{"id":921,"date":"2025-01-17T21:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T02:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2025-01-17T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T02:33:13","slug":"oh-the-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the Humanity?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re only a few days into the new year and I&#8217;m ready to go into hibernation&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Without going into details, I&#8217;ve been doing jury duty where we make decisions if there&#8217;s enough evidence for a case to go to trail &#8212; first degree murder cases, sex with a minor cases, or cases involving use of deadly force by police.  Some of the cases I&#8217;ve heard are interesting &#8212; you get to play a detective, like one on TV &#8212; but for the most part, it&#8217;s the dregs of humanity.<br><br>I guess I&#8217;m ruled too much by my rational side, that with some of these cases, the decisions made by people just blows my mind.  As the events unfold, I get more and more disgusted&#8230;<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I tried reading this <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/2025.01.13-120214\/https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/2025.01.13-120214\/https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html\">article<\/a> in the New York Magazine on Neil Gaiman.  I couldn&#8217;t read the whole article; I started getting sick part of the way through it.  Allegations against Neil came out last year, but the graphic details in the article just turned my stomach&#8230; And then reading comments on Reddit just compounded my feelings.<br><br>I&#8217;m torn.  I love many of Neil&#8217;s works.  Based on the accusations, drawn out divorce &amp; custody battle with his wife, and more people coming out against Neil, I&#8217;m guessing the article accurately depicts Neil and his predatory behavior.  Where a lot of cases we listened to on jury duty were more ruled by passions &amp; emotions, Neil&#8217;s behavior sounds down right thoughtful, self-delusion, &amp; psychotic.  <br><br>This also means, out of the British comic invasion, I&#8217;m disgusted by the personal lives of Neil and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/jul\/13\/women-speak-out-about-warren-ellis-transmetropolitan\">Warren Ellis<\/a> for very similar reasons&#8230;<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And to top things off, there was also this article about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/orlando\/comments\/1i0kqt4\/what_an_absolutely_disgusting_stain_on_the\/\">Southern Nights<\/a> in Orlando.  I just to drive by the club on the way to bowling, when our league bowled on Colonial Lanes.  Not to mention, our league had our end of season party there, to hand out awards and cash.  <br><br>I don&#8217;t know if it was in that Reddit post or in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/orlando\/comments\/1i0vhae\/southern_nights_just_posted_this_on_instagram\/\">another one<\/a>, but there was a link to court document\/evidence collected against the owners, including transcripts&#8230; Another article that I could only read a few paragraphs of &amp; instantly became disgusted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;wake me when January is over, maybe February will be better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Oh%2C+the+Humanity%3F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=921\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re only a few days into the new year and I&#8217;m ready to go into hibernation&#8230; &#8230;wake me when January is over, maybe February will be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YMpv-eR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":443,"url":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=443","url_meta":{"origin":921,"position":0},"title":"Interesting Stories","author":"mhuffman","date":"February 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Today as I was driving into work, I started thinking about what stories do I like the most. 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