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Not much is happening - I work during the week, sometimes see one of my friends on an evening, and mostly sit at home during the weekends. Boring.
There's a lot of tales of horror in the news recently. Someone covered his girlfriend in petrol and burned her to death, someone else plucked out his ex-girlfriend's eye, a third person appears to have cut off his ex-partner's hand and killed her. I can't imagine what possesses these men to treat these women so badly.
I'm angry that the punishments won't be enough, like the person who plucked out the girl's eye who could be out of jail within 6 years, whereas his ex-girlfriend is disfigured for life. Similarly, a 16 year old boy was convicted of killing a pensioner in Manchester by hitting him with a car, and despite having 19 convictions for 49 offences he was still out on the streets stealing vehicles. When I was a kid, I lived in fear of going to jail if I did something wrong. It obviously was never the case but it was a useful illusion that helped keep most of my misbehaviour on the side of mischief rather than crime. Now children are all too aware that you can commit some hefty crimes and hardly be held accountable.
Elsewhere, a policeman left his 4 kids, went to work, and never came home, drowning in the floods in Cumbria. And another pair of dead soldiers return from fighting an ill-defined war to prop up a corrupt government.
I should stop reading the news!
There's a lot of tales of horror in the news recently. Someone covered his girlfriend in petrol and burned her to death, someone else plucked out his ex-girlfriend's eye, a third person appears to have cut off his ex-partner's hand and killed her. I can't imagine what possesses these men to treat these women so badly.
I'm angry that the punishments won't be enough, like the person who plucked out the girl's eye who could be out of jail within 6 years, whereas his ex-girlfriend is disfigured for life. Similarly, a 16 year old boy was convicted of killing a pensioner in Manchester by hitting him with a car, and despite having 19 convictions for 49 offences he was still out on the streets stealing vehicles. When I was a kid, I lived in fear of going to jail if I did something wrong. It obviously was never the case but it was a useful illusion that helped keep most of my misbehaviour on the side of mischief rather than crime. Now children are all too aware that you can commit some hefty crimes and hardly be held accountable.
Elsewhere, a policeman left his 4 kids, went to work, and never came home, drowning in the floods in Cumbria. And another pair of dead soldiers return from fighting an ill-defined war to prop up a corrupt government.
I should stop reading the news!
