Gone Postal

Let me first say that this is NOT about Sarah Palin's book Going Rogue (not entirely).  While we as a nation continually hunger for all of the tidbits that is Ms. Palin from her introduction to the national stage to the Katie Couric interview to her issues with the McCain campaign; there are things that are more important and should matter more that the time that we (and I) have wasted and will continue to waste on all that is Sarah Palin.

My fellow citizens we have a problem much worse than the book Going Rogue, we as a nation have gone postal!  You know what going postal is, someone who gets uncontrollably angry, becomes violent, and either harm, shoots, or kills people.  People who think little about those that they are harming and the long term effects that they will leave behind. These people, at least most of them have now kill themselves, robbing the rest of us the reasons why or the ability to look them face to face. The sad thing is that the news is getting worse and each horrible crime is somehow worse than the story that became before it.

Just this weekend, in Berkeley, CA, the same city where I attended college, a man (allegedly) killed his girlfriend and possibly her eighteen month old son.  This same man was convicted and served time for killing the son of a girlfriend over 15 years ago.  A doctor in Oklahoma is accused of killing his nine year-old son.  A woman in North Carolina is accused of not only killing her five year old daughter but there is the possibility that she was abused.

Add to this the killings at Fort Hood, the man who went to his former job in Florida that killed one and injured five others, and the countless other crimes, rapes, assaults and the national conversation that we are having today is the force-feeding of a woman that the majority of the country would not elect Vice-President, no less President.  Along with the circus of loons she brought with her including Levi Johnston, we have been distracted from the things that should matter most.  This is the same woman that contributed to health care by talking about death panels and who quit as the Governor of Alaska near the third year of her first term in office.

Anyway, these are the signs of where our priorities lie.  We are occupied with Palin, Prejean (and her sex tape), a boy on a ballon whose parents succeeded in gaining the fame that they desperately wanted, and 2012, the movie that made $225 million worldwide this past weekend.  A movie that fuels the obsession of the (rumored and unproven) end of the world by terrible and disastrous means.

There need not be floods, fires, earthquakes, and other specials effects that masquerade as national disasters, we are killing ourselves without these things.  We are treating each other worse by the day (hour).  I don't know if it is the water or if it is global warming, but "going postal" is becoming the new normal.  That makes me terribly sad and it should make you sad too!