More dysfunctionality:
Prayers Replace Parties to Mark 2004’s End

PARIS (AP) — For Sweden’s prime minister, celebrating New Year’s after the Asian tsunami felt “completely wrong.” Paris, its gay heart heavy with the tragedy, draped black cloth along a favorite haunt for romantic reveling - the Champs-Elysees.

Yes, without a doubt, celebration at this point in time seems completely wrong, and that’s understandable.

“We are still mourning. Let’s pray together and hopefully God will not give us another disaster.”

But THIS is the part that always fucking kills me. Why pray, unless it’s for some clear purpose: “Please, God, please don’t kill us”? That’s not something you say out of love, for chrissake.