won't someone please show some sanity?

Should someone go to prison for stabbing a dog 27 times? Um, how is this even a question? The defense argument is that the woman was so "distraught" over a bitter divorce that she stabbed the dog twenty seven times after a confrontation she initiated with her ex-husband. I'm sorry but that is the most piss poor excuse for bad behavior I've heard recently. I can't believe the woman rejected a plea bargain of eight years, because the charges could land her substantially more. I understand people do crazy things under stress, but this is beyond what is sane. Actions like this do mean a person is a danger to others.

(Though this lame excuse doesn't top the mother I spoke to one day last year who informed me that her daughter must be lying about the sexual abuse by mother's boyfriend. Her reasoning was that her boyfriend volunteered with disabled children and MADD, so he couldn't possibly be capable of such an act. Meanwhile, I was wondering where the hell he volunteered.)

I so should have purchased Epic T-Shirt of Ganking for a couple birthdays recently. Brilliant. I've seen some hilarious WoW related shirts, but I especially like that one.

I've stopped feeling bad about totally missing a trip to Lush in New Orleans, because I ordered bath bombs from Fantasy Bath and completely forgot about it. Mmm currants and key lime pie baths are in my future.

My last call was about a bunch of kids who are literally across the street from my office. It's cracktown central over there, because it is east of 35 and those poor kids don't need to be there alone. I wish I could leave the office to go pick them up, cause that baby momma isn't getting out of jail anytime soon.

someone put the heat on instead of the air conditioning at the office today

Does anyone honestly take the president seriously anymore? Iran? Calling Jimmy Carter "sad" and "irrelevant?" Oh, my, stars. Jimmy Carter may not have been the most brilliant president of the 20th century but he does a lot of good work with his life right now that has a positive impact on ordinary people instead of the Haliburton shareholders. Ugh. Reading the news makes me want to throw things.

In less grim news, I signed up for the me_rse ficathon because I need a small short term goal. I am bad about being rigorous or dedicated when it comes to writing. Quite honestly, most of the time I finish the story in my head and since I know how it ends I see little incentive to actually write it down. If only I had a psychic connection to my word document, and did not rely on these fragile fingers.

All I can think about is going home and taking a bath.