don’t lie to yourself: you know you want it

I have said this in a recent entry. The new I-Generation of kids are so pampered, over-protected, and loaded up with unnecessary drugs they’ll grow up to be glass adults. The health care industry is one of the only four profiting businesses left in United States (the other three are religion, the war machine, and college). Every day I am reading something so ridiculous on the news that it simply can’t be ignored. So to inaugurate the final “split” of d332.com into three separate websites and it’s return to “The Art of Not Passing,” I am introducing a new category. The I-Generation. You could read the “i” as the country’s fascination with all things Apple (ie. i-pods, i-pads-i-phones ) or you could take the “i” to mean a over-preoccuppcation with one’s self.

Here is the latest one. Study shows that Hot Dogs are dangerous to kids. “The hot dog is just perfectly designed to act like a plug,” said Deepak Mehta, director of the pediatric aerodigestive center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. (source: Group Labels Hot Dogs a choking hazard) This fellow must be behind on his Mercedes installment payment.

With all these INVENTED dangers, how in the world are we going to get our kids prepared for the REAL difficulties that lie ahead of them in life when a mere hot-dog is a “risk.” Do these kids even know an actual crises when they see one? Do they even know what to do if two girls were to show up on their doorstep and they can’t locate one cup? How else are we going to raise the kind of outstanding citizens who have the breeding to say “yes please” when 12 inches of steaming meat is unceremoniously shoved in front of their faces?

Next thing you know, a report will be showing that 5 kids hitting one kid in the back of the head with an inflatable fist-shaped toy while pumping warm water from a garden hose onto his face may or may not stunt a career in Tulvan throat singing.