Optimism
The warm weather and rain in the last few days have caused moths all over the South Shore to assume that it is now spring. Their unbridled optimism has sealed their fate.

Pessimism
I heard on the news that some cheerleaders got drunk and did some, as one newsman said, “salty” cheers before being suspended from school. I found it surprising that although there was no criminal action, the kids’ names were given out on the air. What was even more surprising was how vehement the female news anchor was about a 10 day school suspension not being enough of a punishment for the behavior. She actually went on to say that the kids should be “banned from cheerleading for life.”

Seriously.

My questions are these:
Since when did simply getting drunk become enough to put a kid on the morning news in a major metropolitan area?

What the fuck is wrong with us as a society that now when kids make a mistake, we feel that the mistake should follow them around forever?

What made that news anchor so angry? Does she hold the sport of cheerleading in the highest esteem? Is she so bitter or beyond reproach that she has completely and utterly forgotten what it is to make a mistake? Or, is she regularly attending AA and wishes she could sit down with Johnny. Jim and Jack and throw some salty cheers at that unloving prick of a corporate suit she married. Man, she should’ve married Arty. With that motorcycle and fringed jacket, man, he knew how to live…but I digress.

When people feel the need to puritanically punish others(i.e. the punishment is much larger than the crime) or have extremely hard line views, I have to wonder how many hookers they lived with in that coke den before they found the “right” way to live, or how many they secretly want to live with now.

Posted in Anger, Philosophical BS