Wednesday In the News
It's either a remarkably odd news day or I am really in a weird mood.
Ok, people. Forget stem cells. Forget deforestation. Let the geneticists and the environmentalists work together to solve this problem for the benefit of all. Time to genetically modify the moose. Awwww, c'mon! It's for Norway! Who wouldn't want to protect the land of the fjords! I mean, think of all the work Slartibartfast put into the design! ;)
Yes! Let's give America's kids adult anti-psychotic drugs at a slightly lower dosage and call it okay! I give it five years before they decide this was a Very Bad Idea. Hey, if a kid is in really bad shape, fine. But it seems to me (for a variety of reasons) that kids in general are getting overstuffed with too many chemicals. They're surrounded by over-processed food and carcinogenic cleaners. Their parents are overworked, harried, stressed. The kids pick it up. Internalize it. Have no coping skills. And we solve this problem by medicating? Here's my solution, in case anyone cares. Sell the SUV that is both the size of a small European nation and requires the budget of one to operate and insure. Cut out at least one of the twenty programs your kids are in. That would be cutting one program per kid. Just because the parent thinks they're omnipresent and a perpetual motion machine doesn't mean the kid has to be as well. For the sake of all that is good, take some of the pressure off your kids, and I bet you a good percentage of the kids end up not actually needing the meds. Heck, some of the parents might not need their meds, either!
We are a sick society, aren't we?
And while I'm on the subject... You know that $40k you got from selling Andorra... er... your freaking Armada? You know the $40k per year you're saving that was previously spent on gas, insurance and programs? Yeah. How about quitting that extra job you had to take to finance it? Or if, as I suspect, you take your identity from your work (which is killing you, btw), and you just. can't. quit... consider putting that money to use. Investments, college funds, or *gasp* some deserving charity. You know, save the whales, save the fjords, genetically alter a moose, plant a rainforest, feed a village in Africa, feed the guy on your local offramp, do SOMETHING.
And here's one that would have made John Adams and Thomas Jefferson cringe. Does this sound dangerously close to double jeopardy to anyone else? (Hey, man, I know you already served your time for shooting the guy. 40 years ago. But now he's dead, and we think it's because you shot him. 40 years ago. So we might charge you for that too.) WTF?
Ok, people. Forget stem cells. Forget deforestation. Let the geneticists and the environmentalists work together to solve this problem for the benefit of all. Time to genetically modify the moose. Awwww, c'mon! It's for Norway! Who wouldn't want to protect the land of the fjords! I mean, think of all the work Slartibartfast put into the design! ;)
Yes! Let's give America's kids adult anti-psychotic drugs at a slightly lower dosage and call it okay! I give it five years before they decide this was a Very Bad Idea. Hey, if a kid is in really bad shape, fine. But it seems to me (for a variety of reasons) that kids in general are getting overstuffed with too many chemicals. They're surrounded by over-processed food and carcinogenic cleaners. Their parents are overworked, harried, stressed. The kids pick it up. Internalize it. Have no coping skills. And we solve this problem by medicating? Here's my solution, in case anyone cares. Sell the SUV that is both the size of a small European nation and requires the budget of one to operate and insure. Cut out at least one of the twenty programs your kids are in. That would be cutting one program per kid. Just because the parent thinks they're omnipresent and a perpetual motion machine doesn't mean the kid has to be as well. For the sake of all that is good, take some of the pressure off your kids, and I bet you a good percentage of the kids end up not actually needing the meds. Heck, some of the parents might not need their meds, either!
We are a sick society, aren't we?
And while I'm on the subject... You know that $40k you got from selling Andorra... er... your freaking Armada? You know the $40k per year you're saving that was previously spent on gas, insurance and programs? Yeah. How about quitting that extra job you had to take to finance it? Or if, as I suspect, you take your identity from your work (which is killing you, btw), and you just. can't. quit... consider putting that money to use. Investments, college funds, or *gasp* some deserving charity. You know, save the whales, save the fjords, genetically alter a moose, plant a rainforest, feed a village in Africa, feed the guy on your local offramp, do SOMETHING.
And here's one that would have made John Adams and Thomas Jefferson cringe. Does this sound dangerously close to double jeopardy to anyone else? (Hey, man, I know you already served your time for shooting the guy. 40 years ago. But now he's dead, and we think it's because you shot him. 40 years ago. So we might charge you for that too.) WTF?
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