I hate the way people keep bringing up the time Steve Irwin dangled his child above a snapping crocodile. Was it wise to use his only son as bait? Not really. On the other hand, it was ages ago and the kid is fine.
There’s a phenomenon these days, I don’t know how to name it, but you make one asinine remark, dangle one infant above one crocodile, shoot one lawyer in the head, fuck one goat, and no one ever lets you forget it.
Kos’ “screw them" comment about the dead military contractors is a case in point. His enemies bring it up every time his name is mentioned, and they’ll probably still be hounding him about it when he’s eighty. To me, Kos is a pain in the arse, but I don’t think this remark was particularly revealing, insofar as everyone will say something vicious and idiotic if they keep talking long enough.
It's kind of horrifying that every time you fuck up from now on the details will be filed for all eternity on the internet, where moths and rust do not corrupt. If we are to keep our sanity in an age like this we'll have to try to be a bit more lenient to human nature. (I suppose I may as well take this opportunity to apologise for the time I posted a decades-old photo of Germaine Greer’s gusset.)
People make mistakes: that’s why they put rubbers on pencils.
*American readers, in my country a rubber... oh, to hell with you.
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