Dear Auntie Annie: Is everybody going crazy? Mom throws her kids off the Sellwood Bridge. Dad shoots and kills his two kids in Hillsboro. Man walks into a Kansas church and shoots an abortion doc to death. It's news, of course, but what kind of news?
Dear Kind: As Will wrote: "'Tis today's news, yet tis every day's news." Killing children has been the perogative of parents from the time we got up on two legs. And this morning, we learn that the doc-shooter (excuse me, the accused doc-shooter) is an unmedicated schizophrenic. Part of the problem is that the MSM doesn't like to talk about mental illness for what it is; too many editors still think it's an "excuse" for bad behavior because that's how the courts treat it. Writing about mental illness in a healthy way, no pun intended, is not rewarded. It's always an uphill climb. But it must be climbed. We're the only ones who can make sense of it -- if we're willing to look at it straight in the fact. Time to go now -- gotta take my meds that keep me from screaming.
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