Hello All,

Thank goodness for satellite technology, especially our new uplink
which will let me comment on some of the drivel we're viewing via
satellite television.

I recently saw a news blurb in which some well-meaning government
agency was warning parents to remove drawstrings from their children's
clothes.  I beg you, in the interest of the future of our species, to
join me in making fun of such warnings.

           . . . After all, drawstring pants and hoods snugged close
with a drawstring have both been around for centuries.  So, why the
sudden concern that whole herds of youngsters may suddenly try to
hang themselves or develop terminal stupidity?  Or, is it more a worry
that many parents have such a focus on their careers that they have
forgotten that, yes indeed, children do need to be supervised?  I
submit that parents who are so impractical, that their children are
unsupervised for the time necessary to hang themselves, should not
be parents.  So, while not wishing anything bad upon any child, I
suggest that such warnings are counter-productive.  These parents
should either get a clue, be given a clue about child supervision,
or we should just let nature take it's course.

Those of you who read the yearly Darwin Awards, named after my
illustrious ancestor, will perhaps have picked up on another worry.
Many of those who manage to remove themselves, in examples of
incredible terminal stupidity, do so when they are already old enough
to have had children.  Thus, it would seem good to give such folks
another chance to help the species and remove genes from the pool.

My conclusion is that governments should slow down their trend towards
trying to protect people from their own stupidity.  If someone cannot
develop common sense by the time they become an adult, we should stop
coddling them!


Yours sincerely,

               Charlene Darwin


P.S.  What with current trends, evidenced by provinces like Ontario
removing the theory of evolution from their "science" curriculum, I
hold little hope for the alleged "knowledge economy" that Canada is
supposedly trying to create.

C.D.


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