Update, 2:55 PM: Well, this shit’s going viral. That’s what happens when you fuck with someone’s internet fame.

Two days ago, I faced a dilemma. After all, we had just elected Barack Obama as our new President. You know, that handsome young fellow who was always talking about change and hope, but doing so in a way where you still felt like a fucking adult when he was done? Yeah, that was neat, and it was really encouraging to know that millions of my fellow Americans agreed.

Still, I felt a peculiar sadness — what would I do without my precious outrage? How could I be funny when I wasn’t surrounded by idiots? Well, a big fat mixed blessing showed up in the form of a protest against California’s Proposition 8. Specifically, at about 2:40 in the following video.

Now, I don’t know those two guys getting smacked around by the cops. But about half the people I follow on Twitter do, and countless friends of theirs know them as well. For the last few hours, my stupid little Twitter client has been lighting up with one bit of terrible news after another. Nobody knows what the charges are, and bail’s been set at some ridiculous amount.

So there we have it. They sent an internet-famous person to jail for thinking gay people should be allowed to get married in a state where it was already fucking legal until a couple days ago. The internet will kick back furiously, of course. In the end, nothing will be accomplished because maybe he said the F-word in front of a cop, and therefore the pundits will claim the ensuing brutality and arrest were completely justified (assuming they notice at all).

All in all, it was a fun couple of days, but I’m officially done being hopeful. It’s time I got back to my busy schedule of god-mocking and America-hating.