Economically tight times can increase the pressure on an already tense personal relationship, as in this absolutely despicable case of domestic abuse: WJXT reports that a 77-year-old man beat up his 74-year-old wife, “because he was upset about the high cost of gas for driving her to and from dialysis treatments.” Signs of the times on the road to hell.
(Thanks to ag!)
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@theblackdog: A common misconception. The wikipedia article puts it like this: “News stories published after the trial, however, frequently reported the defense arguments inaccurately, claiming that the defense had presented junk food as the cause of White’s depression and/or diminished capacity, instead of symptomatic of and perhaps exacerbating an existing depression.”
Put shortly, the junk-food binging was a *symptom* and maybe *exacerbator* of his “diminished capacity” (a valid legal term), not the *cause* like so many people think.