This was a bad week for us.
It is always sad to write of the death of a young man or woman.
But this was harder because we knew this boy.
Seth was a friend of our son Arieh. They were sometimes on the same teams and his mother and grandmother were friends of ours.
We exchanged greeting at football games saw them in the halls of school.
We featured them in stories when they took on the School District and cheered when they won.
And no the boy we watched grow up to be a fine man is dead.
There should be another word for accident.
Somehow it simply doesn’t convey the sadness we feel at the loss of this young man.
Today we heard the news that child killer and child rapist Samir Kutnar was killed.
He crushed a four year old Israeli girl’s head in 1979. Freed in a prisoner swap he was supplied with young Arab boys to molest by Hezbollah as he planned terror attacks mostly on Syrians for the past three years.
Now he is dead, justice is served.
Of course the beast Kutnar’s death has been over shadowed by the killing of Cecil the Lion.
In fact just about everything has been over shadowed by the killing of Cecil the Lion.
Never mind the police killing of unarmed citizens, or the debate on the Iran nuke deal or the Greek bail out or the fact that Pluto has some new photos.
Everyone wants a piece of that idiot dentist who shot Cecil with a bow.
We agree it was not cool but he paid over 50 grand for the hunt. That dough got spread around quite a bit in Zimbabwe and there were some full human bellies in southern Africa because of the dental moron.
Is it wrong to kill wild animals?
Not really as long as it isn’t to extinction.
Yeah it probably makes a lot of useful idiots feel good about themselves calling for the head of another doofus but that is about it.
And while the world is getting the vapors over poor Cecil and the poorer dentist who killed him, the happiest people must be the folks of Planned Parenthood who don’t have to talk about selling baby human parts.