Another day, another mass murder taking place somewhere across the fruited plane. One wonders where this national rash of mass family murders has come from. It seems I cannot turn on the TV, the radio or pick up a newspaper without learning the fate of some group of children and their unlucky custodial parent, aunt, uncle or grandparent. The 24-hour news networks keep us appraised of all the sordid details. We no longer have to wait until 11 to find out the who, what, when and where. It is as if there is something in the national water forcing the unhinged among us to step over the edge. The edge has been slowing moving towards all of us over the last few years. It isn't a big a step as it used to be.

In these days of instant celebrity and a national obsession with victimhood, it is not surprising that eventually a liberal group or two would come forward and decide that a particular mass murderer deserved their unwavering support. For one rash of killings we have the National Organization of Women and the American Civil Liberties Union uniting with professional whiners Katie Couric and Rosie O'Donnell to raise money to defend our latest member of the killer elite.

It is interesting that the target of this national hand wringing would be the killer of five little children. After all, everything liberals do is "for the children." One would think that a woman who murdered five members of the group used by the political left to fleece the productive class, would be at the bottom of their sympathy list. Make no mistake. It is a list. These groups do not go to bat for just any mass murderer. They weigh all the pros and cons first. There have been other female child killers who have not received the blessing of the liberals. Susan Smith drowned her children in a car…. but she blamed a member of another victim group, automatically taking her off the "A" list. Then there is Darlie Lynn Routier, who sits on death row convicted of stabbing two of her kids to death in the family living room. Of course, she didn't have the proper demeanor of a victim. Neither sad enough, nor crazed enough.

The other mass killers of late have been men. To the victim industry, it doesn't matter why men kill their families. It is always the fault of the NRA and/or the oppressive patriarchal hierarchy of our society that makes them inherently unworthy of the various liberal groups selective compassion. This leaves the hapless Houston woman, Andrea Yates, who dragged her five little kids one at a time into the family bath and snuffed out their young lives as they kicked and cried for mamma to stop. Andrea is perfect. Crazy enough to leave doubt in the minds of the masses and married to a man who allowed her to continue to home school her kids despite mounting evidence of mental instability. NOW and the ACLU, giving a nod to the NEA (National Education eradication Association) would tell us that home schooling is a mental disorder in and of itself.