An old friend of my mother's, that she worked with at her previous job for about ten years, is in the hospital after being shot four times by her husband. The husband also murdered their seventeen year old daughter before killing himself. The story can be found here.

From what my mother told me, three of those shots went into her head. She was put ( Read more... )

Being a pissy asshole improves brain function!

I always knew it to be true. :-)

It highlights yet another example of how utterly fucked up this system is ( Read more... )

Because then I have to hear about shit like this.

You know, I don't usually come out in favor of the state taking children away and putting them in foster care, since I experienced the less pleasant side of how the state takes care of people and wouldn't wish my experiences on anybody. But in this case, I seriously hope she loses custody of each and ( Read more... )

I feel a little less stressed now than I have been lately. This is probably a good thing. I've come a ways toward accepting certain things it has been hard to accept. Which isn't to say I'm particularly happy about it all yet, but i am slowly accepting it ( Read more... )

I guess I can add this to the list of reasons I'm glad I don't live in China

Like this is going to do shit to solve all the world's ills. People are so fucking stupid.

As I was getting to my AOL mailbox this morning, I saw a story about how Pat Robertson has declared that there will be major terrorist attack on the United States this coming year, sometime after September. A nuclear attack possibly, which will devastate many large cities and kill hundreds of thousands of people. Apparently, God told him this ( Read more... )