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Our moral outrage

 Only lasts a few days. Remember when Puerto Rico couldn’t get power or clean water and we were all outraged?  Now it’s two months later and have we heard anything lately?  They are still U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico and they still don’t have power or clean water. Remember when 20 school children were gunned down in their school?  That was in the news nonstop for days, but have you heard anything lately, and has there been any action in response? Our current moral outrage is sexual harassment/abuse/assault.  All of a sudden, resolution is swift and sure.  Multiple claims against you and you’re out.  Immediately.  You’re fired.  Unless you’re a politician.  Then it gets debated.  Admit to it and you’re toast, but deny it and apparently you can drag it out forever.  You can even get elected and maybe re-elected to office.  The moral outrage of politicians about reports of sexual improprieties, would be comical if the subject were not so serious.  We’re incensed if the perpetrator happens to be from the other political party.  Otherwise, pretty much silence. Not all levels of sexual impropriety are equal.  They don’t all deserve the same level of retribution.  Sexual assault is different from sexual harassment, but our newfound consciousness of all forms of sexual impropriety should last more than just a few news cycles. Believe the women. 
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Kai the hatchet wielding hitchhiker

 Did he really kill that guy in Fresno with a hatchet?  It seems unlikely that if he did he’d be standing on the street right after, speaking with a television reporter, instead of being held in police custody.  It seemed like he cruised through that experience then went on his rambling ways. But another google search reveals more.  Kai isn’t really from West Virginia, he’s from Western Canada.  The guy he hit with the hatchet didn’t really die, but was arrested.  The initial interview with Kai on the street was in February 2013.  He went on to be featured on the Colbert Report and Jimmy Kimmel Live.  But by May of 2013 he had been arrested in Philadelphia for the murder of an elderly man (he claims sexually assaulted him) in New Jersey.  He has been in jail ever since and is still awaiting trial. I was hoping for some fun or funny follow-ups; more wild, crazy, and entertaining stories.  I guess I’ll have to wait until Kai gets out of jail, which may be never.