a new kind of crazy...

Is it just me, or is there a whole new kind of crazy out there these days?

Stephen Grant, pictured above, has been arrested for his wife's murder and dismemberment. He has fully confessed to his crime and detailed how he buried parts of his wife's body in a local park. When he found out search teams were going to be in that same park the following day, he kindly went out there, retrieved her torso, and put it where it rightly belonged. In his garage.

In Texas, a seventeen-year-old was arrested recently after police confiscated a stolen video camera from his home. In the camera, they found tape of said seventeen-year-old making his two and five-year-old nephews smoke a joint. It's lovely footage... he sweetly lights the marijuana cigarette for the two-year-old and laughs coyly as the boy stumbles around the room. I mean seriously. You can't trust a two-year-old with a lighter. The five-year-old appears to be a pro at puffing the chronic. Clearly Uncle Responsible has lit it up for this kid before. Un-f-ing believable.

Remember the best friend who carved her BFF's fetus from her belly to claim the baby as her own? It was hilarious. She also killed her friend's three older children and stuffed them into a washing machine. I'm sure she just wanted them to be with their mother.

Then there's Michael Devlin from my home state of Missouri. You can imagine my pride. He kidnaps little boys and sodomizes them for fun. He even managed to get one of his victims to stay with him for four and a half years. He couldn't have been all bad for the kid not to leave, right? Threat of imminent death if the boy tried to escape couldn't have had anything to do with the kid's decision, could it?

Michael Jackson sleeps with little boys and talks about it like it's perfectly normal. A NASA-f'ing-astronaut puts on a diaper and travels 900 miles to Florida to kidnap and probably kill a woman because some married dude she's not even having an affair with likes the Orlando chick more than psycho-astro-nut lady. There was a father arrested recently for repeatedly using a stun-gun on his eighteen-month-old son. Another father hit his daughter on the head and then left her outside in the snow in single-digit temperatures until she died. This same model citizen is also being charged with sexual assault against another child in the home.

What the hell has made its way into our drinking water?? Where are these people coming from? Has stuff like this always gone on and we're just now being bombarded by these stories because of the internet age and instant access to news? Has society changed to the point that we need to hear this stuff to reassure us our lives aren't that bad after all? What happened to our values? Why don't neighbors look out for each other anymore? Have we really gotten that callous? When was humanity devalued to the point that it's easier to strangle your wife and hack her into pieces than say, "Hey, this marriage thing isn't really working out for me. I think we need to contact attorneys."

Crap like this is why I don't watch the news. I need to put myself on an "internet news" diet, too. I'd rather be blissfully ignorant about current events than have atrocities like these needling away at my soul on a continual basis.

I've gotta go un-wind.