Dark Thoughts From The Dark And Bloody Hunting Ground

Some dark thoughts from this morning's webbing...

Mother sets fire to gloating rapist. A Spanish 13 year old is raped at knife-point. The man is convicted and spends time in prison. Somehow, he gets a three-day pass and visit his hometown. He passes the mother of the girl on the street and ask "How's your daughter?" in a typical macho gloating fashion. Mother soon returns with a bottle of gasoline, douses the rapist, and sets him ablaze. She calmly looks at him burning to death, then walks away. My first reaction..."Good for her." Dark thoughts. I despise rapists, but I had no idea I despised them that much. Damn.

The remainder of the dark thoughts center around the Supreme Court of the USA. What a farce. In the last week, they have proven themselves to be gutless, feckless, mealy-mouthed, political gas-bags. Here's what we've learned from the SCOTUS recently... That private property is no longer yours...you only are allowed to hold it until some random commercial interest decides it wants it. That as long as you don't mention god or jesus, it is OK to establish one religious viewpoint over others on government property, simply because otherwise some religious zealots would get offended. That software designers are evil because they "promote" piracy, even though they stopped short of actually saying the authors were criminals. That cable monopolies are A-OK! That journalists should be jailed, but priests, lawyers, and doctors should not. That entirely-unfederal marijuana is a Bad Bad Bad Evil Thing and should be crushed ignoring all state and local rights in the process. That we should all get accustomed to "Ihre Papieren, bitte! Mach schnell!" and respond quickly and quietly.

The one decision that immediately impacts my life in a positive way? They struck down the ability of states to prevent import of non-locally produced wine. As a wine enthusiast who has had trouble getting some of my preferred wines because of my state's insane liquor laws, this impacts me positively. I still don't know if I agree with this decision in full beyond the "at least I can get <impossible-to-get-wine> now" aspect of it all. While I did not hear or see any aspects of this case that were exceedingly negative, it so strongly goes against the grain of recent decisions I have to wonder what I missed.