Beyond Rivalry

I realise lots of good things happened today, all over the world. But checking CNN headline news this evening, here's what I found:

Bus passenger beheaded seat mate, witness says, in Manitoba, Canada. More, including identity of killer and victim, but still no motive. (2 Aug update: It gets worse.)

Preacher killed wife, stuffed body in freezer, police say, near Mobile, Alabama. He did this in Nov. 2004, when his wife caught him abusing his daughter, and he hid his wife's body with the help of the teenaged daughter he had been abusing. He's apparently been preaching ever since. (His resemblance to E.T. is remarkable ...)

Killer 'photographed mutilated girlfriend', in Goiania, Brazil. He dismembered her, photographed her with his cell phone, and stuffed her torso into a suitcase. The girlfriend was going to "tell his parents he was a drug dealer addicted to cocaine." More.

Sexual assault in military 'jaw-dropping,' lawmaker says. Forty-one percent of women at a veterans hospital reported being sexually assaulted while in the military and twenty-nine percent report being raped during their military service.

As the Wicked Witch says, "What a world, what a world ..." -- but the witch was bemoaning the loss of her wickedness to a good little girl who was just trying to save her scarecrow friend ...