Things that are odd to me

This week, in the news, has made me have the thought of how odd or how surreal more than once or made me wonder what some people are thinking.

1. I have never understood mothers who choose their criminal boyfriends over their children. This is not a new thought, just a renewed one with that missing little girl who was taken by her mother and her sex offender boyfriend. When the little girl was found, the mom made some comment about how she loved the sex-offender boyfriend and knew she would do anything for him. I don’t understand mothers who will put their children in danger for some man and when it comes down to a decision, they choose the man. What is up with that. I think (soapbox time) if for any reason your children are removed from your custody and it is not found to be a huge mistake, you are immediately sterilized so you can’t have any more children to endanger.

2. The reaction over Michael Jackson’s death is strange to me. While I had this sense of someone I knew had died, another part of me said, “You didn’t know Michael Jackson.” I am a fan of his music. His life outside that is of no concern to me. Yes he was creepy. He had an unnatural fondness for little boys. But he was a celebrity that I didn’t know personally. I am not going to miss Michael because I didn’t know him. He was not a friend, he was not a loved one. He was some famous guy who the whole world watched enter into an ultimately fatal downward spiral. I feel bad for him and his family for that because no one should have to go through that period, much less in the public eye. I feel bad for his kids. Having lost my father when he was still relatively young (Ironically, he was 50 as well when he died), I don’t wish that on any child. But, the part about Michael I love, is still available– his music.
I do not understand those everyday fan people who have cried because of this. Maybe it is because I do not deal with death that way, especially for a complete stranger.

3. I think it is odd that more people are concerned with the fact that the South Carolina governor had an affair than the fact that he just up and disappeared. I personally do not care who any politician is sleeping with. If it were our governor, I would be more concerned that the leader of the state just up and left and didn’t tell anyone he was leaving. That throws state government in an impending state of chaos. Forget who he was sleeping with, someone needed to know he was out of pocket.

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