As a nation whose population started with risk-takers, we have become unbelievably risk adverse.
My parents would have had a meltdown if they had any idea of the sorts of things my brothers and I got up to in the woods down here. Let me just say that the Consumer Product Safety Commission and OSHA have long since banned just about everything we considered “toys”, and the Department of Children and Families would have a collective stroke about some of things that we considered pets.
Damn, it was fun! Amazing that none of us died, because the Public Service commercials indicate that we shouldn’t have lasted one typical morning.
]]>And some wonder why the rest of the world now considers America and Americans to be psychotic paranoid nutcases…
– Badtux the TV-less Penguin (because if I have to read between the lines to get an inkling at the truth, I want *lines*, goddamn it!).
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