For every feel-good moment of sunshiny contentment:
An old lady throws a kitten in dumpster.
A young girl joyfully drowns puppies.
Teenagers kick a pregnant girl bloody on a crowded bus, and people just look away and ignore it.

Stories Spilling into Personalities

Vigilante Police group "The Punishers" outfitted themselves with a familiar skull emblem.

Meta-Fictional Reality or Out-of-Control Cosplay, either way, there has been an escalation...
"Real Life Superheros". On Facebook and the News.
And the next Logical Step.

Open Source Batman

Hometown Dead Meat

Last week thousands of birds and fish died in Arkansas, their bodies falling from the sky over Beebe and washing up along the shore of the Arkansas River inexplicably.
This is happening all over the world and in increasing frequency. However, it's an old phenomena, and stranger things fall from the sky all the time (fish, frogs, crabs, strange gray jelly and living red ooze).

"Science is struggling to explain these things. These are examples of the surprises that nature can still bring...More research is needed,"

say The experts, who also, of course, claim the instances are totally unrelated, though they have no idea what did cause either sudden die off, and they assure us it's nothing to worry about for even a moment. At the same time they also maintain that "this is a classic example of freak events coinciding..."
How fucking scientific.
These things do happen all the time, therefore they can be both totally commonplace and a freak coincidence. Nothing is connected because it's always just coincidence when measured in terms of specialist modern science, especially a few paid and pressured mouthpieces, and don't you dare mention the Oil Spill Disaster that happened recently and not too far away, because that's all magically gone now, so stop bringing it up....