This is what evil is:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45722151

You burn an old lady to death because she owes you $2,000!?!  Evil is not liking a metal band, or sleeping around, or staying in bed on a Sunday morning...it is this man!

ANOTHER reason to love Stephen King!

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45699229/ns/today-books/t/stephen-king-raises-pay-mainers-oil-bills/

Think I missed that part...

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/10/9353503-officials-calif-parents-outsourced-beating-of-son

After 8 years in a Catholic school, I have been to MANY masses and had tons of Bible verses shoved down my throat.  I didn't pay all that much attention, but I am pretty sure there was nothing in there about having your neighbor beat your son with a metal pipe when you suspect he's been smoking.

Don't ask you son about it.  Don't talk to him about why it's wrong.  Just hire some heavy-handed parishoner with anger management issues to beat him senseless with a pipe.  That's just good parenting.

How is this NOT cheating?

http://blog.al.com/live/2011/12/alabama_politician_caught_in_s.html

He moves away, starts impregnating women, and doesn't tell his wife about it?  Sounds like cheating to me. 

I don't know the whole story, but the it seems shady.  If he went through OFFICIAL means, not the Kiwi version of Craigslist, how has he donated to NINE women when fertility specialists recommend not donating to more than FOUR?  And he was having lunch with one of the women he impregnated...aren't the identities of most sperm bank donors confidential?

Man, those Republicans and their unblemished "family values".

This kind of thing gives me NIGHTMARES:

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/13/9416568-man-asks-cop-can-i-have-my-weed-back

I know...scary isn't it?  These people are out there...driving...voting...BREEDING!  Gives me chills just thinking about it!

Like a friggin slip n' slide!

The Duggar family announces that they are pregnant with their 20th child, that's right...20th!  Anyone else reminded of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-L3JMk7C1A

I'm sorry children, it's medical experiments for the lot you!

This is despicable!

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/Penn-State-victim-forced-to-leave-school-because-of-bullying-112111

Not only was the boy sexually assaulted by a coach he trusted, but now he is bullied so badly, he needs to leave school.  What is wrong with people?!?  So the guy was a great coach, so what?  He was also a pervert who abused young boys who trusted him!

They're smart...TOO SMART

This is hilarious!  I am glad that nobody was hurt.  I can say, that as an owner of a dog that is too smart for his own good, I am a little scared of what he might pull when I'm not looking!  That's it Rocco, I'm gonna be watching you!

http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_news/2011/11/unlicensed-dog-takes-bus-for-a-spin.html

What were you thinking?!?

Why, why, why, why, WHY would you let a person who looks like this:

inject you with ANYTHING?!?  What is appealing about this?  Ugh, it is unnatural and gross!  This is natural selection at work people!
http://widetrends.com/fake-doc-gives-patient-cement-injections/

Fahrenheit 451?

http://www.cracked.com/article_19453_6-reasons-were-in-another-book-burning-period-in-history.html

Ugh, this makes me so mad I could spit!  I completely understand the issues like books continuously being published and not having room to store the whole of written human knowledge, but to just destroy them is horrible!

I LOVE books!  They were my constant companion as a child and a treasured few still comfort me today.  I love the smell of books.  The aged smell of books in libraries, treasured volumes uniting the minds of disparate strangers.   The smell of new books in stores, crisp pages waiting to be devoured by hungry minds.

The feel of a book in your hand, the weight of it belying it's substance.  Something well-loved with a cracked spine and dog-eared pages.  Watching the bookmark (wrapper, post-it, receipt, whatever it is) moving through the pages.

Just one more chapter...just one more page.  Losing yourself in a story only to find out, after you finished it, that it is now early morning and you only have a few hours before you must get up and go to work.  Curled up, reading with burning eyes, words that seem to be ripped from your very soul. 

I can't get these things from a computer screen.

Depressingly beautiful like a Streetcar Named Desire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj5VyHOn_Bs

Morrissey - I Have Forgiven Jesus
I was a good kid, I wouldn't do you no harm
I was a nice kid, With a nice paper route
Forgive me any pain, I may have brung to you
With God's help I know, I'll always be near to you
But Jesus hurt me, When he deserted me, but
I have forgiven Jesus
For all the desire, He placed in me
When there's nothing I can do with this desire

I was a good kid
Through hail and snow, I'd go just to moon you
I carried my heart in my hand
Do you understand, Do you understand
But Jesus hurt me, When he deserted me, but
I have forgiven you Jesus
For all of the love, You placed in me
When there's no one I can turn to with this love

Monday - humiliation,
Tuesday - suffocation,
Wednesday - condescension,
Thursday - is pathetic
By Friday life has killed me, By Friday life has killed me
Oh pretty one, Oh pretty one
Why did you give me so much desire,
when there is nowhere I can go to offload this desire?
And why did you give me so much love in a loveless world?
When there is no one I can turn to to unlock all this love?

And why did you stick me in self deprecating bones and skin?
Jesus do you hate me?
Why did you stick in self deprecating bones and skin?
Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?
Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?

Really Walmart?

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44828381/?ocid=ansmsnbc11

"This is obviously not the type of behavior we would expect from people at our stores." Walmart officials said in a  statement.

Really?  REALLY?  You didn't expect that this might happen at WALMART, of all places?  The same place you can find this:

'Cuz I'm not really all that surprised.

And 19...yes, NINETEEN people are injured in this fight?  Did they bring their posse along?  How many innocent stockboys were injured in this melee?

Love and Perfection

People (mostly my meddling aunties) are always asking me why I’m not "with" someone.  I never really know how to explain why, but I had an epiphany this morning.  The perfect answer can be found in the game Perfection.  You know the one with the timer and all the little plastic shapes?

When playing Perfection, everyone always puts the easiest pieces in first.  These pieces were often the biggest pieces and those without a lot of edges (circle, square, triangle).  You could usually put more than one piece in these slots: smaller, edgier pieces like a star could fit in the large, round circle space.  As time ticked on, you would work in the smaller, more angular pieces.  These more complex pieces had only one mate and often had to be rotated a little to make the piece fit perfectly in the slot.

Love is like Perfection as everyone has a hole in the pit of their stomach that makes them feel incomplete.  We turn to other people to fill this spot inside us.  Most people are like the easier Perfection pieces.  The empty holes inside them are larger and they are less complex.  Multiple pieces/people will fit in their space.  The star may fit inside the circle, but it doesn’t fill the gap completely.  In these situations, the people often stay together not because they are complete, but because they feel that some cover is better than none.

Some people, (like me and perhaps you) have smaller empty spaces and are edgier (and therefore more complex).  Our angles make it impossible for most pieces to fit together with us.  It takes more time to size up potential matches and see if they fit perfectly.  It may take longer to find the right piece and rotate to fit, but that makes it mean more than all the circle/circle matches in the world.

There it is in a nutshell, I am a pentagon in a world of circles  :)