Displaying items by tag: decency matters

Some days, it’s just tough to process the world we live in.

I was sitting in my home theater yesterday afternoon, watching my officially playoff-eliminated Minnesota Vikings finally righting their ship on Sunday Night Football, when my phone started beeping.

Friends in the industry were reaching out to say that something was going on in Brentwood, California.

Something terrible was happening at Rob Reiner’s house.

Two bodies had been found, apparently murdered, and their ages matched those of Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.

That maybe their troubled son was involved.

And… in that moment, your brain kind of goes numb.

I mean, here I am trying to enjoy the final moments of a forgettable football season. I’ve got my cats sitting with me, we’re chilling, just enjoying an afternoon.

And then the seemingly perpetual ugliness of the real world intrudes yet again, as it so often does now here in the 21st century.

This news… news of multiple shootings around the planet. It didn’t used to be like this.

For those of you who are younger, the worst of humanity didn’t used to get shoved into your consciousness 24-7-365 by algorithms that never—even when they pretend to—actually work on behalf of you.

I’m sure that today many of you are—like me—struggling with just how to process this news. And God forbid you go online, because there are plenty of people there trying to tell you how you should process it. And it’s ugly man. [Read on here...]