“Glome was a web–I the swollen spider, squat at its center, gorged with men’s stolen lives.” C.S. Lewis.

Walter Stabosz caught this amazing video with a perfect storm of spider, firefly, lighting, and, yes, storm. When BoingBoing.com linked to it, the video got 40,000 views in one day. But what fascinates more than this compelling video is its reception by commenters.  It’s like a Rorschach test. And of course I saw an apt analogy to the looters in DC.

In Lewis’ Till We Have Faces tragic figure Oruel realizes that far from being the victim, as she had believed her entire life, she is in fact the “swollen spider” who has poisoned life for all of those around her. When will the progressives who have been taxing the productive and subsidizing the unproductive for 40 years realize that they have done more harm than good?

Here is the original video: