Craigslist Skank Agent

When it comes to the level of weirdness this blog tens to aspire to, I have to admit, this one is kinda weak. I know people engage in prostitution and all sorts of other criminal activity on Craigslist all the time... but dammit, it's frikkin' Craigslist! How do you expect to use that site to pull illegal shenanigans and not get caught eventually? Oh well, I guess the vocab term for today is "shank agent"...go use it in a sentence that isn't 1 to 3 years.

Here's the story:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/1201092skank1.html?link=rssfeed

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Orlando Gunman

Well, it seems that my current home town has made international news this week. If you haven't happened to catch the story on CNN or any number of other news channels or shows in the past day, a disgruntled gunman in Orlando Florida was taken into police custody yesterday after shooting six people at his former place of employment in a downtown office tower. Police say that 40 year old Jason Rodriguez (so weird, I used to know a guy with that name) will be charged with first-degree murder and other crimes.

Personally, after reading and viewing different reported accounts of this story, I have to wonder what levels of pain and frustration brings someone to engage in such intense behavior. Part of me almost wants to feel bad for the guy. However, based on what I know of the story, none of Rodriguez's personal problems were life-or-death and it all just seems to boil down to an example of a sadly irresponsible person taking his own problems out on others at immense cost... and in a state with the death penalty... good job there.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_orlando_office_shooting
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/orlando.shootings/index.html

Psycho Stabbin' Mama

So, now let's hypothetically say that you have a son in junior high school and he has just gone through one of his first little romantic breakups. Realistically dismayed, as a parent, there are always at least two options:

A. Do your best to console the poor kid by drawing on your own life experiences, wisely knowing that the child is still young, and when it comes to that kind of love, this isn't even the beginning.

B. Find some relatives of the girl who dumped your little boy and go Jason Voorhees on their asses.

For going with option B, the mother in this story easily gets a rating of 7 Zombie Darwins.

http://www.kfwb.com/Pre-teen-Break-up-Ends-in-OC-Stabbing/3552771

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