I would ask him to forgive me for taking great pleasure in this. Guess that's what schadenfreude is all about.

Great pleasure in what, exactly? You cut off the link. I like schadenfreude as much as the next guy, so let us know!

Linkage in the above story isn't quite right. Also, I like the phrase "Universal Omnicompetent All-In-One Expert Without Portfolio" (by "Ace"). Seems a bit large to put on my business card though.

Talk about falling flat on one's face...

Better version of the link, for those who can't View Source:

http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/your_moment_of_schadenfreude_for_today_bush_mocking_journalist_piers_morgan/

(This will probably be blocked by filter that prevents the meat I dare not name...

Is it schadenschadenfreude when you're attempt to point out someone's mockery falls flat on its face as well?

Sorry, link is fixed now...

Karl- my best friend, Dave Hannah (popularly known as the retired graverobber), once had a friend whose business card simply gave his name, and the phrase "Still at large." Much more succinct.

(Dave was an archaeologist with the National Park Service, and later went on to be a salesman for RealityWorks, marketing the Baby-Think-It-Over simulator doll for high school sex ed classes. Possibly the only upright citizen ever to both rob graves and sell babies. Oh yeah, and he was at one time a gunrunner, too, selling .22s to Mexican peasants to shoot rats in their crops. Colorful, he was. I miss him.)

My understanding is that He will recognize your remorse, and as an act of grace grant forgiveness without a request thru normal channels.

"If I Believed In The Lord

I would ask him to forgive me for taking great pleasure in this."

No need, Rand - He's too busy laughing his own ass off. ;-p

I believe that anybody who criticizes our president deserves to be injured, even maimed.

Rob, that's not even a real strawman. It's one of those decorator strawmen you get at the craft and fabric store.

Our beef with this guy isn't that he criticized the president, it is that he used a fall which proved to result from a design flaw and led to a product recall as a basis for mocking the president. Furthermore, we would have been happier if the reporter had fractured only his dignity, as he deserved. Then there wouldn't be the guilt attached to our enjoyment.

In other words, sod off, swampy.

Yes, I like schadenfreude as much as the next guy, so let us know!