Monday, November 23, 2009
Only The Good Die Young
Don’t know about you all but I love watching the local news. There’s always some idiot over dramatizing an event or saying something completely moronic and when they cut away from the anchors, we get to see more of that from the public being interviewed.
Have you ever noticed that every single person who was somehow killed was a good person, hard working, family oriented, caring, giving to the community? Ever notice that? No bad people ever die. No one ever comes on and says, “He was kind of an asshole and it doesn’t surprise me that he got shot.”
Just this morning, I was watching the local news for the traffic report, (I love to get up early on my day off and watch everyone stuck in traffic....oh how that makes me laugh). While I waited, a report came on about a guy who was killed over the weekend. Once again, he was a caring, hard working family man. Yah, ok, “family man”....that’s why he was killed at a strip club? Cause he’s a “family man”.
I don’t care if you think it’s ok to go to a strip club and frankly, I’m passed giving a shit if guys want to throw their money away at those clubs but spare me on the family man crap. In my opinion, a “good family man” spends time with his family at night, he doesn’t spend his “hard earned” paycheck at the strip club while his wife and kids sit at home.
“Oh Serenity, have some compassion, a guy was killed!”
Yah, whatever. I guess as I get older, I have less compassion for people who put themselves in those situations. This good, caring, hard working family man went to a strip club, got mouthy with someone and got his ass capped. Sigh...nope. I just have no sympathy.
Anyway, just once I’d like to see someone get on the news and tell the truth. “He was a total selfish prick, he was loud and obnoxious, aggressive and went somewhere he shouldn’t have been. But we loved him anyway.”
That I could believe.
