The big 'D'

Another depressing trend in America will be capstoned at this Tuesday’s idle idol worship festival commemorating Michael Jackson. The ratio of simpletons to followers of Thoreau’s simpler life remains at 80% to 20%. Of course, I fall in with the minority who march to a different drummer. The big "D" of my day, however, must be a local school district’s attempt to combat domestic violence by instituting a program of intervention beginning with the 3rd grade students. That, my fellow travelers in the land of insanity, represents 8 yr. olds - who probably already experience parental violence and have no ‘power’ to do anything about it. When politically correct liberals get their hands on a cultural fix, prosaic is the drug of choice.