I've been slacking, please forgive me Sir Jason Raia.

I read a horribly disturbing story about a man slaying his family in The New York Times today. A 20 year old man in Myakka City, Florida was arrested Sunday for the slayings of his parents, younger brother and elderly grandmother. All of their bodies were found bludgeoned to death in their family home. Richard Edgar Henderson Jr. admitted to detectives that he had beaten his family to death with a pipe on Thanksgiving evening. His motives for these brutal killings are not clear at this time. Henderson is being charged with four counts of murder and is being jailed without a bond.

This story reminded me of a well-known rhyme that went a little something like, "Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one." Lizzie Borden was a New England woman who was tried for the brutal axe murders of her father and stepmother in the late 19th century. On August 4, 1892, Lizzie "discovered" the dead bodies of her parents in their Fall River, MA. household. She was put on trial for the murders, during which she claimed her innocence. Lizzie fainted and won much sympathy from the all-male jury, who acquitted her on June 20, 1893. Although she was acquitted, many historians agree that Lizzie was guilty due to incriminating evidence, such as a bloody dress she burnt three days after the murder, and the fact that she didn't get along with her parents very well.

After reading about both of these topics, I have come to the conclusion that people need to learn to reconcile with their family members reasonably. Future advice for those who get in arguments with their family - Take them out for a nice steak [or salad if you are a vegetarian] dinner rather than taking their LIVES. Talk it over, keep your cool. Put the axe/blunt object down.