What's awful is that no one is really talking about Marissa Alexander, the woman who got twenty years for firing warning shots (in her own home) to intimidate her abusive husband. How is this the country we live in?

I've actually seen lots of people talking about this, but that may be the bias of the news I watch and the people I follow on Twitter and Facebook.

I am so heartbroken this morning. Trayvon was just like my basketball sons. The dozens of basketball kids that DH has driven home from practices and games for years because he knew it wasn't safe for them to walk home. I can't even type about it without crying. They can expect to be hugged hard as I see them in the next few weeks, not that they will find that unusual.

I'm listening to news, but may have to turn it off. I want to hope for some justice in the federal courts or civil courts, but the pain of the failure of court's justice is too blinding to see through at the moment.

I have about a hundred pages of A Storm of Swords to finish today and then will dive into A Feast for Crows. I think I need to bury myself in treachery and murder that is fiction for a time. It is so much less painful.

Timelies all!

The news...ugh, just awful.

I've actually seen lots of people talking about this, but that may be the bias of the news I watch and the people I follow on Twitter and Facebook.

I meant more publicly, in the media. I do see lots of *us* talking about it, but it kills me that there aren't people making more noise about what happened to this woman.

I think I need to bury myself in treachery and murder that is fiction for a time. It is so much less painful.

Very true.

I meant more publicly, in the media. I do see lots of *us* talking about it, but it kills me that there aren't people making more noise about what happened to this woman.

Melissa Harris Perry has brought up this case many times, and I believe Rachael Maddow has too.

Oh! Well, that's good, I guess?

Melissa Harris Perry has brought up this case many times, and I believe Rachael Maddow has too.

Do they count, though? And I mean that pessimistically. Are they bringing the case to light to people who don't know about injustice like this, or are they telling people who already know how the system is broken?

Because I have to believe people need to know still.

Skimming tumblr told me more about Monteith than that awkward CNN article (like, hey, Canadian!). I can only imagine CNN was taken by surprise and didn't end up dipping into canned obituaries for their [link]

Do they count, though? And I mean that pessimistically. Are they bringing the case to light to people who don't know about injustice like this, or are they telling people who already know how the system is broken?

I can't really answer that. I watch those shows primarily because I want to hear about those cases and news stories I wouldn't otherwise know about, but I'm guessing if you don't want to know about such things, it is still pretty easy to remain ignorant.

I'm guessing if you don't want to know about such things, it is still pretty easy to remain ignorant.

There are also a lot of people who still get their news strictly from Diane Sawyer every weeknight at 6:30, too. So if she's not talking about it, they're not hearing it.

And I'm not trying to take away responsibility for following world events, but the current 24/7 media saturation makes *everything* available in some form, and it's a lot to take in. It's why I turn off sometimes, and just get my news from you guys.

If you don't know there's important news that Diane Sawyer isn't telling you, how do you know to go to someone else to get it? That's what gets news to the water cooler and into hands beyond the people who are already dissatisfied with big media.