One of them is the reason ephedra has been banned and there's been the whole fascist deal at the drugstore with Sudafed and other effective OTCs. We even have trouble getting Bronkaid any more. You have to sign something and let Obama know you're buying it.
"Americans have got to get themselves over the foolish notion that any time a tragedy occurs, somebody is "responsible" and must go to prison." We think this every time there's another news item about the poor slob who gave Jackson the medication he asked for. But in these sports hazing cases, the coach is responsible. He needed to shut his big mouth and stop treating his players like machines. But those men are elevated to such God status they are nearly invincible, they can do whatever they want. This acquittal proves it. Someone or something has got to take them down.
You're saying that the players need to turn around and rebel, that they need to walk away from it, to say "enough." But it isn't just the coaches that are the problem, they have to face the others "what are you, gay or something?", go home and face their parents, their fathers who will tell them they are quitters and cowards. It is the same god-damned macho code of honor as in the military (where recruits drop dead and they don't tell us). Someone's got to be able to stand up to all that. It's almost like some one of them has got to be their Rosa Parks.
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Date: 2009-09-18 07:57 pm (UTC)"Americans have got to get themselves over the foolish notion that any time a tragedy occurs, somebody is "responsible" and must go to prison." We think this every time there's another news item about the poor slob who gave Jackson the medication he asked for. But in these sports hazing cases, the coach is responsible. He needed to shut his big mouth and stop treating his players like machines. But those men are elevated to such God status they are nearly invincible, they can do whatever they want. This acquittal proves it. Someone or something has got to take them down.
You're saying that the players need to turn around and rebel, that they need to walk away from it, to say "enough." But it isn't just the coaches that are the problem, they have to face the others "what are you, gay or something?", go home and face their parents, their fathers who will tell them they are quitters and cowards. It is the same god-damned macho code of honor as in the military (where recruits drop dead and they don't tell us). Someone's got to be able to stand up to all that. It's almost like some one of them has got to be their Rosa Parks.