TV kinda sucks.

Well... it's nice that the Democrats won a race or two, and Rumsfield certainly needed to go. I'm happy about those things.

Somehow I wound up watching a "news" show tonight... dateline or something similar... and it was just awful. Fascinating and awful. In a nutshell: A troubled man stalked and then murdered a pretty and popular southern belle.

It was really something.

Amidst all of the craziness of this man's life, it was his cross-dressing and desire to become a woman that received the most attention in the report.

Ain't that America.

Then, at the end of the report, it was noted that DA could have sought the death penalty after the murderer's confession, but the family objected. I thought that was a positive turn in the storyline, but then they cut to victim's sister, who stated that they'd decided to not pursue the death penalty because the victim had been a private person who wouldn't have wanted pictures of the crime scene on display during trial. Otherwise... ?

I'm not picking on the family. They've suffered a terrible loss, of course.

The level of public discourse is so LOW.

Cross dressers are dangerous and murderers should be murdered (unless the victim is a private person).

I'm going to watch election coverage now. Maybe it'll cheer me up!