Cluelessness is where you find it — everywhere!

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is when the ignorant remain mute.

When I read the ending of Lawrence Mower’s story in today’s paper — the one about the 14-year-old girl who had called in the false domestic violence report to which Metro officer James Manor was responding when he was killed in a high-speed collision — my jaw dropped.

It was such a telling scene. It was at once a glimpse of one young girl and a sweeping panoramic view into a generational abyss.

When told by her mother that the police officer responding to her 9-1-1 call had died, the girl blinked, then said, "I'm hungry. Did you eat my doughnut?"

That is how the story ended.

But there are those out there even more oblivious.

A person with rather limited reading comprehension skill, who signed off with a vulgar imperative, sent reporter Mower an e-mail, copying me a several others.

He begins by asking, “What the hell is wrong with you and the police?” and ends with this observation, “It is people like you who make our whole society screwed up by trying to scapegoat or demonize people before all of the facts are released. You are adding to the problem and ruining the lives of people. Whomever told that girl that she was the reason the cop died should apologize to the girl or lose their job. It was wrong, immature, and irresponsible. You should be ashamed!!!!!!!”

For further exploration of the abyss, I invite you to read the comments appended to Mower’s story. At last check there were nearly 70.