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It’s Official: We’re all going to Hell in a Handbasket
There are certain days here at QuizLaw when the headlines occasionally fail to scream: Idiot. Dumbass. Fucktard. Freak. And instead, lead one to wonder if we’re closing in on an apocalyptic Children of Men future, where everyone is so goddamn depraved that your stomach gets queasy. I love ladies stabbing their boyfriends kinky-style, astronauts soiling themselves for love, and men faking their own kidnappings as much as the next guy, but — at a certain point — other people’s pain stops being funny.
For a few minutes, that was today, when I read three headlines in a row that convinced me to avoid CNN for a few weeks. Take, for instance, this story about an Ohio couple who were sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for forcing some of their adopted, special needs kids to sleep in wire-and-wood cages. Naturally, the couple claims they were led by the Lord. Because, apparently, the Lord wants special-needs kids to sleep in urine-stained cages without pillows or mattresses.
Of course, I don’t know what’s worse: Sleeping in a cage, or sleeping with a senior citizen. In Oregon, an 84-year-old woman was sentenced to 36 months in prison after admitting that she slept with an 11-year-old in her foster care. God bless the foster care system in this country.
But, nothing is worse than this final news story, seemingly pulled straight out of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho: In January, Mia Sagote slammed a homeless woman, Leslie May, into a wall, threw her down, and punched her over, all over a $150 debt owed by May’s boyfriend. So, Sagote dragged her behind a trash container, stripped her clothes off, and took her cash.
But, that’s not the bad part: After May reported the robbery, Sagote and another woman, Leslie Siliga, soaked May in gasoline and burned her. Alive. The two women have been charged with murder.
And as if all that wasn’t bad enough, just to top it all off, those bastards in the North Dakota House of Representatives defeated a resolution that would have honored U2 frontman, Bono, for his humanitarian efforts in third-world countries. The resolution was defeated soundly, 58-35; apparently, many of the House members thought the resolution was referring to Sonny Bono. Because they’re idiots.
Comments
About the setting on fire of the homeless woman - she probably weighed less than 82 pounds. The two women who attacked her were pacific islanders - samoans. Hmmmmmmmmm
Posted by xhen | February 16, 2007 5:55 PM