SOME SEMI-HUMOROUS,SEMI-TRAGIC ASPECTS OF AMERICAN LIFE TODAY:

---If you search for a new roommate, you must be prepared to spend about $20 per month throughout your search period for temporary enrollment in an online criminal-background-check service that helps you decide which of the dozens of respondents to your roommate-wanted posting are the ones you are willing to actually meet with in person for an actual exploratory interview.

--The well-intended American citizen would naturally like to report to his local police department any factual evidence he obtains that someone else in that city is allegedly consuming an illicit drug. However, it is virtually impossible for a law-abiding American citizen to know what heroin smells like or looks like, in order to report that it was, in fact, heroin that he just observed someone consuming on the streets of that city. 

--Vigilant Americans have an urgent need for an Illicit Drug Awareness workshop that would help them to immediately identify the appearance and scent or odor from each of the 20 leading illicit drugs being consumed in their own city, so that those vigilant Americans could then file an accurate crime report with their local police department. However, I myself have not heard of any city in the United States that currently offers a police-supervised "Drug-Sniffing Workshop" in which vigilant, law-abiding citizens attending that event learn about the appearance and odor from each of the most prevalent or injurious illicit drugs being consumed in their city. I would welcome the opportunity to attend an event of that type during my leisuretime, which would make it easier for me to file accurate anti-illicit-drug reports with my local law-enforcement agency during my leisuretime.

---Profanity is so widespread these days that some Americans attend church primarily because they want to be assured of a profanity-free time period at least once per week. "I attend church not to go to Heaven, but because I find it so hellish to be hearing profanity outside of this church all week. A profanity-free haven of this type is much appreciated, even if it only lasts an hour or two for me every week."

---Road rage by motorists is alarmingly common on the roadways of the United States these days. However, I myself cannot recall having heard about any "Road Rage Treatment Specialist" who actually provides therapeutic counseling services for motorists who are addicted to shouting at other motorists with the greatest of malevolence and apparent hatred.

---Americans take pride in their ability to identify emerging societal malaises. Despite this, it often seems that we are behind in actually providing a treatment or cure for the most recent emerging societal malaise. For instance, is there such a thing as a Road Rage Serial Behind-the-Wheel Killer, and if so, what should be the "treatment program" for that type of societal malaise, aside from getting the offender convicted in a court of law and then incarcerated?

 It seems likely that there have been cases of drivers who were blameworthy in one motor-vehicle accident that fatally injured another motorist, and who then repeat that hate crime or serial-homicide crime while behind the wheel a matter of days or weeks later.

Should the state penal code in Texas, for instance, cite "Serial Killer Behind the Wheel" as a category of hate crime for which punishment by the criminal justice system is authorized by that state?