Quotes added on Sunday, December 16 2012
MY RULES
10 year old girl: Things used to be so easy, and I just don't know what to do anymore.
Me: Playing webkinz is easy.
10 year old girl: My parents are talking about my future so often.
Me: The transition into grade 5 is a scary thing.
10 year old girl: I'm just getting so much homework.
Me: I know! A whole page, plus the back!!
10 year old girl: I just wish I was skinnier, like you, bestie.
Me: Shut up, wagon wheels are yummy.
10 year old girl: You'll never guess what he said to me at the mall yesterday!
Me: That he needs to give you your 10 cents back so you can buy some candy?
10 year old girl: Just lemme send off this text.
Me: Sure, but we have to find your mom and give her phone back after..
Nmq
Morgan Freeman's brilliant take on what happened yesterday
:
"You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but
here's why.
It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the
news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the
Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric
Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single
*victim* of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just
off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it
by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a
grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a
horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.
CNN's article says that if the body count "holds
up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind
Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse
than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders
for all the details of what they saw and heard while the
shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's
face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories
yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's
identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't
sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just
lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care
center or a maternity ward next.
You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and
remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by
donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun
control as the problem. You can help by turning off the
news."
