That is one bright shiney full moon out there tonight. With the high clouds it positively shimmers in the night sky. Tonight we’ve got the surf music on and the night feels warmer than it was last night.
I look at the moon and can’t help but wonder what kind of world we live in – I mean, I know (or at least hope) the vast majority of people are just out there working their a$$es off each and every day trying to make ends meet and make something of themselves, but then you read stories like this and you can’t help but shake your head:
* Some American Idol fan obsessed with American Idol’s Paul Abdul suffering from “extreme mental illness” offs herself with a drug overdose near Abdul’s house. She had already tried to kill herself unsuccessfully in the same location one time before.
* An overwrought fan of “The Daily Show” blogs (in her own words) how “I am owed,” “robbed of an experience,” and “emotionally empty” simply because she didn’t make the cut for being an audience member at her favorite television show.
* A radical gay rights group infiltrates and then disrupts a church service in Delta Township, Michigan by throwing fliers at churchgoers and shouting slogans such as “It’s OK to be gay,” and “Jesus was a homo.”
* A Korean woman addicted to plastic surgery is left unrecognizable after her obsession led her to inject cooking oil into her face.
You read things like this and wonder what the heck is wrong with people. I mean, these are folks who obviously have NO life – I think that goes without saying, but I can’t help wonder what kind of cloth these people were cut from. What sense of self-worthlessness is involved here? What the &^%$! were/are they thinking? What kind of upbringing did they have? You look at everything going on in the world and there just seems to be a bit of an issue with, well… perspective, don’t you think?
Sigh.
But don’t let this get you down. Crank this surf tune up (courtesy of Los Straightjackets) and dance around the room! And that’s an order!
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Thought for the day: Not for nothing, but did you know that on the very day Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was formally pronounced President-Elect of the United States, the Illinois State Lottery Pick 3 numbers came out 666. Coincidence, right?
Addcition and mental illness take many forms…few have anything to do with upbringing but more to do with genetic predisposition. True mental illness is a brain disorder, not unlike any other medical illness that affects body organs (of which the brain is one). Not everyone is treatable or can afford treatment…thus they are left to fend for themselves and do bizzare, self-harmful acts. This Korean woman most likely suffered from Body Dismorphic Disorder which isolated one aspect of the body and her case it was her face. Sad indeed, but they used to burn witches who may actually have had schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
Comment by Jana — November 13, 2008 @ 6:04 am
They only burned witches that didn’t weigh more than a duck. Haven’t you ever seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Comment by The Great White Shank — November 13, 2008 @ 8:01 pm
Well, I’ve yet to have duck walk into my office and complain of voices or that it went out and bought 5 Cadillacs in a manice episode.
Comment by Jana — November 14, 2008 @ 5:31 am
Indeed!
Comment by The Great White Shank — November 15, 2008 @ 8:53 pm