Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Great Americans


Recently, a man in Pennsylvania pulled a gun on his 7 year old son's football coach because he wasn't getting enough playing time. The 40 year old was arrested after the un-named coach filed a complaint.


I want to know about the son. Is he a capable football player, overlooked by an insensitive buffoon of a coach? Or does he lack miniaturized blood lust; a passion for inflicting pain on other 1st grade savages.


We can gauge the gun fixated father's level of dementia if we know more about the son's ability to tackle, block and run. If the son can't finish a designed play, or shies aways from bone jarring hits (like most normal humans), the coach is only doing his job by limiting the boy's exposure to an unpleasant, and potentially dangerous situation, and the father is completely insane, off his nut...delusional.


If the boy loves smashing others and can follow plays, but is being ignored by the coach, the father is not, according to American sensitivities, insane, but John Wayne like...saving his boy from a horse thieving coach, a bandit out to rustle away juniors playing time.


And it must be black and white! Nuance is un-American, contemplation is UNAMERICAN!


Thoughtful deliberation is......