Several months ago, the amazing invention known as the internet informed me that, somewhere on the Indian sub-continent, an elephant was hit by train. This was really bad news but I did the irresponsible thing and resisted the urge to get more information. \u00a0I didn’t click on the link to see a picture and my inner voyeur was disappointed.<\/p>\n
Recently, I read about an Australian\u00a0\u00a0woman who swam in crocodile infested waters and was unsurprisingly “taken”\u00a0by a croc. Crikey<\/em>. A few weeks after that, there was the child eaten by the allligator in Florida.<\/p>\n Then there are the shootings. The mentally ill shooting people, terrorists shooting people., mentally ill terrorists shooting people, cops shooting people, people shooting cops. \u00a0Before the shootings in Orlando, a bomb went off in an amusement park in Pakistan killing more children in one blast than have been lost to alligators all year. (My estimate).<\/p>\n Death and suffering aren’t really news are they?<\/em><\/p>\n The headlines are enough for me.<\/p>\n Copyright 2016 Magnus Incognito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several months ago, the amazing invention known as the internet informed me that, somewhere on the Indian sub-continent, an elephant was hit by train. This was really bad news but I did the irresponsible thing and resisted the urge to … Continue reading