Once in a while my avoidance of all things called news fails and I become apprised of something more involved people have been living with for some time. The other day I saw and heard the video from the Castille horror and learned what we as a civilization have come to. Forget about the moon landing, hybrid cars and aspirations toward Mars. We've come down to a little girl trying to save her mommy from getting “shooted” by a cop. Can anyone say who has seen this video that his world has not been permanently darkened?

I don't see how we can get past this. I certainly think I can't. I can't think of anything I've seen that is harder to take. And yet where are the tears? If not for this, what are we saving them for? When we should be nationally heart broken, why do we view this as a damn shame, another damn shame on the pile of damn shames from the avalanche of horrible incidents we are suffocating under?

When John Kennedy was shot, people all across this nation wept. I think we're not capable of that anymore. That little girl deserves not the heartfelt regret but the tears of every one who heard her voice. And we as people, until we can give her that respect, will never be right with ourselves and we'll never progress beyond this point. Modern man lives with the suffering of millions and it has made him numb to all but his own.

confederacy of dunces

I feel compelled to comment that if our habitat is extinguished by global warming, we deserve it. Most people who are experts figure it's probably too late to fix the atmosphere but Norway bought a swath of South American rain forest anyway because in case there still is time, trees are our first line of defense. Meanwhile here in Florida, United States of Oblivion, we're still into destroying as many trees as “developers” want to. With this in mind I just drove by another giant parcel of land between Lake Mary and Sanford entirely cleared of life for a new and much needed subdivision so more people can live here and accelerate the death of the aquifer. This of course promoted and allowed by the shit-for-brains Seminole County commissioners. Also allowed to happen by all of us. Why should we do our bit to slow global warming when we can speed it up instead? If we have not yet reached the tipping point, at some point we will. Maybe this particular tree loss will be what pushes us over.

If sanity ruled, the populace would go to this wounded land, replant it and refuse to allow this sort of thing to happen anymore. We have the numbers to pull it off. We just lack the will. Insanity is king.

Here's an incongruity:  TV News outlets decrying terrorist attacks while encouraging them with their saturation coverage.  These days we all know what it looks like.  Your news anchor need say only the location.  We can, if we wish, imagine the rest.  No footage, no horrified opinions, no glamour.  Just on to a  story about the latest breakthrough foot powder. 

It doesn't take even half a brain to see this is a better way and easily achieved.  The question I would like answered by a network executive is why do they give the perpetrators exactly what they crave?