Taking the sting out of stinging
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:06 am
http://newsok.com/portland-residents-co ... le/3519193
Truth be told, how many slightly deranged and deluded 19 year olds, who are barely out of teen-aged adolescence, and are at the best of time highly confused about the world, dream of taking out their teen-angst on something or other? If it was the late '70s, he might have dyed his hair crimson and got a mohawk and a nose-ring and smashed foreheads with such peers on friday night whilst high on whacky backy and gone largely unnoticed.
Or maybe even in this day and age, if he had gone undetected, (and who knows how many other kids in similar straits are lurking out there?), he might just have grown up and led a normal life, and looked back on his foolish youth for the folly that it was.
As it is, he has had 'help' from the finest secret service money can buy to indulge in his childish fantasies, and now he must go to prison for ... (life?).
No wonder the world is coming apart if this is how we treat our kids.
(Okay I will take the hits now folks)
Truth be told, how many slightly deranged and deluded 19 year olds, who are barely out of teen-aged adolescence, and are at the best of time highly confused about the world, dream of taking out their teen-angst on something or other? If it was the late '70s, he might have dyed his hair crimson and got a mohawk and a nose-ring and smashed foreheads with such peers on friday night whilst high on whacky backy and gone largely unnoticed.
Or maybe even in this day and age, if he had gone undetected, (and who knows how many other kids in similar straits are lurking out there?), he might just have grown up and led a normal life, and looked back on his foolish youth for the folly that it was.
As it is, he has had 'help' from the finest secret service money can buy to indulge in his childish fantasies, and now he must go to prison for ... (life?).
No wonder the world is coming apart if this is how we treat our kids.
(Okay I will take the hits now folks)