Often these days I find myself in the situation of explaining grown up things to my middle school aged daughters. Now that we are beyond the delicate issue of procreation, long considered by me as the highest hurdle, I realize sex was a chip shot when compared to explaining politics and the media.
Today's opt out fiasco is a great example. I challenge anyone to defend a national call for citizen action that intentionally makes the job of protecting us from suicidal terrorists more difficult. If you think you are up to the task -- try your arguments out on a room full of 7th graders.
Yes, we all know that many security measures are more show than anything else, but is it rational to try to mobilize the people of our nation against the TSA? Like everyone else I am crossing my fingers that the crazy anti Americans don't figure out how to exploit this event. If they do, our hysterical media mob will have one more reason to think about their real responsibilities. (But they will probably blame the TSA anyway).
Two weeks ago the Chinese decided that Americans were so lame that they could drive a submarine up to Los Angeles and shoot off an ICBM. We were either too embarrassed, or too incompetent to do anything about it -- or maybe we put all of our effort into burying the story. Either way, when North Korea saw that the Chinese were right, they decided to fire artillery at a South Korean positions.
If anyone out there has any suggestions about how I can explain to my kids that our leaders are actually trying to do the right thing -- I am all ears.