Recently, as covered in my Ladies Panel (scroll down a little bit in the righthand sidebar column), we had Star Magazine publishing photos purportedly showing Angelina Jolie traipsing around in a dog leash. And lest we not forget the recent story out of Kansas (as covered in this space -- first link at bottom) about the daycare worker beating children with a riding crop. Now ABC News is reporting on another similar alleged incident:ABC is airing a report this weekend concerning former aspiring Olympic swimmer Jancy Thompson, who has filed the fifth among a string of sexual abuse/misconduct lawsuits against USA swimming in recent months (second link at bottom). Jancy says that she was previously abused by her swim coach in Cali. She alleges that coacher would force her to don a dog collar and leash, and that he would even make her practice in such attire, holding said leash while she swam laps around the pool. Very pathetic stuff.
Seriously -- What is wrong with the people in the country these days (and for at least the past 10 years, perhaps coinciding with the meteoric rise of The Net in the late 90's)? Is mindless 2012 Doomsday prediction worry setting in full bore, or is it the equally paranoid apprehension over Hindenburg Omen scenarios of the imminent collapse of the stock market (third link at bottom)? Yawn.
I recently in this space reached a point where it has even started to become difficult to predict the typically very predictable moves and positions of the American far left. Frankly, I recently haven't been able to make heads nor tails of precisely what it is (if anything) that is currently motivating those people.
My suggestion was for across-the-board frontal lobotomies for democrat party loyalists everywhere. But the more I think about it, the more I think maybe the lobotomies and shock therapies should extend to an ever larger swath of the population! (Yes, all of these suggestions are largely tongue in cheek, but What the Hell already?). Get a grip, American nation. The world is not coming to an end, nor are we human beings regressing into lower species (even if the anecdotal evidence to the contrary may be aplenty).
[Postcript: How about me working in the JYD photo above? May the legendary Junkyard Dog, a.k.a. Sylvester Ritter, rest in peace. THUMP!]
http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-you-i-oughta-pound-you-with-riding.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/brian-ross-investigates-usa-swimming-sex-abuse-scandal/story?id=11396970
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10835851/1/hindenburg-omen-is-a-stock-market-crash-imminent.html
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