Odd, I have more time on my hands right now and I haven’t had time to blog lately.

Anyway, just thought I’d present some topics of angst and anger, for no other reason than to vent:
Lawyer trying to do good, murdered.
Anyone who knows me knows I think lawyers are the scum of the earth–but that’s an unfair catch-all. There are a few, like Jonathan Luna whose goal it was to prosecute drug dealers and molesters and get some of the scum off the streets…and he ends up tortured and murdered. 38 years old, wife and two kids.

Scum let back out on streets
Meanwhile, the guy who kidnapped the North Dakota student Dru Sjodin was convicted of kidnapping and rape three times, was released after 23 years in prison, and deemed no longer a threat. Only weeks after his release he does it again, and possibly added murder to his list. He wasn’t even being watched after his release. Possibly the only reason they caught him as quickly as they did is because a victim of his now living on the West Coast called the police saying this sounded like the guy’s M.O. and he’d been released in that area recently.
I believe even more vehemently that serial rapists as well pedophiles and serial murderers (by serial, I mean more than one,) should be at best exiled to their own island if not put to death. There’s no cure for the deviant disorders that cause people to want to rape or molest or murder sociopathically. It’s part of who they are, and that makes them unfit to live in society. I say, two strikes, and you’re dead. No long appeals, no living off taxpayer money for years, just a .50 cent bullet to the head and dumped in a mass grave or cremated if your family doesn’t claim you and pay for a burial.
No, better yet, permanent exile to that island where they’re forced for the rest of their lives to manufacture goods for society’s use. Then, if it starts to get too full, start killing some off.
You might think it’s ironic that I advocate the concinceless killing of people who are concinceless killers and rapists. To me, they’re not human but predatory animals that must be gotten rid of for the protection of a society, pure and simple.

Video games train to kill??
First it was crazy jazz music, then rock and roll music, then Dungeons and Dragons, and now video games. There will always be some scapegoat for a) sociopathic kids or b) lack of proper ethics instilled by parents, or a mixture of both. Look, I LOVE violent movies and video games, and I listen to Rammstein and some Marilyn Manson (some of it’s not worth listening to,) and guess what, I’m not a vilolent person. (I can actually hear alll the eyeballs widening and rereading the above section on advocating killing murderers and rapists.)
Hey, I’m all about society killing the people who kill and prey on society, but I hate violence personally. In real life that is. I’ve seen countless violent images in movies and perpetrated countless violent actions in video games, but I still get sick to my stomach when I see the video of Kennedy’s assassination. I still get emotionally flumoxed when I see some news story on some innocent person who’s killed in real-life. I still remember watching a Dateline years ago that showed a police cruiser’s dash-cam as he chased a speeding reckless driver out of town and down a dark road, veering out of control and hitting another car…and knowing in that car was an innocent bystander college student with a bright future, instantly and horribly killed. I teared up.
Years and years of playing role-playing games, loving movies like Matrix and playing gory video games like Soldier of Fortune, and I’m not at all desensitized to violence. Neither is my brother, and neither is pretty much anyone else I know.
There was a study recently that showed more than 80% of people under 30 in prison for violent crimes, never went to movies or spent any significant amount of time playing video games. So as far as I’m concered, this blaming video games for acting out violence is bulls–t. Pure and simple.

We’re living in an age where parents aren’t raising their kids. They expect the schools to do it, they expect the media to do it, they expect everyone except themselves to raise their kids, and blame anyone and anything else when their amoral kid does something like shoot at cars on a freeway. We’re living in a culture of blaming other people, whether it’s for our mass obesity or spilling hot coffee on our laps or dumda– stupid behavior. We’re being convinced and raised that nothing is our own fault, it’s got to be someone else’s.

Take responsibility, people. You do something wrong or stupid, you own up to it and pay the cost. That’s ethics. That’s morality. If nothing else it’s good karma.
Even if you’re just living an ordinary life, take responsibility for it. You want something different in your life? Make it happen. Don’t wait for it to be brought to you, or for it to just “happen.” It’s not. You make your own path in life, follow it.