Curiouser and Curiouser!
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense." - Alice in Wonderland
Alice might find herself right at home in the world today. A check of the headlines reveals a lot of nonsense.
In earthquake-ravaged Haiti, an AP article describes how Bernice Chamberlain sleeps with a machete under her mattress to deter sexual predators and keeps her family's food tied to her leg to discourage thieves as prison escapees terrorize law-abiding citizens. Yet 10 Southern Baptist missionaries attempting to evacuate a busload of children to better living conditions across Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic remain in prison. Poor judgment on the missionaries part? No doubt. Considered such a threat they should be kept in jail while sexual predators, murderers and thieves roam free? Curious.
At last report, Bill Clinton was poised to put on his white hat and ride to the rescue.
More power to him.
In the Queens Borough of New York, twelve-year-old Alexa Gonzalez scribbled "Lex was here 2/1/10" and "I love my friends Abby and Faith" on her desk at Junior High School 190. The cherubic pre-teen was arrested and taken to the police station. In handcuffs. She got in even more trouble when they found a small bottle of white-out in her purse.
Reminds me of 6-year-old Zachary Christie who, last fall, took a camping utensil that can serve as a knife, fork and spoon to school to use while eating his lunch after he joined the Cub Scouts. Zachary was suspended by the school board for 45 days. In reality, the suspension lasted only long enough for worldwide outrage to prompt the Newark, Delaware, school board to reverse their idiotic decision.
Matthew Whalen, a 17-year old Eagle Scout was suspended from an upper New York High School for 20 days because the Principal found a 2-inch pocket knife in Matthew's car. The knife, which was given to him by his police chief grandfather, was in a survival kit.
Tire irons in the trunk of every vehicle at school? No problem.
A 2-inch pocket knife?
You're in a heap of trouble, boy!
Is there more nonsense than common sense in our world today? Hard to say, but I imagine Alice would agree we currently have a leg up on it.
As Will Rogers once said "Common sense ain't common".
To which A. Boomer would add, "Nonsense is".
email: aboomer@embarqmail.com
-- (February 8, 2010)
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