Thank you, Ronald Reagan. [View All]

You changed my life. I was just out of college and had moved to NYC shortly before you took office. Your murderous, hateful policies radicalized me. I discovered writers like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky because of you. Your brutal policies toward the peoples of Central America inspired me to attend my first protests, and I was proud to march by the White House and give you the finger (yep, that was me). Thanks to your barbaric policies, the City was an edgy, exciting place to live in during the 80's, not safe and middle class like it became during the Clinton years (which I am now grateful for).

As luck would have it, I had planned long ago to see an old friend tonight that I rarely see anymore. As hard as it is to believe, he hated you even more than I did. You dropping dead today really livened up the party. We had a great time. We didn't bother to shed any tears--there's a lot of people in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and here in America that never got to see the age of 93, because you killed them. There are plenty of people more deserving of sympathy than you. I refuse to feel sorry that you're dead just because the media and society tells me I'm supposed to feel that way. I'm glad you're gone. Unfortunately for us, your spawn is living in the White House.