Trenchant News Analysis II

Coworker: dude, your boyfriend is already starting shit.

Mike Bevel: He's going through a phase.

Mike Bevel: We tried couples' counseling, and the therapist said this might happen.

Mike Bevel: It's called "boundary setting."

Mike Bevel: He needs to feel valued in the relationship.

Mike Bevel: My career is really taking off, now, what with the move from "coordinator" to "associate editor." And what's he got going for him?

Mike Bevel: I mean, I tell him I fell in love with the man, not the title.

Coworker: well, can the boundary at least be "Don't fire a nuclear missle at Israel?"

Mike Bevel: I can't say. He's on his own path.

Trenchant News Analysis I

IM Conversation #1
Mike Bevel: I hope they don't want me to stop thinking that the Ramsey's did it just because they found they guy who, you know, actually did it.

Coworker: it's a weird story

Coworker: the whole thing

Coworker: some stuff doesn't add all the way up

Coworker: like, why would he go to such trouble to hide only to roll over so willingly, to the press no less, when caught?

Coworker: also, did you read about his alibi during the initial investigation?

Mike Bevel: I missed that since I was cowering from that dude's cold, dead eyes.

Mike Bevel: Was it the "I tried to kidnap her, and killed her instead" explanation?

Coworker: an ex-wife of his claimed that he was in Alabama with her at the time of the murder

Coworker: and apparently, that checked out enough that the cops bought it the first time around

Mike Bevel: Was the ex-wife a 6-year-old beauty queen? Because that fish don't swim otherwise.

IM Conversation #2
Mike Bevel: I know the Jon Benet thing was a tragedy. But that killer guy? Have you seen his skin?

Mike Bevel: Flawless!