E.K. NATION

Isaac Davis: Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? You know, I read this in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, you know, get some bricks and baseball bats and really explain things to them.

Party Guest: There is this devastating satirical piece on that on the Op Ed page of the Times, it is devastating.

Isaac Davis: Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point.

Like I said before, hell yes, I have an opinion about this Michael Vick story. And it is difficult to decide the best way to express it. A heartfelt, honest open letter saying how disappointed I am in some of humanity? Is satire the best way? A venom-fueled invective?

Or bricks and baseball bats?

Michael Vick should know one thing: It is my aversion to violence, my aversion to violence alone, you scum-sucking psycho, that will allow you to live as long as you wind up living. You mess with dogs, and you mess with me, but lucky you that I am not capable of performing acts similar to yours.

At the very least, Vick the Prick should be subjected to the same kind of punishment he and his weak-minded posse inflicted on those poor dogs. And if it were possible to inflict anything worse upon them, they would deserve that too. But swinging dogs' bodies over their heads and slamming them down onto the ground, and then electrocuting them, you know, I guess a similar fate would be good enough to deal with these human viruses.

By the way, it is irony or is it coincidence that Michael Vick, with a prison term looming, now undoubtedly has a hang-dog expression on his face?

In nicer, better-looking news: Happy 18th birthday, Hayden.