Got up at 7:30 today. Well, actually I didn’t pull myself out of bed till just after 8:00.

We have barrel cactuses with flowers blooming on top of them. There’s one with yellow flowers and one with reddish-orange flowers. I got a shot of the reddish-orange one. The yellow one wasn’t as nice, and there were bees hanging around it, so I didn’t want to hang around there.

Last night I saw a documentary that was quite disturbing and only went to enforce just how fucked up and unfair the law is. A man killed his fiancé and everyone knew it, too. They had the body and all kinds of evidence. They also had testimony from this guy’s ex, who took pictures of the murder and helped him bury the body. But even so, and to everyone’s utter disbelief, the predominantly male jury acquitted the cock (right before Christmas, the time juries are most likely to acquit). Then, after a while, the pictures of the murder were discovered. However, despite the now more than obvious evidence, they couldn’t retry the cock, cuz of this insane law called the Double Jeopardy law, which prohibits people from being tried twice for the same crime. All he did time for was for perjury. They gave him 10 years, minus 2 if he’d publicly confess to the killing, then minus another 2 for the time he already served while awaiting trial, then minus any more time off he can get for good behavior. Meanwhile, the female, who only took pictures and helped dispose of the body got 5 years, while this cock will never do a day’s time for the murder he committed.

It’s a wonderful world we live in, huh? And the thing about it is that it doesn’t have to be this way. Life doesn’t have to be so unfair and so wrong. We can’t stop God from wreaking havoc he’s gonna wreak on the world and the people in it, but with a little common sense, all people have to do is not write such stupid laws, and write the laws we do need. But the lawmakers are pretty much males, so what do you expect? Stupid people do stupid things. It’d be so simple to right a lot of the world’s wrongs that I wonder if society wants life to be so unfair and fucked up. But what did I learn from this show? What I already knew – that if you’re female and if you’re charged with a felony, you’re going down. Yes, perps have more rights than victims, but only if you’re male. The laws were written by males for males.