Oppose this you little monster

Ok we are just watching a show on PBS about dogs and cats; mostly because of the dogs. Regardless during the show a mother is discussing the healing affects of cats on her daughter. And what does her long suffering daughter have that requires the medicinal attributes of kitty, what horrid disease you ask? Drum roll please, get ready for it……. Opposition Defiance Disorder, that’s right her daughter is a freaking brat.

For the love of God what does it take to spank the chubby little monster and say defy this. Al Qaeda, and for that matter his brother Fred, are not the major threat to this country. Self indulgent children raised by clueless parents are. We have a generation, who instead of admitting they suck at being parents; have discovered an entire new vocabulary to put into a rational format why Johnny and Susie are punks. It is shameless at best and laughable on all levels to think is the best we could do as an age group. Terms like Helicopter parents have become the norm; the sad part being we even had to come up with a term to describe why we screwed up an entire future generation.

So next time little Timmy gets his feelings hurt or sweet little Nancy pouts remind them who is in charge and not get into a deep thought process of trying to sort through their emotional needs. For God’s sake be a parent, teach them how to stand up remember the best gift is teaching them how to fly without the nest and without you hovering all over their live.

Ok I feel better now.

When Does It End?

I love George Orwell. I read 1984, Animal Farm back in the 70's and understood them in the 80's. Now in 2009 I'm actually living them. Perhaps it is my age; last month I asked some people at work if they remembered Tel Star, only on other old guy did. It seemed very odd to the younger group that at one point there was 1 satellite and it had a name. Today there is a person who's fulltime job is to keep track of all the junk in space, Sanford and Son gone galatic.
The 1st TV I recall was like a 12" screen in a 8 foot cabinet and there was 1 channel, ok I was in Canada, even now they only have 3 channels.
In my life we have gone from theories in science to matter of fact usages in our life.

I can certianly marvel at the changes in my life and even enjoy many of them...But friends with the French, let's be real.