In what seems to be a disturbing trend right now, women are grossly in the minority.
In one of the book's most disturbing scenes, right after rescuing a drugged Krista from a boy who wanted to rape her by the train tracks, Aaron sexually assaults her.
I guess in hindsight it should be more disturbing, but right after we left the company of the Pork Queen and the two-day-old piglet I moseyed over to the Iowa Pork Producers Association which was conveniently located in the Iowa Pork Tent, to get one of the aforementioned pork chops on a stick.
Liberals have pointed to disturbing right-wing violent rhetoric, like Sarah Palin's infamous crosshair map and Glenn Beck's daily panic sessions, as bound to have consequences eventually.
It also shed a light on Pakistan's complicated and disturbing LGBT rights landscape, where trans people technically enjoy better rights than in many places around the world, but in practice face violence and stigma.
The moral argument for renewed U.S. support for peace should be evident, given the disturbing human rights record of the last decade.
The United States Embassy in Hanoi said in a statement that it was "deeply troubled" by the convictions and called them "part of a disturbing human rights trend in Vietnam".
"It's unfortunate that the Bush administration's disturbing human rights record means that the United States is today hardly a shoo-in for election to the council," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.
But behind the lofty talk, the Chen case had intensified to a point on Friday morning where it was clear that Mrs. Clinton and her aides had only a day to find a solution, unless she was prepared to leave China with a very disturbing human rights case hanging over her and the Obama administration.
In today's Reno address, Democratic nominee Clinton criticized Donald Trump's "embrace of the disturbing alt-right political philosophy" as giving a "national megaphone" to hate groups.
