Humanity fail

And now, because this is the world we live in and this is how some people move through it now, apparently ...

This just in from Los Angeles: The L.A. County sheriff confessed yesterday that eight deputies allegedly took and/or shared graphic cellphone photos of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash scene.

"We identified the deputies involved, they came to the station on their own and had admitted they had taken them and they had deleted them," L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told NBA News. "And we're content that those involved did that."

And because this is the world we live in and this is how some people move through it now, the Blob's response to that is this: "Yeaaah, mayyy-be."

Because somehow I think some of those photos, or others, are going to show up on social media at some point, social media being the mindless, soulless beast it is.

I hope I'm wrong. I surely do.

But these things tend to have the half-life of plutonium 239, deleted but still drifting aimlessly somewhere in the Cloud or the Crab Nebula or some mystic Realm of 1,000 Likes. And people who have access to those Realms, some of them, possess the souls of dust mites.

Proof of this, of course, being those eight deputies. I'd like to say what they allegedly did speaks to something larger about how technology has desensitized us to our fellow humans' pain, and how our national leaders trade on that desensitization to advance soulless agendas. But instead I'll settle for this, and excuse the profanity:

What a bunch of assholes.