Pay no mind to the fact that this isn’t, in fact, an infant, but rather world’s smallest man. Forget that he actually died today. (Yes, I’m a dick.) Reaction to this photo should be the same as to any newborn-with-parent:
Isn’t he just precious!
Cheap joke. But still funny.
Published by Theodore
Theodore Ross is an editor of Harper’s Magazine. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, Saveur, Tin House, the Mississippi Review, and (of course), the Vietnam News. He grew up in New York City by way of Gulfport, MS, and as a teen played the evil Nazi, Toht, in Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. He lives with his son, J.P. in Brooklyn, and is currently working on a book about Crypto-Jews.
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you are kind of a dick!
Dick perhaps, but admit–you’re laughing.