TGIF

Hello My Dear Friends! Just to be clear, when I say TGIF it means 'Thank God I'm Feline'. I could give a rats tail what day it is. Today I say TGIF because you people are crazy! I know it's Friday and I should be writing things like, do you think clouds look down on us and say 'hey, that one's shaped like an idiot'? But, instead, let's discuss actual idiots. First, there was a second night of "unrest" in Saint Louis after an off duty officer shot and killed an 18-year old. Here's the thing. The officer says he was returning fire after the teen fired three shots at him. The victim's mother, who was not there, says her son did not have a gun; he had a sandwich. Apparently it was a Glock & Cheese sandwich because investigators found a 9 mm handgun and three spent shell next to the victim. No remnants of a sandwich were recovered.
Next, there was the genius on the plane to the Dominican Republic who decided to stand up and announce that he had Ebola. He thought it was funny. Others did not. Imagine that. People, stop screwing around on airplanes. "Joking" that you have a bomb, an infectious disease or a burning need to meet Allah is really not funny to sober people. If you really need to be the center of attention on an airplane, try buying everyone a sandwich. Just not a Glock & Cheese. That never turns out well.
Finally, a school district in Lincoln, Nebraska, has instructed teachers to stop referring to students as "boys" and "girls". They were told that acceptable terms would be "campers", "readers" or "purple penguins". Yes, purple penguins. These "gender inclusive" terms will somehow make lessons more effective. I know, right? You really can't make this stuff up. Why not just call them all Pat or Chris or Terry? Another term they're discussing is "hen". That's the "gender inclusive" term Swedish teachers refer to students. The problem with that is that, in Sweden, the term for 'he' is 'han' and the word for 'she' is 'hon' so "hen" was a simply a vowel change. Here in the States "hen" is a female chicken (or other game birds) and, in most circles, not something you call people. So we're left with the aforementioned choices. This is the kind of educational nonsense that's going to spread like wildfire. So, when your little darling comes home with a friend (I think you can still say friend) and says this is my purple penguin Buffy, you don't have to search their room for drugs! You can just give them both a carrot and send them on their way.
Po