Everybody get bloody. By Mark Morford

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Kids! Click here for brutal, nonstop misery and pain!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/01/07/notes010709.DTL&nl=fix

I do not know you. I do not know your temperament or your cosmic calibration or what angle of disposition governs your very being. Not yet, anyway.

I do not know, therefore, whether or not your heart allows or enjoys or for some ungodly reason really, really loves to wallow in relentless images of human beings either bloody, exploded, weeping, dead, limbless, drowned, terrified, on fire, butchered or malnourished or maimed or otherwise suffering in searing, tragic pain in every corner of the world at all times everywhere.

Is that you? Are you salivating at the prospect of such a cruel pageant? Do you wish at all times to be surrounded by images of woe and distress and heartwarming defenestration? Because if so -- and there must be quite a lot of you, really -- have I got a photo montage for you. A few, actually.

I stumbled on such a pageant recently. It was, if I recall, about 800 photographs taken by assorted shooters from the Reuters new agency, all gathered into a little online flipbook of incredible, relentless agony and posted somewhere on Yahoo for your viewing and cringing pleasure. Do you want to see it? No? Good. ...