Monday, August 8, 2011
Will it ever be like the good ol' days again?
I'm an old guy, so let me tell you 'bout the good ol' days. In my day, men in my home town did not set women of fire. Kids did not bring guns to school and start mowing people down. Therefore you could actually bring an opaque backpack to school without causing a panic. I know this sounds incredible, but it's true. In my day, none of our food had safety seals and yet no one died from poison. Hair driers didn't have warning labels saying "Don't use in the shower." Coffee cups didn't have labels saying "Contents may be hot, so don't dump it on your head." In fact, none of the stuff we bought had warning labels but we never got hurt nor sued the manufacturers for millions of dollars. In my day, you could fly in an airplane without being strip searched. Murderers and rapists stayed in jail, but they left people like Martha Stewart alone, told her not to do it again, or at worst gave her a fine. Back then the prison designed to hold a thousand men held about seven hundred men, not four thousand. In this way, people who did really bad things weren't set free in three years. You see, when I grew up common sense was common. Most people believed that the Bible was the Word of God. I wonder if there is any connection?
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