mad world

it seems the world is currently populated by a hell of a lot of selfish idiots. North Korea: do they care that if it really was the bomb we think they set off, water resources et al. will have been contaminated? do they?? and the mother in Brasil, who buried her live newborn baby (with placenta and all) in the mud, did she care about its life?? thank goodness someone found the baby before it died! and the four kids in France, did they really need to gang up on, and hit the little girl who was eating a sandwich during Ramadan??

compared to a lot of people, my childhood was pretty rosy, but i really doubt my kids' childhood will be just as nice...