punchy
Is it poor blogsmanship to wish significant bodily harm on ARodg tomorrow, such that they lose the game?
Ditto for Worthlessberger, especially if it’s by the hands of The Non-Murderer-although-Cole-Cant-Remember-This.
kdaug
These people will be with us always. Have been since the beginning, and even with the best therapy, will continue to be so long as treatment is voluntary. (And involuntary treatment is a kettle of fish I’m not getting into here).
But what, short of a general “If you know a guy/girl who acts crazy…” public service campaign are the better ideas for dealing with this?
They’ve always been with us. Most are not dangerous, just weird.
At what point do we… well, what should we do?
kd bart
Still better than a Michael Bay film.
Hunter Gathers
Where I stop and turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again
Yeah, yeah, yeah
goblue72
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): If treating mental illness in this country were given the same priority as finding the cure for cancer, I just can’t help but feel like this shooting never would have happened. Instead of being just tossed to the curb by a local community college not wanting to deal with a problem, he’d be in supervised treatment.
But since the illness of mental illness is inside the brain and thus in its way invisible, people like this who are truly sick wind up wandering the streets. And in some cases, with guns.
Or maybe its just been a long week of working in the Tenderloin passing schizophrenics talking to themselves on the street corner every day on my way to work.
KG
I’m going to hold off on watching the video, based on these comments.
But I’ve been thinking about where we as a nation are politically. The last 15 years have been simply crazy, if you stop and actually think about it. Really, if you were to wake up tomorrow in 1996, and told someone that by the year 2011 the following things would happen:
1. the sitting President of the United States would be impeached by the House but not removed by the Senate
2. someone would win the presidency by winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote
3. that terrorists would hijack 4 planes, on the same day, fly two into the WTC, another into the Pentagon, and the fourth would be taken down by passengers
4. we would go to war in Afghanistan for ten years
5. we would also go to war with Iraq, again
6. the sitting governor of California would be recalled and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger
7. we would elect the first black president, and it wouldn’t be Colin Powell
8. a woman would be elected Speaker of the House
9. there would be a real estate bubble followed by a crash that would threaten to take down the entire (global) economy due to bad mortgages
What would the reaction be? The thought that one or two of these things would have happened would be shocking. But all of them? That’s a lot of stuff to go down, some of it symbolic, some of it not so much. We live in interesting times, things are changing at a breakneck speed. Some people are not handling it well, because some people aren’t good with any amount of change, but this is change on a grand scale.
The Dangerman
Heard tonight that the Innocent that picked up the gun almost wasted Loughner; of course, he likely would have, in turn, got popped by the Dude that was coming out of Walgreen’s with the safety off. It could have become a Spaghetti Western.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@goblue72:
It’s Reagan’s legacy, if I recall. Wasn’t he behind shutting all those assylums in the 80s? Or is that a state level thing?
Someone here will know, I suspect
kindness
John, did you have fun at the Dead show though?
General Stuck
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
Yes, he was. Those were long term mostly federal facilities. In their heyday, they served the chronic mentally ill, and were also the only real treatment for alcoholism and hard drug addiction, like heroin.
jwb
@KG: It’s almost like when the Berlin wall fell, we lost our cultural superego and unleashed our cultural id.
KG
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): it was the Courts actually. The Supreme Court held in O’Connor v Donaldson (1975) that states could not confine citizens to an institution (or similar) without treatment if they were non-dangerous and capable of living by themselves, or with the aid of responsible family or friends. There were several other cases that followed, see here
kdaug
@KG: I hear ya. Has it ever been like this before in human history?
And I feel it in both directions – I’m working on a WebGL app that I can’t release because the browsers are in beta and the code isn’t finalized.
So at once, things are moving too fast, and not fast enough.
KG
@jwb: that’s a good way of saying it. Honestly though, I think history has overwhelmed a lot of people.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@KG:
Wiki:
Hmm. That gives one pause.
Martin
Cool. Now our galtian overlords are getting in on the Tea Party action.
Who knew the invisible hand of the market was actually palming a firearm?
Ozymandias, King of Ants
@kd bart: FTW!
freelancer
Madness. Utter madness.
Drouse
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): They have a practical reason for that. If it was easier the families of their converts could yank them back and have them deprogrammed. There is a reason that most of the world considers them a cult.
Triassic Sands
He was suspended because of this video?
There has to more to it that just that. I can imagine rounding up the producer/director of this cinematic gem and sending him for psychiatric evaluation (especially since there had already been trouble with him), but I’m not sure what the grounds for suspension would be. Since when was it a punishable offense to make an incoherent home movie?
If school officials were worried that he might be a threat, what effect did they think suspending him would have?
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Martin:
Funny how stuff like that can boomerang back on you, your publicly posted execution list.
piratedan
@jwb:
Not sure if it was the Berlin Wall or rather that it was Watergate….
Those Republican rookies took a look around and watched their political temple get desecrated, their idol Nixon, humiliated, impeached, his legacy lost. All of the inner circle either corrupt, stupid or both. The guys just out on the fringe, like Ailes, Cheney and Rumsfeld regrouped and made a game plan that it would never happen again on their watch. Since that Nixon Administration was brought down we’ve seen the following:
marginilazation of the fourth estate
Republicans controlling the media message
Look at what happened to every Democratic presidency that took place afterwards…
Carter – done in by our constant propping up of repressive fascist states when Iran fell and frankly he wasn’t ready to deal with the realpolitik mess that Nixon and Ford had left behind.
Clinton – impeached for being a horndog essentially, while I’m not fond of him getting a hummer out of wedlock its certainly not the same as the systematic hamstringing of a rival political party.
a cultural change in American society, no longer was it good enough to make a modest profit and slowly make your way up the corporate ladder or build your own business, everybody gor selfish, I want mine NOW, screw the next guy. Evidenced by Reagan essentially opening up the regulatory candy store and sending everyone home and whatever controls that kept big business playing fair were now open to negotiation.
Who was standing in the wings ready to get theirs back? The old school Nixon choir who took gleeful pleasure in getting the Bushies elected and controlling them and the country as they saw fit.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Drouse:
Ah, yes. That makes good sense.
If Scientologists are doing it, I assume it’s sinister. They never disappoint.
trollhattan
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
You’re right, he did so as governor under the rubric of “Least restrictive environment.” When one considers what proportion of the homeless and prison populations are mentally ill, we’re still dealing with St. Ronnie’s decisions of four decades ago.
Mnemosyne
@Martin:
Ten years ago, three meat inspectors were murdered by the owner of the sausage factory that they were inspecting after finding serious violations the previous year. Reading the guy’s statements, it sounds like he was a teabagger before his time.
So, no, it’s not unheard of for the overlords to take matters into their own hands.
Mnemosyne
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
When your religion’s founder was a paranoid schizophrenic who was forced into mental hospitals several times, you’re going to get some very weird beliefs about psychiatry inserted into your religion.
freelancer
We are pattern-seeking creatures. Our brains are forged by natural selection to seek out patterns and from them, find justifications for the everyday phenomenons about reality that rattle our assumptions.
The easiest proof of this is found in pareidolia, the chaos that, within which, we see “obvious” signs. Our internal facial recognition software seeing religious artifacts within everyday nonsense, Virgin Mary in a slice of toast, for just one of hundreds of examples.
Loughner’s madness came from a place of being oppressed. He felt held back, pushed down, felt any authority above him to be to blame for all the rest of the world’s ills. He latched on to heroic underdog memes, revolutionaries like the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution were like himself, those being continually betrayed by the world as he perceived it. Academia ’cause they didn’t know about his perfect conception of “grammar”, Corporate America ’cause they kept finding reasons to fire him, and for whatever reason, politics. He latched on to this utopian, delusional ideal of what the Constitution is, and found modern day “Democrat” politician Abby Giffords the perfect villain to rise up and try to defeat.
Loughner was pro-grammar, as in pro-English grammar because he felt the use of language was a medium through which effective mind control was channeled and thus true power was wielded.
Loughner was pro-life, to the extent that he was disgusted by a classmates poem about abortion, and in his words we saw his vehemence and passion with regard to the policy.
Loughner seemed to find everything subject to a veto if it were not revised to genuine currency. The fiat currency system had been saved in place of a fiscal collapse that may have seen some revision. Bush enacted TARP, but Obama and the Democrats have been the ones perceived to have avoided such a collapse and are proudly claiming credit as having “saved” the economy in its current state. They would be the ones to blame in the construct of such illogic.
Jared Loughner is truly sick. He is beyond the scope of what any of us, here would deem to be “sane.” But is there any reason to doubt why, in his troubled state, he turned his wrath and chaos, and focused it on those, far, wide, and local, that have been considered the enemies of “conservatism”?
General Stuck
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
Actually, the movement to move away from long term mental health services began in the 60’s, and as someone pointed out, was bolstered by various court decisions, and California led the way to transition these folks to community centers and the like, which was a complete failure. but the biggest cuts that Reagan instituted in the early 80’s for social services really finished the process by largely starving the State Hospital system of federal subsidy. There were some fed facilities too, like the old Narcotics Farm in Lexington, Ky, which was what I was speaking of in my earlier comment.
asiangrrlMN
@Triassic Sands: Not just the video. That was the icing on the cake. He had five run-ins with campus police. Here’s a link to CBS with more info.
By the way, stolen from Rumproast, who got it from a tweet by Chris Robinson
That’s perfect.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@trollhattan:
I was young at the time but I do remember the homeless and crazy population bursting onto the highways & streets suddenly in the 80s.
Barb (formerly Gex)
@Punchy: I thought his nickname was Rapelisburger.
Martin
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Earlier. NYC was drowning in the mentally ill in the 70s.
Ruckus
There were state court decisions that led to that as well. During the 70’s I was working as a mental health counselor in CA and getting someone committed involuntarily became much more difficult. IIRC this stemmed from a case about the then normal activity of police to arrest people and place them in jail for 3 days, allowing them to sober up, get cleaned up and minimal medical attention. Paddy wagons. Placing someone on a 3 day hold prior was easy. But that all changed. I recall the case was called the sundowner but I find no record so maybe IFOS.
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
Hmm. That gives one pause.
Not if you know someone in their clutches.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Mnemosyne: Not to mention Battlefield Earth.
@General Stuck: I am thinking this was given traction by One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s nest? Or inspired Kesey to write it in the first place?
Ruckus
@Drouse:
Because they are.
freelancer
“Let’s say ‘Goodnight’ to everybody.”
Goodnight, Moon.
Goodnight, stars.
Goodnight, Po-Po’s
Goodnight, grifters.
Goodnight, hoppers.
Goodnight, bankstas.
Goodnight, wingnuts.
Goodnight, heroes.
Goodnight, trolls.
Goodnight, bloggers.
Goodnight, hacks.
Goodnight commenters.
Goodnight to one, and all.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Ruckus: Very interesting. My meaning was that if the Scientologists are fer it, it’s probable cause to be agin it.
@Martin: Yikes! Bellvue was the iconic assylum in NYC, is that right? Crazy criminals were always being taken to Bellvue on Barney Miller (the wellspring of my knowledge of 70s NYC)
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@efgoldman: damn! Is there anything th BJ commentariat isn’t knowledgeable about. Thanks.
cbear
It’s funny, but when I first saw this guy’s name I immediately thought of “Rhesus”.
Maybe because his name and “rhesus” are somewhat alliterative or maybe because he’s just another shit slinging gooper monkey. I dunno.
gilintx
Watching that, I genuinely felt sorry for the guy. What the hell was he talking about? He got a B for 1st amendment expression? All teachers repress your 1st amendment rights? A guy who said “what?” to him on the stairs also denied him him rights under the 1st amendment? I can’t put him into any camp other than the unwell. It’s frankly sad.
asiangrrlMN
@cbear: Ha! I like it. I kept seeing Prius.
Yutsano
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): And ironically enough is also the name of the rich white flight suburb of Seattle. A factoid that gives me mad giggles to no end.
@asiangrrlMN: Three. Day. Weekend. Nuff said. And the weather is holding out for me to actually drive over the mountains to my parents’ house. So I might just get the duck outta Dodge. How you hon?
Ruckus
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
I’d change probable cause to absolute cause but yea.
moe99
@kindness: Kindness, I don’t think John ever attended a Dead show.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Not bad. You making the trip with Lexie again? I thought she hadn’t forgiven you for last time. Are you over your cold?
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Totally over the cold fortunately. And Lexie will be staying at the condo this trip. Though I shudder to think of the condition it will be in upon my return.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Awwwww. Poor Lexie. Yeah, she’s gonna wreak havoc while you’re gone. Glad you’re feeling better!
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Yutsano: yes. I used to travel thru Bellvue on my way to teach guitar to even further flung whitey flighties in Issaqua. I lived in Ballard in the mid ’00s
I visited some friends in seattle over T-giving. Maybe you saw me? I am a white dude with thick plastic nerd glasses and a beard. Oh, and I also tend to dress in layers. And play the guitar.
Yutsano
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
That’s about a third of the white male populace in Seattle. So that’s kind of a needle/haystack sort of challenge there. But if I did see you I think I waved. Especially if you joined the Tuesday protestors in front of the Federal Building downtown.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@yutsano: hee hee! I know. The things that mark me as an untamed bohemian commie here in downstate Lincolnland make just one more of the faceless herd in Process City.
AAA Bonds
That Malkin/Politifact bit reminded me just how stupid Malkin really is. It’s astounding that someone gets to adulthood thinking it makes sense to offer “B, thus A” as a complete argument. It’s like one of Loughner’s YouTube videos. Granting her every dubious claim of fact, she offers the equivalent of: “On Monday I always wake up in the morning. I woke up this morning, thus, it must be Monday.”
Yutsano
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): I’m trying to think of what would possibly cause a second glance here (gwangung could probably think of something) as I’ve seen women in full chadors get on the bus and no one bat an eye. I could have not been paying attention however.
AAA Bonds
@General Stuck:
Here’s something sick: one of the major effects of Reagan’s reign was that he cut almost all funding for program evaluation. So not only did he destroy the mental health system in this country, he covered his tracks by destroying the systems that would have reported on the effects. We’re just now recovering from both.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Nekkitude?
@Yutsano: I dance naked in snow. Don’t talk to ME about chilly!
Signed, asianotterMN (I’m retiring from the human race).
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I think that would depend upon what part of town you’re in. Plus we get a wee bit chilly for things like that.
Random User Name
@Triassic Sands:
Someone posted the Pima County Community College campus police incident reports on Loughner online, here. That video was apparently the icing on the cake.
I think the person who was walking by in the beginning of the video where Loughner says “Thanks for the B” was one of his instructors.
.
Ailuridae
@Martin:
That’s not really fair. McCrudden is a known fucking nut.
Martin
I had a student a little bit like Loughner about 10 years ago. Not quite as irrational, but he really got everyone’s attention. In his 3rd year, things started to ramp up a bit. He started stalking one of his classmates, and his behavior got stranger and stranger the closer to graduation his classmate got, the more concerned I got – the final straw was when he was spotted in a public computer lab looking at guns (not something that fit his personality). I sounded the alarm, which nobody was willing to take seriously (because he really hadn’t done anything illegal), but the evening after commencement he was picked up by police in the bushes outside his classmates house with a loaded gun – police following up on my insistence.
Got some kudos for that (after a week of being threatened of being fired for pushing everyone so hard).
Even with good mental health services and attentive people, it’s really hard to get in front of some of these problems.
Martin
@Ailuridae: Not so crazy that he couldn’t function as a money manager.
hamletta
@Yutsano: Would y’all please get a room?
racrecir
Where is Glenn Beck going with this?
Compare and contrast Beck’s latest:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201101140003
With episode 1 of the ‘The Century of Self’:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FB2C5DB5A268163A
hamletta
@Martin: Thank God for you!
I got beaten up just off campus enough for the school to wash their hands of me.
Never mind the threatening letters to my friends.
When I moved 30 miles away, my roommate started getting creepy phone calls.
We didn’t have enough money to change our phone number on a regular basis, so the phone company asked us to keep a log of what our creepy stalker said. And maybe they would think about it.
Only the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer brought attention to a tiny bit of the problem.
Frans
@moe99: John Cole is a Deadhead. It’s true! Look it up in the archives.
Mark S.
@racrecir:
How long until Beck starts reading straight from The Protocols of Zion?
Zuzu's Petals
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
Happened in California when he was governor. Emptied some state hospitals with the idea that lots of folks could be better helped at the local level, outside of institutions and closer to home and family. Okay in theory, but the money never really followed, so a lot of former patients ended up on the streets.
JGabriel
John Cole:
Seriously, I didn’t find it any less coherent than the typical unscripted Palin rambling.
.
Zuzu's Petals
@Martin:
My sister taught English at a nearby university several years back. She had more than one instance where someone’s “creative writing” project spurred her to report the student to the authorities. One kid was actually arrested as he came to class…which made it a trifle obvious who reported him.
Greg
Glenn Beck without a chalk board.
hilzoy
@Random User Name: Thanks for the link to the police reports. (Which should not be online, but are interesting anyways. Do I contradict myself? Then I contradict myself!)
— Check out the one from 9/23/2010, in which some poor security officer, confronted with this student who thinks that not getting a good grade on his work constitutes a violation of his freedom of speech, tries to walk him through Free Speech 101, at one point asking him whether it would be OK to yell ‘Fire’ in a crowded theater if there was no fire. (Loughner: yes.) At the end, they meet with some superior and say that “based on our experience and training, that there might be a mental health concern involved with Loughner.”
You have to feel for the security officers whose job turns out to involve trying to explain free speech to Jared Loughner.
batgirl
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
Sorry for repeating in this has been said. I’m late to this thread. There actually is nothing strange about the grammar and syntax of schizophrenic people being consistent. We talk about schizophrenia being a mental illness but there is something physically wrong with their brains. Given that our brains control speech patterns and pretty much everything else, I’m not surprised that those afflicted with schizophrenia have similar speech patterns, delusions, etc.
batgirl
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): I think deinstitutionalization began earlier than Reagan and, to be fair, the institutions that we are talking about for the most part were horrid. What did begin under Reagan was a mass cutting of funds for support services, in and out of institutions, for the mentally ill.
To truly and humanely treat the mentally ill in this country would cost a pretty buck, something that we as a country seem unwilling to spend.
hilzoy
“He very slowly began telling me in a low and mumbled voice that under the Constitution which had been written on the wall for all to see, he had the right to his “Freedom of thought”, and whatever he thought in his head he could also put on paper. By placing his thoughts within his homework assignment, his teacher “must be required to accept it” as a passing grade.”
(From the police reports.)
I’m trying to imagine what it must be like to try to make sense of the world, and have only this sort of mind to rely on. Trying to sort out what’s real and what’s not, what makes sense and what doesn’t, when you can’t just see what’s wrong with, for instance, the idea that the Constitution’s guarantee of free speech grants you the right to a passing grade for whatever you say.
It must be so horrible. — Obviously, I’m not saying this to deny how awful what he did was. But it must be awful to be him, lost in a world that makes no sense whatsoever.
Paul in KY
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Back then, it came to light that there were numerous instances of actually sane people who had been committed by relatives either out of spite or to remove them from inheritance struggles. People who had been in mental hospitals for many years who were as sane as you or I (you, anyway).
It was very sad. After that came to light, there was a move to significantly tighten the hurdles it took to commit someone.
That probably led to this, in a way, as relatives can no longer get an adult involuntarily commited by swearing in a court of law that they are crazy (IMO).
kindness
@moe99: I only ask because I just couldn’t picture it myself. Honestly, I’ve been to more than a few. And I can tell you that there were all types ‘o people at ’em. Quite the carnival.
So…others say he is. I wanna hear the stories.
xian
@Frans: he’s not the only Deadhead here, and it’s one of the reasons I have a soft spot for the guy.
xian
@kindness: but surely you met some Republican Deadheads at shows in the ’90s? they tended to be the libertarian “motto is don’t tread on me” types (or hedonistic fratboys) and I wonder how many (besides Ann Coulter) are still buying into right-wing delusions?
Neo
Keep you children out of the room when viewing this video …
it may cause them to go to sleep … boring
Oliver Stone must be shaking in his boots.
“Pink Flamingos” was better.
Paul in KY
@Neo: It’s probably better than ‘Two Girls, One Cup’.
mclaren
Jeez, John, you must not have been paying attention to any of Ronald Reagan’s speeches.
lllphd
hey, evidently reagan was in fact also dementing.
and john, your comment about mike gravel is actually funny, but could i just take it upon myself to beg for a little respect for the guy?
he’s actually the one who read the pentagon papers into the congressional record. just for the record.
you’re right, whoever produced those monstrosities should be, um, held accountable. but i think it was just gravel trying to be him and edgy. what could he know? he’s an old man.
but, he did read the pentagon papers into the congressional record. so, ultimately, a hero in my book.
just for the record.
bemused
@Martin:
Interesting. This McCrudden isn’t the only one. I remember hearing Peter DeFazio talking on a radio show about his opponent, nutjob Art Robinson, being funded by Concerned Taxpayers of America that hedge fund exec Robert Mercer heavily donated to.
Random User Name
@hilzoy:
You’re very welcome, hilzoy.
Mike Kay
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE U-2’s live version of Helter Skelter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLmqjcYtH3c
kindness
@xian: Honestly one time at the Greek Theater in Berkeley I was dancing next to a Colonel & his buddies the whole show. It was cool though. Republican Deadheads…..well, certainly not the CA variety. North Eastern maybe.
Go Pittsburg by the way.
jh46inaz
Would it be elitist of me to point out something that seems to be rampant in the current 20 something generation? Someone is selling a T-shirt displaying the fact that none of them seem to know the difference between “your” and “you’re”?? Just sayin’