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I'm a postin' machine today! But I just found this pleasant bit of news courtesy the Glob:

Arson suspected in pet store fire

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Cambridge fire officials are looking into a suspicious two-alarm fire at a pet store on Monsignor O'Brien Highway late last night.

Fire officials said this morning that the fire at the Boston Tropical Fish and Reptile store appears to be deliberately set. Arson is suspected because of graffiti on the outside of the store, which points toward an animal rights' group.

A number of animals were killed in the blaze. The store housed snakes, fish and lizards. Officials said many of the fish were saved.

The picture in the article shows the graffiti which reads "NO MORE EXPLOITATION OF ANIMALS." If this is true -- that some complete freakin' idiots brilliantly decided to burn down a pet store and kill that which they wanted to save -- then I have but one reply in the form of an image macro.

Or, to quote Strong Bad, "DORKS."

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antikythera.livejournal.com

There exists a set A of humanity that is capable of burning down a buidling full of live animals. There is also a set B who commit radical acts in the name of protecting or helping animals. I suspect that A∩B is extremely tiny.

It's not hard to imagine a subset C, contained within A, who would burn down a building full of animals for fun, and would get even more fun out of the irony resulting from blaming it on the group that is least likely to be responsible.

C >> A∩B, IMHO.