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08/20/2008 06:30 a.m.
Does it seem to anyone else as though the world is losing its mind?

Since the beginning of this month (or maybe that's just when I began to pay closer attention), I have read news stories of one man beheading a stranger on a bus, one man beheading his ex-girlfriend, another man jumping out of his car after a fender-bender and attacking the people in the car he had just hit, running one of them over twice and killing another with a knife, and so on. And another man walking into a church and opening fire because he didn't like their politics. Add to this those wacky Russians behaving in a decidedly Soviet fashion. Then add the recent deaths of two people in hospitals (one of them this month, the other a month or two ago) dying in waiting rooms waiting to be treated while workers ignored them. And so on, etcetera, ad infinitum. Maybe things have always been this way, and the news is just broadcasting every little horror that happens in all its repetitive high-definition-festooned glory. Or maybe maybe my stressed-out brain is just snagging all the nasty news like dust on double-sided tape.

No point to writing all this down, I guess -- just kinda hoping if I leave it here then maybe I can get to sleep tonight.
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