Look Under "C" for Chutzpah. Not There? Then Look Under "D" For Dipshit Child Murderer My current archenemy is Michelle Gibson of Jackson County, NC. She simultaneously hit two of my pet peeves: child-murdering and child murderers demanding more government money to prevent people like them from murdering children. According to this story Ms. Gibson was working a double-shift at a nursing home while leaving her 8-year old son to broil in the car in the nursing home's parking lot. Like an 8-year-old-boy-shaped candle by a flame, the results were quite predictable. The boy died of heat exhaustion and the mother was arrested. So one year later the case goes to trial. The jurors (who currently hold a place in my black heart as second-tier archenemies) decided that "she's suffered enough". Where else do we say that a criminal has suffered enough? I'm sorry I got wasted and ran over your grandmother, but haven't I suffered enough?!. Make no mistake this was a crime. This was not passive negligence. This wasn't turning away for a minute at the mall and having little junior make a mad dash into the Kay-Bee toy store. No this was purposely and willfully putting one's one child into a place where harm was practically inevitable, like letting a kid jump into a shark tank or use the bathroom immediately after Paris Hilton. But still the jurors felt that kids have built-in SPF 2,000 and set her free. This woman, this horrible excuse for a vertebrate let alone a person, has the unmitigated gall to suggest that the fault lies not in the stars but in ourselves. And when I say ourselves I mean the government. She seems to believe that the blood of her and other fricasseed children covers the hands of our elected officials who haven't supplied the funds necessary to cover no-cost, all-hours child care to its citizens. "I'm going to beat the pavement until someone hears what I have to say," she said. "There are other single working mothers out there in the community right now in the same predicament I was in." This is absolutely insane! Why didn't you just go have the kid play in traffic while you were working, at least he would've gotten some fresh air. At what point does stuffing your kid in a car-as-crock-pot for 16 hours qualify as a solution to a predicament? She worked from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. and was shocked to find that there was no 16-hour daycare solution. You don't want daycare you want a goddamn nanny. According to the article North Carolina's governor set aside $20 million dollars for daycare subsidies. To no one surprise advocates who chalk daycare right up there in governmental responsibilities with guaranteeing the pursuit of happiness feel this a mere pittance. It's never enough. There could be free daycare for everyone and they'd probably still complain that there wasn't taxi service to drop the kids to and from their homes. In short, I'd prefer if people who murder their own children would take the money they save by their infanticide and invest in just the tiniest amount of shame before lecturing the rest of us non-murdering folk.