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Here’s the short of it:
I’ve started a new Web site and podcast at www.ApoliticalSHOW.com. It’s a chance for you to now HEAR my rants instead of reading them.
Here’s the long of it:
I haven’t updated this site for a long time because I’ve been putting all my energy into a NEW site – ApoliticalSHOW.com.
I’ve always loved radio. My dream as a small child was to be a radio DJ. However, since that wasn’t a realistic aspiration, I ended up getting a degree in journalism (insert irony here).
After producing a radio show for the past eight months or so, I’ve learned enough to feel comfortable about doing it myself. So I bought all the equipment and started doing some podcasts. It’s going to take some time for me to get really comfortable behind a microphone, and to be able to get a good flow to what I’m saying, but I’m hoping these next few weeks and months will produce a great site/podcast.
So please listen to the episodes – they’re at most 10 minutes – and please give feedback. Let me know where I’m wrong, and I’ll be able to comment/clarify on another episode.
And if you have anything to contribute – including if you’re a musician and want me to use your music as my intro/outro for an episode or two – please send it my way. You can e-mail me at Scott (at) ApoliticalSHOW.com
With the preposterous suggestion that parents should be responsible for their children, 100 college presidents from around the country have proposed lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. This could become a hot issue for the November election among the youth vote to see which candidate will let young college students get their drink on.
But there has been backlash from some parents and other organizations, suggesting colleges should be constantly supervising the activities of thousands of students every evening and weekend to make sure there is no under-age drinking going on.
“The administrators don’t understand that we can’t be there for our kids anymore to teach them how to be smart, responsible, law-abiding citizens,” said Louis Hice, who has two children currently attending college, both under 21. “Someone has to make sure they’re not drinking, driving, and getting embarrassing pictures of themselves posted on the facebook.com.”
With the drinking age at 21, there’s currently a three-year buffer for parents to not be accountable for their children’s drinking. Once kids turn 18 and are out of the house, it becomes the colleges’ fault if inappropriate activities go on. So if the drinking age is lowered, it could put additional burdens on parents if they had no one else to blame.
If the drinking age is lowered, it is possible that parents would be responsible to raise their children in such a way that if they chose to drink, they would do so responsibly. It would require parents to set a good example. It might even force parents to be more involved in their children’s lives – they would have to know where their kids were, what they were doing, and who they were doing it with.
“We just don’t have time for any of that anymore,” said Karrie Jowers, a member of Parents Against Drunk Driving. “I’ve got neighbors to compete with and spin classes to go to. I can’t be expected to teach my children to obey the law and be responsible adults. That’s what school, church and government are for anyway.”
These 18 to 21 aged children are in a unique demographic. By many counts, they are adults. Most have left the nest and are living on their own. They can vote, smoke, and enlist in the military. But they still can’t gamble, drink alcohol, or rent a car.
So university presidents are trying to lower the drinking age in order to better define that transition into adulthood, and as protection from any possible liability.
“The best way to fix a nationwide epidemic of alcohol poisoning, binge drinking, death, and disease is to make it legal,” said Ralph Pinney, president of Arcanta University. “By simply getting rid of the law, under-age drinking would no longer exist. Eighteen-year-olds would no longer be under age, so it would just be called ‘drinking’ – which everyone is okay with.”
But many students worry they wouldn’t know who to blame for their inebriation if the drinking age were lowered.
“Someone has to take care of us. Our parents are back at home, miles away. So the school has got to do it,” said Jeni Sanders, a senior at Dantel State College. She added that, come November, she would vote for whatever candidate promised to keep the drinking age at 21. Note
Note to reader: Looking for something else altogether, I recently came across this satire article I wrote several months ago for a particular Web site. It was never published, so I am including it’s barely-adjusted version here.
With the preposterous suggestion that parents should be responsible for their children, 100 college presidents from around the country have proposed lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. This is a hot issue for young people who want to get their drink on. Read the rest of this entry »
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This is my most recent, Provo- and Orem-related article to appear in Schooled Magazine. And although it was written specifically for the BYU/UVU audience, its application is hopefully universal. Enjoy.
Norse lore tells us of the troll – a mean and often ugly creature whose soul purpose was to bring hardship and heartache to anything he encountered. Most famously, perhaps, is the Norwegian fairy tale of Three Billy Goats Gruff where the antagonist troll lives under a bridge over which three goat brothers need to cross in order to get to greener pastures. Read the rest of this entry »
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It’s good to know some people are still fighting the battles worth fighting.
I know unemployment rates are high, but since the election is over and the campaigning is done, unemployment is going to be even higher. Read the rest of this entry »
