In case you missed it, the perpetually offended have found something new to be outraged over (good news for Patton Oswalt). It appears that putting the Boston bomber dude’s picture on the cover of Rolling Stone has lots of people all kinds of pissed off. I guess I should be outraged, too, though I’m not sure why (I haven’t read the article, though, so maybe I’m missing something).

I seem to recall Charlie Manson being on the cover of Life magazine (and on the cover of Rolling Stone too, it turns out), and nobody got their panties in a bunch over it. Of course back then there wasn’t a good forum for venting your disgust immediately to people all over the world. I mean, you’d have to write a letter the editor and then go find an envelope and a stamp and then walk to the mailbox, and then maybe they’d print it, and then maybe somebody would read it, but that’s about it.

I guess maybe it’s got something to do with it being the “cover of the Rolling Stone” and all. But RS is more than just stuff about Rock & Roll (as anybody who’s ever read any of Matt Taibi’s stuff knows), and they do actual news, too. In fact they probably do more actual news than a lot of “news” publications.

Still, I’m glad people are finding something to bitch about. It’s good to get offended every now and again and work up a good case of self-righteous outrage.

About all I’ve got to get mad about is the weather, and it’s too damn hot around here to work up much of a case of anything.