Hysteria

Hysteria, according to the Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary, means "behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess". Ashley Smithwick, 17, of Sanford, was suspended from Southern Lee High School in October after school personnel found a small paring knife in her lunchbox. She was an athlete and academic standout. Her only crime is while school officials were snooping for drugs, they found the pairing knife. She wasn't even brining it to school, her father had grabbed the wrong lunch box and it was his that had the knife. Can we all please just relax? Why ruin a young lady's academic and professional potential but something so ridiculous? In a previous blog, I wrote about Governor Rendell's concern that we are becoming a nation of "wusses". I would add that we are becoming a bunch of hysterical "wusses" incapable of making rational judgments.

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How to piss off you fellow man

Some idiot out in Florida has decided God wants him to burn Qurans. Look genius, what does burning someone else's holy book have to do with creating peace or loving your fellow man? Quimbob over at Blogging Isn't Cool shared a video with me of another idiot that thought "Machete" would lead to a race war. I really don't see the movie doing anything more than proving my point about Michelle Rodriguez. However, this dumbass in Kansas will most assuredly start some crap that none of us needs!

Vatican: Quran burning 'outrageous' - CNN.com

Update: The leader of a tiny church on Thursday backed off his threat to burn the Quran, saying he gave up the plan in exchange for a deal to move a planned Islamic center and mosque away from New York's ground zero. The imam planning the center, however, quickly denied any such deal.