Have I a morbid fascination for bad news?

And is there any other kind of news? I sometimes wonder, don't you?

Another senseless killing, this time at the L.A. Airport, but Hey! Let's hear it for the NRA!.... A headmaster at a private school busted for child porn, like there isn't enough of the adult kind to go around these days on the Internet....and a headline underneath that proclaiming that the Taliban needs a new leader now,
like as if they're accepting applications and doing interviews for the position.
And why do all those guys seem to be channeling Genghis Khan? Do they all aspire to being dead for 786 years like he is? One wonders...

Sometimes, I just feel like shouting "Stop the world! I want to get off! Let me out of here! You bastards are all crazy!" Do you ever feel like that? At times like that, I'm absolutely convinced that the human race is a failed experiment, and
Whoever did this regrets it...

When I was younger, and knew it all, I used to snicker at those who were talking about "the last days", or "we're nearing The End", like they had some kind of inside information none of the rest of us could discover from the same sources presumably they were using. Now, I'm not so sure....sometimes, I even think it might not be such a bad idea after all. Just bring on the Revelations trick of the Heavens and the Earth being rolled up like a scroll, with fire and brimstone, and surround sound, in 3D, something like what happened on Mars about three and a half billions of years ago, and let's just start all over again....

Just Ug and Mug, those intrepid cavemen, with their merry little band of almost humans, learning how to burn vegetables and small critters over an open fire, to make them easier to chew, and maybe taste a little better. Never mind more digestible; that wouldn't be known or understood for millennia yet.... just the oft dreamed of 'simple life', like Raquel shared with John Richardson in "One Million Years B.C.", and no, children, this wasn't the story of the early days of our beloved British Columbia..... This was 'B.C.', - Before Catholicism - and that's a
whole other story, so maybe I'd better stop here for now... 

Here's Raquel and John in 'One Million Years B.C.', trying to avoid the dinosaurs while looking for a spot to open the first-ever 'Hooters'.....