Archive for March 6th, 2008
The Front Porch: Placing the Blame
I was walking out of Target last night and observed a group of young boys skateboarding in the parking lot. There seems to be an entire demographic, or at least a small cross section of society, which I do not comprehend and can scarcely accept.
Who are these children that their parents are not watching or regulating their behavior on a Monday night? What are they doing instead? How many of these belong to the obese section of our society I hear ever more about, they who sit on the couch eating Doritos and watching television? Or are they busy on a late night shift at the local Wal-Mart? In either case, why are their children in the parking lot of a shopping center at ten pm. on a school night?
This scenario conceals a deeper, oft-politicized division in society: no one feels he is personally to blame. The real question is who should I hold responsible? That’s what really counts. Is it the government’s fault for not redistributing wealth, or the individual’s for not working harder? Is it the school’s fault my children misbehave, fault of the rich I’m poor, Phillip-Morris’s fault I have cancer? If so then the jackass I rear ended yesterday should have known I was following too close. His fault.
The [Obligatory] Election Beat
THE recent primary results in Ohio, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Texas have confirmed what I personally have believed for sometime: the Clintons will continue to get their way. In the late 70’s the Democratic party re distributed their delegates to maximize “fairness” and it appears it may in fact be too fair, allowing multiple factions to feel entitled to the nomination. Is this obsession with equality dividing their beloved party? Conservatives on the other hand remain united in their “general distaste” for John McCain, leaving many to question how he clinched the nomination.
The Bruce has yet to endorse any candidate….
Winehouse a biological weapon, sources say
THIS WEEK we learn that British singer Amy Winehouse has an infected face.
She was diagnosed with a skin condition called impetigo, which is a highly contageous bacterial infection that forms lesions, then pustules, then thick crust.
I can’t help but wonder if being doped out one’s gourd and falling face down in one’s vomit causes this condition. But then I remember that no one cares much about Winehouse’s looks. Apparently not even Winehouse. The 5 Grammy awards she won last month weren’t because folks admire her nice skin and healthy lifestyle, that much is certain.
Not surprisingly, the treatment of choice for impetigo is drugs.
