About an hour ago a White guy from our neighborhood rang our doorbell. He tells me that he doesn't have his son for Halloween, so he is taking him around the neighborhood tonight. His son, dressed as Scooby-Doo is roughly the same age as my middle child.
Lucky for them, my wife chose to get Halloween candy a week ago. I grab the bag and my wife asks who was at the door. Told her the scenario and she seemed annoyed that someone would trick-or-treat on an unofficial day.
The kid ended up grabbing two Twizzelers and gave me a grin. Dad was grateful and shook my hand.
Maybe its just a guy or dad thing...good on him for trying to make fun memories with his son. Shoe on the other foot, I surely would not want some bitchy response while trying to do something special for my kids.
They find pleasure in hurting and in the pain of others. They literally can not empathize with the people that they hurt. This is the oldest reference I've seen to the "what if you didn't have breakfast" meme.
I have a suspicion that the low IQ of Aztec-types from south of the border yields a similar empathic deficit.
Washington Post editorial page editor (((Fred Hiatt))), a bloodthirsty neocon who used his position to shill America into the war in Iraq and push forced vaccines, died on Monday after suffering from sudden cardiac arrest.
