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Kamis, 12 September 2013
The Subtext of All Tattoos
Oversimplified, but I suspect that there is some truth to it for many young people:
Selasa, 27 Agustus 2013
I'm Getting Cranky In My Old Age
From August 26, 2013 MLive.com comes this disgusting story of what passes for youth culture in Michigan:
The game was called "point 'em out, knock 'em out," and it was as random as it was brutal.
The object: Target an innocent victim for no other reason than they are there, then sucker punch him or her.
But on this day in Lansing, there would be no punch. The teen-age attacker had a stun gun. He did not know his would-be victim was carrying a legally concealed pistol.
The teen lost the game.The teenager survived being shot in the buttocks -- and had the good sense to write an apology letter to his victim. But what does this say about what has become an increasingly common part of ghetto subculture? It wasn't, "this guy might have some money -- let's rob him," or "I'm angry at someone and I want to take revenge." It was just a random assault because it will be fun to injure someone.
I am so glad that I don't live somewhere where this is a problem. The rest of you: be ready.
Kamis, 27 Juni 2013
Not Sure Which Is Scarier...
Which is scarier?
The prosecution's star witness in the trial of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin is 19, still in high school, and admits that the letter she wrote to Trayvon's mother...she didn't actually write it. She can't even read it, because it's in cursive.
Or is it this: I just received a sample kit in which I am to collect my urine for 24 hours. The test is to determine whether I am likely to develop kidney stones again, or if this was a one-time event. While reading the instructions, it tells you how to collect the samples for 24 hours. It tells you not to remove the sponge from the collection container. What is scary is that it tells you to put the container in the refrigerator in between filling it... and "don't drink it."
There are enough people out there who need to be told not to drink their own urine that you would bother to put this in the directions? And who, presumably, know how to read, so that they can understand the direction not to drink their own urine?
Perhaps it is time to consider moving to a country with a future. I am beginning to feel like I am living in the prequel to Idiocracy.
UPDATE: For those who are wondering: this isn't a warning on the collection bottle. It is on the printed instructions.
The prosecution's star witness in the trial of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin is 19, still in high school, and admits that the letter she wrote to Trayvon's mother...she didn't actually write it. She can't even read it, because it's in cursive.
Or is it this: I just received a sample kit in which I am to collect my urine for 24 hours. The test is to determine whether I am likely to develop kidney stones again, or if this was a one-time event. While reading the instructions, it tells you how to collect the samples for 24 hours. It tells you not to remove the sponge from the collection container. What is scary is that it tells you to put the container in the refrigerator in between filling it... and "don't drink it."
There are enough people out there who need to be told not to drink their own urine that you would bother to put this in the directions? And who, presumably, know how to read, so that they can understand the direction not to drink their own urine?
Perhaps it is time to consider moving to a country with a future. I am beginning to feel like I am living in the prequel to Idiocracy.
UPDATE: For those who are wondering: this isn't a warning on the collection bottle. It is on the printed instructions.
Kamis, 16 Mei 2013
There Are Descriptions For Which No Comment Is Printable
I know not to trust everything that appears in Wikipedia, but a reader brought this to my attention, and it is rather like a contest to identify the number of despicable, wrong, horrible, evil things that can be done to a person, describing Brenda Spencer, who was one of the first mass murderers at a school in the modern era:
Spencer excelled in photography, winning first prize in a Humane Society competition.[6] After her parents had separated, she lived with her father in virtual poverty; they slept on a single mattress on the living room floor. Police later found half empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. In 2001 she accused her father, Wallace Spencer, of having drunkenly subjected her to beatings and sexual abuse.[7] He said the allegations were not true.[8] Spencer is said to have self-identified herself as "having been gay from birth."[9]
In early 1978, staff at a facility for problem pupils which Spencer had been referred to due to truancy, informed her parents that she was suicidal. In the summer Spencer was arrested for shooting out the windows of the Cleveland Elementary with a BB gun, and burglary. In December a psychiatric evaluation arranged by her probation officer recommended Spencer be admitted to a mental hospital due to her depressed state, but her father refused to give permission. For Christmas 1978 he gave her a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition.[8][10] Spencer later said: "I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun." To the question as to why he might have done that, she answered: "I felt like he wanted me to kill myself."
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