Posts Tagged ‘kids’

The Consequences of Safe Havens

June 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Too often in politics an idea springs up, gets a wave of support amongst the masses, political correctness yields to political pandering, and legislation passes because of that idea. Then, after the fact, people understand why the idea was never enforced in the first place.  Nebraska has done just that.  Trying to deal with the [...]

What Christmas is all about

December 24th, 2006 | 3 Comments

A lot of adults are debating whether Christmas should be a religious celebration in the United States. There has been adult arguments about whether Christmas trees should be in airports, adult fights over companies allowing charities to raise money during Christmas. All over the country, adults find negatives to worry about and fret over. Those [...]

Rewarding Stupidity

October 30th, 2006 | No Comments

I really can’t believe this one: A federal jury awarded $24.2 million to two men who were severely burned by electrical wires when they trespassed onto railroad property and climbed atop a rail car. OK, you’ve got these very large vehicles that travel very, very, fast.  You’ve got these bare wires that connect to these [...]

Majority voters determine how smart everyone else is?

October 19th, 2006 | No Comments

Morgan Quitno Press released this list of the “smartest states” list. Without further ado, here it is, color coded to make it more fun to play with:   Looks kinda grim for all those people who mocked the “Al Gore voters are smarter than Bush voters” thingy from the past. However, Morgan Quitno has kept [...]

Tag – that exclusionary activity your mom warned you about.

October 18th, 2006 | 10 Comments

Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they’ll get hurt and hold the school liable. Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban. While there [...]