No News Is Good News

Today, I watched the six-thirty national news on our local affiliate. It reminded me why I do not watch the news. It was all death, disaster and mayhem. Home foreclosures, flooding, people dying and killing themselves. I understand that there is a certain amount of reality involved, but seriously, is there no good news at all? I have a friend who has been on a news blackout since January of this year. I think that is good. I personally only listen to the comedy channel on satellite radio. Even this is no safe haven. In the past month, two hilarious comics have died, one by accident and one by his own hand. The latter death makes me mad. He died from an overdose. What a waste.

Speaking of wastes of humanity, one of the news stories tonight featured a young college student who recently killed himself. His roommate secretly recorded him having a sexual encounter and posted it on the web. The man who killed himself happened to be homosexual, so many people are calling for the voyeur to be charged with a hate crime. I don't think that it was a hate crime. I don't think the roommate did what he did because the guy was gay. It was, however, a hateful thing to do. My question is this: Why not beat the shit out of the asshole who invaded your privacy and showed a callous disregard for your emotional well-being? Not able to beat people up? Hire someone! The guy who recorded and posted the intimate relations of his roommate deserves to have his ass kicked, even if there hadn't been a suicide as a result of his boorish behavior. I'm sure his parents are really proud.

Since this is a totally negative post, I must add to my list of pet peeves.

Today, a driver in the right lane decided to make an unsafe lane change, nearly taking off the front of my car. Thanks buddy! I really appreciate your lack of attention in this matter! I hope you don't take out a car full of kids someday. Hey, I have an idea: Why don't you look before you nearly ram your 2000 pound weapon into my vehicle? Believe me, if you had hit me, and I was able to walk after the crash, I would smack you in the face.

Women....If you use a public toilet, sit down on the seat. If you cannot bring yourself to make contact with the seat, please clean up after yourselves. If you cannot be considerate of the women who follow you into the bathroom, then squat in the bushes outside. I do not have any hang-ups about sitting on a public toilet seat, but I really don't like having a wet ass because the wussy in front of me has issues. By the way, the toilet seat is in fact the cleanest area in a public toilet. Where is the dirtiest? The sink.

That's all for me tonight. I think I've done enough damage for one day. One final thought: If you don't like the "bad" language I have used, fuck off.