What's Next?

OK, NO FUN ALLOWED!!!!

So, San Francisco is joining the list of communities eviscerating Happy Meals. Toys can't be included with the HMs because, apparently, they entice the youngsters to eat HMs. That the toys are fun and enjoyable, I guess, doesn't matter. SF, and other places, are going to make us fit--or at least not as obese--whether we like it or not. Perhaps SF and other local, state, and the federal gov't should pay more attention to what they are really supposed to do, not raise our kids. It's not as if these gov'ts have any kind of superlative record in the governing departments.

And the schools! Talk about letting an institution that can't get its own act straight reaching out to fix something that isn't any of its business. Maybe the schools should focus a bit more on teaching reading, writing, thinking, math, history, etc. instead of worrying about if kids have cupcakes or cookies or candy bars in their lunches! If the schools have enough money to pay "food police," then maybe all their cries of "poverty" are as bogus as most of us think. And here's the latest one I heard. The state of Michigan passed a law outlawing flavored waters in the schools, well, at least banning them from being sold there. Just what we need, a marriage of incompetents: those running the state and those running the schools.

BTW, I haven't received a peep from any of the 7 school board members here regarding my suggestion that we consider changing school names from "places" (lake) and trees ("oak") to those of important persons, such as Lincoln, Washington, Douglass, etc. I guess, though, it's nicer to have something named "Country Oaks" or "Oak Valley" or "Spring Mills" (how nice!) than named after someone who made a difference. What better way to reinforce an idea--that people have and can make a difference.

Oh, I'm getting a headache!