still alive... just hiding out trying to finish school work for the semester...
just have to say though, bill oreily makes me sick to my stomach... more post semester....
6.12.07
13.9.07
behind on the times...
So I was shocked when I was having lunch with my ethics professor yesterday and she brought up some of the latest current events that I knew nothing about. i guess to cut myself a little slack, i should say that i've been on the move the last two weeks bouncing from friend to friend until i can move into my new apartment. I could also tell you that I haven't watched tv since I don't know when, NPR has not played on my radio lately, and this is the first time in many days I've sat down to surf the internet. none-the-less, you'd think lving in a society where people love to talk talk talk about everything i'd have at least heard somehting... i mean, i even knew about the whole thing with michael vic's dogs, but perhaps that was because it was centered here in virginia...
The first bit of news that I find to be horriffic and tragic is the story about the young woman who was raped and tortured for a week in a mobile home in west virginia... The first article published on the nytimes yesterday talks about the abuse she suffered, the condition she was in when the police found her, and whether or not she knew any of her abusers... in today's article we learn that she was being held in her boyfriend and his mother's moile home and they and others were torturing her.... that he had abused her before... that both he and his mother have been convicted of murder (family memebers) and served time... that terror and violence seem to surround this mobile home... reading these articles is shocking, how can you step away as anything but disturbed? how can this girl go on with her life? what can a therapist, a religious leader, a loved one, or friend say to her to ease the pain and fear that must surely be surging through her? Are we really sitting here in the 21st century letting these kinds of things happen? last week i learned that one in four women and one in 13 men will suffer from domestic violence. why? why don't we address these things in our churches and schools? why don't we talk about them at our dinner tables? why do we close our eyes to the suffering that goes on in the world around us? hate crimes are not ok.
time off from work for baby-making in russia... are you kidding me?! because the birthrate doesn't outweigh the death rate due to drugs, disease, and other problems that should be addressed rather than giving people the day off for sex? ack!
more coming soon... i have to go finish an assignment for class...
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