August 16, 2009 – Anger

Going over the list of murders in the past few weeks I cannot believe how quickly they are forgotten. Here we’re in one of the strangest waves of killings – a father smothers his daughter to get back at his wife, a mother and daughter barely escape danger as their man is murdered, two people in a gay center are shot to death and the others are battered physically and emotionally. Perhaps there is no real connection between any of these incidents, or the body parts found in the burning garbage can and the Alexander river, but the anger involved in all these murders is one. The sense that violence is the only alternative is the thread.