Hi Readers — What’s the story today? Simply this: After four years of gathering every week at the local library for a morning of coffee, tea and friendship, a group of retirees is being chased out. Why? A nursery school started bringing its kids there at the same time and the old folks COULD SPILL THEIR […]
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Outrage of the Week: Boy Scouts Forbidden to Carry Pen Knives!!
Readers — This one is so utterly insane I’ve been saving it all week as just the thing to shake us up all weekend. (Why we should spend all weekend shook up by the insanity of pop culture, I don’t know. But somehow, it just feels right.) Anyway, here bshhfhabkd it is, from Times Online in England: Penknives […]
Outrage o’ the DAY: Dad Branded ‘Perv’ For Photographing Own Kids in Park
Folks — it doesn’t get any creepier than this: teieibhtkn A dad in Britain takes pix of his adorable sons on an inflatable slide and finds himself accused of all manner of disbusting stuff. Can we say it again? We are in the midst of a Pedophile Panic! When Gary Crutchley started taking pictures of […]
Half of All 5-10 Year Olds Have NEVER Played on Their OWN Street
Dear Readers — Here is an extraordinary nhehtiekda essay from the Times of London, “We Approach Others’ Children at Our Peril.” It traces how “what began 25 years ago as an understandable desire to raise awareness of child abuse is turning into something extremely distructive — an instinctive suspicion of any encounter between grown-ups and […]
Boy Ticketed for Climbing a Tree — But This is NOT Our “Outrage of the Week”
So here’s the story, szzdnyinhz as reported in The Daily Mail: A 9-year-old boy from Germany visits his five cousins in England. They go to a park, the boy climbs a tree, a neighbor complains that the kids are being rowdy, the tree-climber gets a ticket. It’s crazy to ticket a boy for climing a […]
Crazed School Bans Parents from Sports Day
What happens when the fear of the incredibly rare crime of child kidnapping becomes so all-consuming that it overshadows any other considerations? Including common sense? Or even Googling? You get something like this: A school in England that holds a multi-school sports day every June – the highlight of the year, where kids compete and […]
Free-Range Kids Outrage of the Week: “Wear Goggles When Putting Up Posters”
Four teachers in ten said that some field trips had been “toned down or cancelled” because they just weren’t safe enough.