Like most of us, I guess, I grew up in a world in which we can readily see evil, and identify pure evil as a cause of events.

Specifically, I grew up to see Hitler and Stalin and Mao as evil, and the terrible destruction of life that arose from them as something caused by their evil. I still think they're evil. But the second part of that sentence may be simplistic.

It may be that Hitler and Stalin and Mao were the norms for our new world - not exceptions, but terrible examples of a new normalcy.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately and am looking for a few other ideas about this whole scenario.

The recent Kingston canal murders of four women of colour are still under investigation, but formal charges have been laid against the father, mother, and brother of three of the victims (with the fourth suspected of being a first wife of the father).

Apparently, we just missed Bring your Gun to Church day.

www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1906765,00.html

Some people have no concept of reality...

Lest We Forget to Remember

How can we remember?

That long time ago

decades before our birth

We only see the grainy, greyed images

of soldiers marching, fighting, dying

and walking skeletons

of POW's and the Final Solution

A mushroom cloud

shocking the world into uneasy peace

But it has not ended

Ongoing battles erupt on our streets

Violence confronts us

 CNN live minute by minute

So we mute the sound

detach from the images

tune out the pain