Pox Parties

My mom used to jokingly tell me to go sit in the highway and play with razor blades and matches. And everyone knew she was kidding.

But she never intentionally placed me in harm's way... and did everything in her power to protect me from harm!

My father worked for the Health Department during the 60's when the government was trying to vaccinate all children against serious childhood diseases and I was fortunately well informed on the subject as a result at an early age.

South Park episode 24 parodies parents who have "pox parties" to protect their children. Sadly, people today are that stupid! Kyle and the gang hilariously retaliated against their parents by paying a hooker $5 to expose them all to herpes.

I believe that if you refuse to vaccinate your children because of misinformation you have read on the internet or heard from your trailer park friends you are stupid. If you intentionally expose your child to any disease you are guilty of child endangerment, should be charged with a felony, and your child (ren) should be removed for their own safety.

The ONLY reason a child is not vaccinated should be if TWO doctors confirm that a child is intolerant of a vaccination or its ingredients.

Post Humorously

Researching another topic altogether, I came across this startling use of the word posthumously:

Nicholas Schmidle, whose narrative account of the death of Osama bin was completed without ever interviewing any members of SEAL Team 6, posthumously wrote an article entitled “In the Crosshairs’’ in The New Yorker.

Posthumously means “after death.” An article may be published posthumously, but writing one posthumously would be quite a feat.

Absolutely amazing!

The New Congress

They said "NO" for six years. Now, they're saying, "Let's waste time and energy on anything but security, jobs, health care, or basically anything that helps Americans in general. Oh, and let's bring back the dark ages!"

I Thought Kids Were Ditching Facebook

I get it. Facebook pretty much sucks. And primarily because it has been commercialized to the point that everyone and their great-grandparents believe they must have an account lest they miss sharing their pet's first poop... or the latest sale at Wal-mart.

Perhaps I'm easily peeved, but it galls me when a person who has just taken the training wheels off of their thinking cap calls my comment on national news "dumb". Not that they aren't entitled to an opinion on the subject at hand. But calling anyone dumb just shows a profound lack of emotional development.

And, like it or not, I am in a unique position to have informed opinions on national and international debates, whether you agree with them or not. Aside from the fact that I was wiring spaghetti boards (look it up) and coding Cobal and Fortran (again, look it up) before many of your parents were out of diapers, I had the distinct dis-privilege of working around some very unpleasant people in a very dark world where, they say, your right to be an ignorant, privileged, know-it-all prick is protected.

So, if you don't want to be disrespected, don't disrespect me... oh, and don't be stupid.