On the one hand, Johnny Knoxville and his Dickhouse cohorts were quick to chastise Roger Ebert for posting a trenchant, albeit somewhat ill-timed, tweet about drink-driving in the wake of Ryan Dunn’s death; on the other, it seems as though half-assed wisecracks about the recent events in Norway are fair game.

Hypocrisy, much?

To wit:

If you must insist upon it though, let's just say that Priya has face value for days with her outstanding track record for being very, very jumpy. Like scream-bloody-murder-summer-camp-killing-spree jumpy.

This remark isn’t necessarily as crass as it seems to be at first glance, though. After all, there’s no need to assume the existence of malice when simple ignorance will suffice as an explanation. Even so… Really, guys?

To be 100% clear, I don’t have any objection to the content of the above-referenced blog post, merely the context in which it was made.  A guy gets drunk, drives like an asshole and kills himself, not to mention a close friend, in the process, and it’s too soon to pass comment; a xenophobic nutjob murders 77 innocent people and injures 242 more, and that’s a-okay.