There’s some times when you’ve just had enough.  I’m not a violent person, and I don’t like people who say things like “just blow the #$!&(% off the map!” as a way of dealing with the complex issues we face in the world, but sometimes, we’ve all just been pushed to the limit.

Aug. 10, 2007, 7:22PM
Woman ‘went crazy’ in attack on karaoke singer

Associated Press

SEATTLE — A woman attacked a karaoke singer belting out Coldplay on Thursday night, telling him he “sucked” before she pushed and punched him to get him to stop singing, bar staff said.

The man was singing “Yellow” when it happened.

“It took three or four of us to hold her down,” bartender Robert Willmette said.

When she was escorted outside, the 21-year-old woman “went crazy,” Willmette said, throwing punches at him and others, including an off-duty police officer.

Patrol officers and detectives then arrived at the neighborhood bar and blocked off the street, which inflamed the woman’s rage even more, a police report said. Before police could handcuff the woman, she headbutted the off-duty officer at least twice.

The off-duty officer was treated for cuts, scrapes and bruises.

After treatment for injuries, the woman was booked into the King County jail for investigation of assault. She was also held on a warrant issued for a previous theft charge.

According to bartender notes, she had only a single shot of Jägermeister.

Although I can’t see inviting someone with such a volitile temper over to my house, I have to say, I do believe the defense could make a pretty good case that she was provoked.

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In purusing the internet, which I do from time to time, I came across this website: http://www.amifatornot.com/index.php

So… being morbidly curious about all things weird on the internet, I clicked.  Now everyone and their ginger cat has heard of ‘Hot or Not’… but ‘Am I Fat?’  Are we really all so insecure that we need strangers to tell us whether or not we’re fat?

So… guess what.  Most of the people on that site (I got bored after 6 clicks so bear with me if I’m making sweeping statements here) are just NORMAL looking people.

It’s a sad testament to the insecurity of 95% of the population.  What’s even sadder is a couple of those people I saw on that site were downright SKINNY.

But then there’s the other side.. the part of US that judges other people based on how fat or skinny they are, whether or not they have nice hair, or their clothes are just right, etc etc etc.  We spend endless amounts of time primping ourselves up, but make sure to point out everyone else’s flaws, just in case someone didn’t notice that we are oh so much more stylish, sophisticated and svelt.

You know when we’re born, and should we be lucky enough to live a long time, when we die, we all sorta look like some variation of an elder winston churchill.  Whoever tells you babies are cute has some hormonal thing going on.  They’re tubby and squashed and flubby… and they scream.  But we like them for what they represent, so we call it cute.  Anyway, birth, death, we all look like varying shades of raisins and for somewhere between 20 minutes to 20 years in the middle we’re really quite appealing. 

Considering what a fractional moment it is in the lifetime of a human being, you’d think we’d have better questions to ask than: ‘Am I Fat Or Not’  How about: ‘Am I Judgemental.com’ or ‘Have I wasted my life and emotions on a corporation that can’t love me back.net’ or ‘Do I have to call other people fat/dumb/losers just to feel okay about myself.org’.

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