It’s been a while since I’ve posted and I know my three readers (and that’s probably an exaggeration!) are probably getting impatient.
The good news is that I’m back and will be posting a bit more regularly since I so often feel the need to vent about this insane world that seems to be getting more insane by the minute.
Just a quick example of the kind of shit that’s going on that just makes my head feel like it’s going to explode:
A school principal in a place called Caro, Michigan ruined a kid’s school birthday party by confiscating his cupcakes because they were “inappropriate.” No, it’s not because they had enough sugar in them to give Michael Bloomberg a stroke or had dildo-shaped candles on them, it’s because they were decorated with little plastic green army men!
The raging idiot behind this brain-dead move was a woman named Susan Wright. She’s the principal of Schall Elementary School although it’s hard for me to imagine how anyone would consider someone that intellectually deficient to run a lemonade stand let alone a school where young minds are so vulnerable to being warped by “lessons” like this one.
And by the way, how does vilifying plastic army men square with “supporting the troops?” Come on now, these days even many limp-wristed lefties are all for supporting the troops even if they don’t necessarily agree with their mission. Ms. Wright claimed there was no “disrespect” directed towards the military by her life-saving maneuver so she obviously didn’t want to be painted as someone who does not support the troops!
I don’t suppose I need to go into the reason behind Ms. Wright’s lame-brained decision regarding the little green plastic army men that I remember playing with as a kid but I probably will anyway. It’s this “zero tolerance” bullshit about guns in school. Anything that looks, sounds, feels or smells vaguely like a firearm or anything that’s been within ten feet of one is cause for all-out panic. The goal, apparently, is to turn this into a nation of pants-wetting, paranoid ninnies who panic over the idea of crossing the street!
Thank God we still have parents out there with the brains to see this crap for what it really is. The parents of the child whose cupcakes were confiscated were pissed off enough to alert the media. Kudos to them!
Like I said, I played with those same little green army men when I was growing up back in the 60’s and we did everything imaginable to those poor guys. We crushed them with rocks, lit them on fire and, blew them up with firecrackers and shot them with BB guns (oh the humanity!). We made our little green army men go to war and kick some green army man ass!
I must be a miracle that I’m sitting here today as an adult who has nothing on my record worse than a few speeding tickets. I don’t know how I was able to break free from the spell those army men tried to cast on me but somehow I did!
This has gone on a lot longer than I planned. So what else is new?