Marriage is such a funny thing. There’s all this talk about marriage and protecting the sanctity of it. Gays can’t get married because same sex union is against god. Marriage is sacred! We have to protect it. I think that’s hilarious. Why? Because most marriages end in divorce. Which is why one lawyer has decided to help people get people ready for the seemingly inevitable outcome. Jonathan J. Fogel wrote a book, Preparing for Divorce While Still Happily Married.
Even the title is macabre. Like planning your funeral when you’re five this book wants to start getting organized for your divorce long before there are storm clouds on the horizon. Fogel thinks that in our changing times one has to look at divorce the same way one looks at say living an area prone to tornadoes. You better have a storm basement because chances are your house is going to get blown away. Or in this case taken by your mate in the settlement.
But isn’t this just a self fulfilling prophecy? If you go into the marriage thinking that no matter how in love you are, no matter how committed you are to this thing chances are it’s all going to fall apart anyway.
I mean check out this jewel of advice and comfort:
Hopefully, as you read this book, you will find ways you can take control of your own divorce before it even starts.
Why even bother anymore? I think the problem is because people find it so easy to give up. When did being in love become so easy? People are jerks. Even if you love them they’re jerks. But that doesn’t mean you quit before the end of the game. That doesn’t mean you take your ball and go home.
I’m not anti divorce. Sometimes things don’t work out and that’s fine. It’s fine so long as you try. But who wants to try anymore?
Marriage is officially dead. Lay flowers on it’s grave and lets move on.
So I’m sure everyone remembers all the dumpster babies. Well in an effort to stop these heinous drop offs from taking place all states have passed “Safe Haven Laws” which basically allows parents to abandon unwanted infants at hospitals. This is a really good thing since prior to this, well, dumpster babies.
Unfortunately people in Nebraska are taking advantage.
Abandoning a preteen/teenager is a lot different from dropping off a completely unplanned pregnancy. You struggled with your teen for years. Get help and continue to go through it. Or go through the proper channels if you can’t. Dropping your kid off at the hospital at 15 is not really an option. I mean really at that age, they can find their way back. And you know suffer from the trauma of their parents abandoning them.
Ok so breaking into animal sanctuaries/zoos is some kind of right of passage in the fiction world. It happens all the time in tv and books. Some stupid kid breaks in after hours to do something stupid to the animals because it’ll be funny. Then they realize that hurting things really isn’t that great (and by things I mean animals because hurting people who have wronged you is just fine. Revenge is awesome). Unfortunately, that’s not how it always plays out in real life.
This kid is either really crazy or really brave. He was feeding a crocodile small animals. To the croc, he is a small animal. It’s amazing that Terry, that would be our friendly neighborhood death machine, didn’t snap him up.
But that’s not the part that was really troublesome. Sure, kids do dumb things all the time. It’s amazing most people make it past puberty. It was this bit:
Security camera footage at the Alice Springs Reptile Center showed the smiling youngster also bludgeoning to death a small blue tongue lizard and two more thorny devils during a half-hour of breakfast-time havoc last Wednesday.
See, because it wasn’t enough that he fed them to the croc, no, he had to kill them in a painful way first. And he was happy about it. That kid has problems. It’s unnatural to take pleasure in killing animals. It’s something that has to be done from time to time but generally speaking people aren’t doing it with glee.
That’s just wrong. That kid needs help. Serious. Help.
Death is a funny thing. It seems so final and absolute but really, how final is it? Who decides when to say when? Apparently surgeons do. And they end a life irrevocably to save another.
This is such an odd world that we live in. To say that this person is dead and are never coming back because their body has failed them. And to use those same parts for someone else where they will work and keep that other person alive where they have failed the original donor. I know very little about medical technology so I’m not even going to begin to speculate on how this is possible.
It might as well be magic as far as I’m concerned.
And it is to those people who receive the transplants and get to live more days into years. And the surgeons who make the call. Who say, “This person, this one is gone forever, never to return here again. I will use their parts to make life anew,” are all necromancers of sorts.
But it’s not magic. I know that. It’s a science. A tricky science with shifting rules and shady terminology. Terms that all mean the same thing but define it into less than categories. Brain dead means dead. Heart failure means dead. It all means the same thing.
It all means that that person isn’t coming back but they give their parts so that others may live.
So China is trying to kill everyone. Apparently. Lead in toys. Poison in formula (although some would say that formula is poison already, I’m not going to go that far, just you know, breastfeed. To be on the safe side). And killer candy. Just in time for Halloween Season!
The candy was found in Connecticut most recently and is being blamed for kidney problems and deaths. Wow. That’s pretty crazy,
The candy doesn’t even sound like a real brand. White Rabbit Creamy Candy. That sounds like a generic brand that you would find in a movie. Some hidden little Easter egg of a fact. Q: What brand of candy is the only kind featured in the Hip Indie Film? A: White Rabbit Creamy Candy! Hippy Hipster is the only character that refuses to eat it! Yay!
And if that was the case then Hippy would be the only one without failing kidneys. So go him for being an nonconformist.
This Halloween season, its not just the crazy down the streets you have to worry about trying to sneak things that will kill you into your tasty tasty candy but whole freaking countries. You have outdone the crazy guy down the street China. Kudos.
So there are pirates. In 2008 there are pirates. And I’m not talking about the kind of pirates that steal music and movies. I’m talking about the kind that steal cargo. On ships. Those kind. And really it’s not as romantic as one would think. More dangerous.
So we all know there are some desperate people in the world. And that desperate people do desperate things like PIRATE a ship full of munitions and take hostages and also demand large sums of money. And then some people, if they’re Somalia just ask Russia for help.
Ok, it’s 2008. Not only is there a pirate problem off the coast of Somalia. But they’re asking Russia for help. How very surreal. Who in 2008 asks Russia for help. Apparently they’re the go to people when you have a problem with pirates. Terrorists, America. Pirates, Russia. Watches, Switzerland.
It all makes sense.
In a crazy sort of way.
Although, it’s not just Russia that has been called in. There are others there. And they’re just not getting the job done. The Nigerian ambassador Handule has said, “Ships of more than 10 countries are now close to our shores, but we are not satisfied with the results of their activities.”
Ok dude, you’re talking smack right now? You guys have PIRATES. How ridiculous does that sound? Although I do think that it’s a problem that needs to be dealt with I still think it’s awfully hilarious.
Nature is funny and there are no words for this particular bit of hilarity. Just look.
Happy weekend!
My first apartment was this tiny little one bedroom. It was inside of a building that had once been a house and it was clear that my “apartment” had once been two bedrooms. I had no bathroom door. The windows didn’t open. There was no heat in the bedroom. But I did have mice so take that no pet policy! So I find it pretty sad that these shipping containers actually look nicer on the inside than my first apartment. Hell, they look nicer on the outside.
This little real estate marvel is the brainchild Brian McCarthy. He came up with the idea while visiting Mexico and seeing the poverty that people lived in. With the stunning growth of the society around them and the wages the workers were making he saw that it would be impossible for traditional housing options to work and thought of something new.
I’ve been to slums all over the world and never had a good idea to help them out. So seriously, kudos to him.
Every house will have a fully working kitchen and bathroom, electricity and air. Ok, now, really better than my first apartment. I don’t even have air now.
So this sounds like a good idea. And it’s really, truly it is.
But how long until it falls apart? And not the actually housing aspect of it either. That’ll go through without a hitch. This just reminds me of so many low income housing projects. You think they all started out as “projects”. No they started off as really nice places to live. With utilities that worked. And then overtime they got overcrowded and the people responsible for making sure that everything still worked stopped. And then they weren’t so nice anymore. And even though they are supposed to move out they don’t because really, where are they going to go?
Or just the people? How long until they stop caring where they live? And stop taking care of it.
So it sounds like a very nice idea. And I really hope that it works out well. I do. Prove me wrong humanity!
In the Bible, people were married really young. Never mind that it was probably because most people died very young some people still believe that girls should be married as soon as they hit puberty. Because their bodies are able to produce children. So yeah, that makes sense. In Crazy World. Well it’s not like that’s the only off belief that Tony Alamo holds. He holds a lot of them.
So our charismatic cult leader is notable for such great lines as “I’m a completed Jew,” and of course, “Consent is puberty”. And people who should probably know better follow him. Because he offers something that that are lacking. Whatever that something is.
Cults are like high school gone wrong. The cool kid has gotten out of pocket and is sucking up millions of dollars while forcing the losers that he sucked in to do dumb stuff. This guy kept his wife’s body on display for six months after her death because he believed prayer would bring her back. Although I appreciate the love lasting beyond death sentiment, I can’t quite get behind that level of insanity.
But still, they keep preaching and people keep listening.
Why is it always the boyfriend. There’s this statistic that was floating around about a year or so ago and probably still stands, that children from single mother homes are more prone to have violence done upon them. Mostly by the men that single mothers bring into their houses.
I, at the time that this was presented to me had a slew of theories about why someone would allow a person into their home that would hurt their baby. Why would any woman let a man do this? I thought it was about not valuing themselves, about being desperate for someone even someone dangerously flawed. Maybe they weren’t, dare I say? Good mothers at all.
But it’s none of those are conclusively it. Sure, I am positive that maybe one or two of them apply in a few or many of the cases of these children being killed by these men. But it’s not an across the board answer. It’s that some people are monsters.
Some people have no care for innocence. That’s the bottom line. They are horrible. Anyone who kills a child is horrible.
The stories, they break my heart.
