No level playing field

No playing field - whether a yard to be mowed or a turf on which to be raced - can be flawlessly level. Or can it?

Just when I think I cannot allow another example of the death of common sense to overwhelm me, I encounter a plethora of new insanities. Middle income parents can now complain that affirmative actions and subsidies to low income families disadvantage them because they cannot afford private schools for their children. The playing field for them is not level.

The print media apparently feels compelled to cater to the wealthy to bail them out of their financial misery by repeatedly featuring information and articles about travel, travel and travel. This proves that when it comes to personal gratification, only money levels the playing field.

The FDA allows itself to be driven by the ‘global warming’ agenda as it claims a study reveals that elevated greenhouse gas levels could cause "severe heat waves with likely increases in mortality and morbidity, especially among the elderly, young and frail." Only by including the word ‘could’ as a safety net for irresponsible reporting, could a politically correct lie like this reported by the FDA exist. How does climate change level the playing field? Really! We’re all going to die unless we buy into regulatory changes that level the carbon dioxide playing field.

Speedo’s LZR at $550 and Tyr’s Tracer Light at $320 and Blue Seventy’s Nero at $395 - each suit gives swimmers the competitive edge. Each makes swimmers more buoyant and has an ultra-smooth exterior that glides through the water far more easily than skin.. Most troubling to coaches, the suits seem to help the flabby, lazier swimmers the most, because their fat gets compressed but remains more buoyant than dense muscle, allowing them to float higher in the water and swim faster. Unfortunately, the suits tend to fall part after just a dozen swims. By checking the purchase prices of these new technological wonders, you get a picture of the great inequity between rich and poor in leveling watery rivalries in the pool. Without one of these suits, you are obviously disadvantaged. A government subsidy can’t be far behind, can it?

I accept the fact that no field is level and look forward to bouncing along my acreage on my riding mower, spring to fall, asking for no racial or gender preference, no subsidy for my environmentally incorrect, liquid, hydrocarbon fuel, no substitute for my sunlit satisfactions.