047: Everything Is Dangerous The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. And all the other stuff. I actually had a song, "Be Afraid", written last week. But it was... preachy. Too preachy. If-you-want-to-send-a-message-use-Western-Union preachy. Wasn't what I wanted. And then I saw this news story , and I knew I'd found my hook. I mean, apparently I must've been vacationing in the Alps when pet turtles were outlawed back in 1975, but I surely remember all of the kids who got salmonella playing with our adorable little buddies. Oh, wait, I don't remember a single one because I never knew a kid who got sick playing with a turtle. Neither did I know a kid who was made prone to violence from watching Road Runner cartoons, but that's neither here nor there. As Lois McMaster Bujold says, you can't make your kids safe -- you can only teach them how to be safe, and hope for the best. Or, as Leslie puts it, you
Excellent article. By the way, doesn't it give you a little less anxiety about flying? I love to fly. It always excites me when the plane picks up speed down the runway and then starts lifting up into the sky. To think that God made man able to invent such a thing when before only birds could fly. Then, one moment I am in Phoenix, AZ and the next I am in Oakland, CA. Never ceases to amaze me. God never ceases to amaze me day after day either, only even more so.
ReplyDeleteI am not afraid of flying. I LOVE to fly. I just can't stand the low IQ Gestapo drones pawing through my stuff in unconstitutional and utterly pointless and insulting searches, to say nothing of groping my person as well. I simply will not put up with it unless there is absolutely no other way to get from point A to point B. Then I will be angry for weeks before and after the flight and dream of violent revolution and heads on pikes. :-P~
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