Rant 4.21.2007 |

What is wrong with people? How can anyone intentionally ram a cop and then shoot at him? Better question, how could you do that to anyone? I'm so sick of society today...the guns, the violence, the reckless disregard for others. We have songs that glorify killing cops and promote the degradation of women, gays and whatever else you can think of. We have a society obsessed with money and celebrity and we have parents who don't know where their kids are during the day or the night. The monumental lack of personal responsibility in this day and age is staggering.

It seems as if everyone is a victim in these days, and that "victim" status is used to explain away inappropriate behavior. "I'm a product of my upbringing", "I'm broke and depressed", "My dad beat me" blah, blah, blah...We all face difficulties in our lives, but those hardships don't give us the right to hurt each other and they don't make us victims. We all are responsible for our own actions...a lesson most in this country seem to have forgotten. And then there's our government who will spend billions in a war that was lost as soon as it started, but it won't do much of anything to give its own cities the resources to deal with the problems they face.

Ugh, sometimes I want to pull my head into my shell and just stay there.