…from a world gone mad while we here in the Valley of the Sun bake in the humidity and patiently wait for any kind of rain during this disappointingly-dry monsoon season:

Headline: Bride Sees Groom Eaten By Shark. Typical media concocting a headline that is misleading. It’s not as if the shark was invited to the wedding, and besides, this happened during their honeymoon, not during their wedding. Just thinking: does this mean the bride has to return the gifts? (Hat tip: Drudge)

Teen stabbed at non-violence gathering. Well, what else would you expect in the City of Brotherly Love? (Hat tip: Instapundit)

Obama warns Rick Perry that words matter. This from the same guy who told his supporters to “get in the faces” of those who disagree with them? Or his own VP calling the Tea Party “terrorists”, or his own Senate Majority Leader calling them “hostage takers”. Me? I’m tired of all these calls for civility. After all, you only hear liberals call for civility after conservatives hit them about their true intentions.

Black on black rhetoric by Philadelphia mayor raises eyebrows. I could have told you this was going to happen, this is where the sixties liberalism of “do your own thing” meets the reality of working for a living:

“If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied and your pants half-down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you?” Nutter told the congregation “They don’t hire you ’cause you look like you’re crazy. You have damaged your own race.”

Actually, I feel the same way when looking at so many men and women out here with large portions of their bodies covered with tattoos. I mean, if you’re an employer and someone shows up with tattoos all over their arms, legs, and necks, would you hire them? I wouldn’t. And especially out here in Arizona, where much business is done in casual clothes by necessity. Call me old school, but to me these people are basically sending the message, “screw you what you think, I’m a freak!”