Shattered Sun

In Arizona, we’re seeing a growing number of schools that are choosing to get rid of contact playground games like tag. I find this ridiculous. At what point do we stop overprotecting our children from each other? Are they really vicious little monsters like the schools make them out to be? I mean, come on. Isn’t it a part of growing up to run around and get scratched up a little? From our local paper, here’s a list of some of the banned games:

A growing number of contact sports are banned at some schools, including: * Dodge ball. * Tackle football. * Tag and other chase games. * Wall ball, where kids line up against a wall and other children try to tag them out by hitting them with a ball.

I can remember playing tag and thinking it was unfair because I wasn’t the fastest runner. So I learned to run faster. I remember playing dodge ball and getting hit hurt a wee bit. So I learned how to bend & weave & be flexible.

I could go on and on about how much I learned from getting hurt a little. The world isn’t fair and there is no better place to learn that than from your peers on the playground. Heaven knows that we aren’t raising many unique thinkers these days and I don’t think the coddling is going to help them any.

Is it crazy that Anna Nicole’s daughter has four men claiming to be her dad? Or is that just par for the course of being the daughter of Anna Nicole Smith? It’s just insane, I tell you!

I do not understand the whole Bowl Game thing for football. Every year another bowl pops up. Or maybe the corporate sponser changes and thus the name changes and I just think the bowl is new. Either way, around here the big news is that Tempe doesn’t give a rat’s butt that the Fiesta Bowl when to the Cardinals Stadium. They traded it for the Insight Bowl. Yes, I said the Insight Bowl. It kills me that they don’t have cool names like the Rose Bowl. Even the Fiesta Bowl is nifty. But the Insight Bowl? How unoriginal is that?

And Darel, enlighten me on how the bowl thing works. Is there a bowl game for every team in football or something?

If I’m ever so old that I mistake a marijana plant for an “attractive weed” please kill me and put me out of my misery, okay?

Deputy informs seniors their ‘attractive weed’ is marijuana
Associated Press Aug. 23, 2006 06:26 PM

PRESCOTT - A Yavapai County sheriff’s deputy patrolling a senior housing development outside Prescott Wednesday spotted a 5-foot-tall marijuana plant growing between two residents’ driveways.

Deputy Justin Dwyer got out, identified the plant and interviewed the residents, spokeswoman Susan Quayle said. They told the deputy they thought the plant was “just an attractive weed, and they had been watering it because it looked so nice.”

Quayle said it appeared the plant was growing wild and probably sprouted from a stray seed. Dwyer told the homeowners he would have to confiscate it and asked them to call deputies if more were found.

Again, I’m amazed at modern medicine. These beautiful twin girls were separated today and have a 90-95% of leading normal happy lifes. I love seeing stuff like that in the news. It’s just reaffirming that we can come together and heal such complicated issues. Simply wonderful. If you have a chance, check out the pictures & animation. Very nifty!