Is nothing sacred to the human race any longer? Some depressing headlines for your daily reality check...
Man Accused of Having Relations with Dog
It's one thing to have a human penetrated in beastiality "flings," but quite another for the animal to be violated.
Mexico Gangs Display Severed Heads
A lost and unimaginable world...
Congo Park Hippos Face Extinction
Not much hope for the few hippos that are left. This shit just makes me angry.
City Chief Quits Amid Reports of 20 Child Deaths
Philadelphia's tax money so hard at work...
Suicidal, Text-Messaging Teen Kills Woman (A Mother of Three)
Scorned, spoiled, rich, lesbian, Benz-driving brat takes away one of the most important things in the world to three little children. Fuck her.
High School Boy Fatally Stabbed at Campus Bus Stop
When is enough, enough? School violence is one of the compelling reasons I'm seriously considering homeschooling my kids. Between shootings and stabbings and the poor performance of our schools, I'm quickly losing the little faith and hope I had in our education system.
Priest Admits Fondling Foley, Says It Wasn't Abuse
I'm sorry, but if you're fondling a teenage boy, it's fucking abuse. If, as a priest, you've gone skinny-dipping with one of your teenage alter boys, it's fucking abuse.
Poll: Half of Americans Think Congress is Corrupt
No... really?!
Four US Soldiers Charged with Rape and Murder
One of the saddest stories I've read in some time. Bastards raped a 14-year old girl while her 5-year old sister and parents were killed in the next room. My God, what are we doing to each other?
Saturday, October 21, 2006
What Have We Become?
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How sad, all of them.
It's funny you should have the article about the suicide attempt (funny to me, anyway). It reminds me of this movie we got in the mail the other day (we have Blockbuster online) called "Heavenly Creatures", about a murder in New Zealand in the 1950's where a 14-year old girl falls in love with a girl with TB. This girl's parents are divorcing, so this time when they send her to a warmer climate to get better (as they've done so often already), she's going by herself. First girl decides to kill her mother so she can go with second girl. True story. Bad movie, though. It is truly sickening to think about the atrocities some people are capable of.
Think I'm going to drink myself to death, now. Well, If I wasn't such a snob, I could.
Gods. I have nothing to say. I'm lost.
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All sad things...Its hard to know where to start. Helplessness takes over. But it can't be ignored either, overwhelming.
Heather, I agree, it is truly sickening to think about. Truth be told, I can understand the monstrous things people do when they've been immersed in it their entire lives. If death, torture, disregard for others, and violence is all a person has ever known, I believe he becomes a victim of his own life. However, most of us are blessed with "halfway normal" lives and a decent upbringing; we may still be a bit dysfunctional, but what has happened in this girl's life to ever justify what she has done? I'm just at a loss.
Fletcher, pour one for me, too, will ya?
It's funny, in a way, that I even created this post. Typically, I'm a very optimistic and positive person who, truth be told, avoids the negative stories in the media because they depress me. Lord knows, I need no help with my depression, thank you.
I guess I was feeling particularly dark that evening. Fed up, bitter, angry, and hopeless, perhaps posting the awful-ness of the world helped release a bit of steam from the pressure-cooker. Who knows? Perhaps I am one of the sick fucks in the world who is just waiting for that opportune moment to prey on others.
Thank the gods for you guys, this blog, and the ability to stay sane for just a few more days.
Kristin, you summed my thoughts up nicely. It IS hard to know where to start. Helplessness DOES take over and, for me at least, leads to hopelessness and despair.
Sometimes when I look at all the shit in the world, I desperately want to find a way to make things better. Why? Perhaps selfish, perhaps cliche... I don't want the world to be necessarily better for the shitholes that are fucking it up now. I want it to be better for my children. I want to leave them with a world that they can feel hopeful and optimistic about.
I think I have my work cut out for me.
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