I've said before, mostly on Facebook, there's so many times when I see real headlines that make me think I'm reading the sarcastic, witty and very funny "The Onion" fake media. Today was one of them, from a local source:
Seeing-Eye Dog Needs Surgery To Remove Tumor
And my response is "Really? Are you kidding me?"
KMBC News right now has this up as one of their lead stories, as shown on Yahoo! News.
This stuns me.
As a people, we seem so engaged and preoccupied, time and again, with stories about someone's dog or cat, like this story.
But what's our response for the woman on the street corner, who has diabetes and one blind eye and who hurts all over?
Or the Vietnam Vet?
Or the Iraq Vet?
We're that interested in somebody's cat or dog when so many of our fellow human beings either don't have enough to eat or are homeless or are out of their minds because they suffer schizophrenia and our society doesn't care enough to see to their hospital care?
Does this make ANY sense, except in either a humor magazine or a bizarro world?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a "pet person." I love animals. I also think they should be taken care of.
It just seems we care for a great deal of animals at great expense while we let a great deal of humanity go by the wayside and in a lot of ways.
I don't get our priorities.
Links: http://www.theonion.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_onion
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