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I like your attitude...

Thanks kindly. And in the interest of being fair to MotleyGirl70, I do understand her sense of horror at this senseless crime. She sees it in stark black and white, with no humor allowed, and I can appreciate that. Women (especially) who read of such stories automatically put themselves into the victims shoes and think "my God, that might have been me in a different life situation", and they're right.

We men on the other hand, don't see the actions of the killer as being a wholesale condemnation of our gender, because fortunately our gender is not like that as a whole. We have our share of bad apples, JUST LIKE our opposite gender does.

Inhumanity in fact, knows NO gender barrier.

But what we see more and more, is what I have long called the "vulgarization/brutalization" of American society, and it started when we evicted God out of our schools and public places, and to fill that vacuum, you can be pretty sure of not being proven wrong if you come to believe that EVIL (meaning Satan himself) was more than happy to take the place of God and our Judeo-Christian values that our Nation was based on.

Now this might sound a little too high brow for a post regarding some putz who killed his wife because he wanted to watch sports on TV, but it is the same mentality that sees no problem with jamming a pair of scissors into the skull of a nearly born infant for a "partial birth abortion", thinks that it is quite OK for the State to starve and dehydrate a woman to death, and this all equates to a cheapening of human life.

So why do we make jokes about so serious a subject?

As one poster already alluded to, it is in fact a self-protective mechanism whether or not we wish to admit it.

It was a terrible crime, the guy deserves the death penalty, and we're going to make jokes about it.

Some might call that the "duality of man".

//Intellectual Pointy-Hat Off