DISQUS

avablog: Life’s a bitch, then you die

  • Danny Novo · 2 months ago
    Feet first is too good for them, Ben. Statistics (and damn lies, I know) do not bear out our fears, but fears are, by their nature, both irrational and instinctual. Best source I could find for data: NISMART documents from the DOJ. A decade ago, in 1999, there were 203,900 child victims of family abduction in the U.S., but only 115 "stereotypical kidnappings."

    That said, and with a big calming breath, these fears are just one of many good reasons to take an extra moment to hug our kids, tousle their hair, and let them know they are loved, no?
  • benjamind · 2 months ago
    I've been following this story as well. Googling child-GPS devices, wondering what would drive someone to do such a thing. I'm not usually a big death penalty person, but whoever killed that little girl should die slowly, feet first, in a wood chipper.
  • map · 2 months ago
    If you don't care about the life of a child, what will you care about? I suppose that's why they call these dissociative mental disorders, that someone can perpetrate an act like this and then go about their lives in the world.