Bidding My College-Bound Son Good Riddance

Pacific Standard PSMag.com ^ | 9/9/15 | Ronnie Cohen

[edh]

“Carbon dioxide? I would build a fire pit with an eternal flame.

Dolphins? I would serve tuna steaks every night.

Fuel economy? Hey Son, how do you like my ‘71 Cadillac?”

I am getting so damn sick of you liberals posting here on Free Republic with you supposed retorts to eco-warriors. You are clearly in their camp. Here’s what a real response would be like instead of your petty crap :

1> Burn TIRES. Really big tires. Your eternal flame is a joke at best. You want to shoot for 3rd world air defense tire burning. Damn hippy.

2> Tuna? Really? BE A MAN AND EAT A REAL DOLPHIN! They are cute, intelligent, and tasty! They go great with manatee ... the cow of the sea! What you do is stir fry dolphin and manatee with rice ... blows away any hibachi “steak/chicken” combo.

3> Your 71 Cadillac is way too fuel efficient and lightweight. Drive something that consumes gallons per mile then we’ll talk about your “may as well be a Prius” car.

;-)

As for this article ... I guess this is the genesis of what we typically call an “unemployable person”. Of course, it will be someone else’s fault that he won’t land a job making $300K/year telling people what to eat.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

If not, she’s a doormat who deserves all the abuse that comes her way from her brat and anyone else.

The problem is that the moron that she, the public education system and the mainstream media have raised will be inflicted on the rest of us as well.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Yet while I was enjoying the essay I kept wondering, where is the father?

Good point - boys learn how to be men from their fathers. Some fine men have been raised by great mothers without the benefit of a father, but more often than not they end up with a child in the body of a man, like the foolish woman who wrote this article.

[berdie]

If I were her I would sing “Thank God and Greyhound He’s Gone” every day of my life.

[ModelBreaker]

She should try teaching him economics. Things like the distance a vegetable has been shipped are already in the price of the vegetable.

[Alberta's Child]

You’re too kind. As I read the article the first thought that came to my mind was that the kid is just an @sshole.

[jospehm20]

Yep. The amount of time I would have put with that kind of nonsense from one of my kids would be measured in seconds.

[Jonty30]

It is actually a smaller use of fossil fuels to transport our foods in those gigantic cargo ships than it is for the local farmer to truck his goods to the local farmer market.

[wardaddy]

An issue of her own making

The death of the west began with the emancipation of women and the rejection of Christianity

The two biggest factors

We made women into an unnatural hopelessly unhappy never satisfied demanding leviathan and called them our betters

Now we’re doing the same with fags

Truly strong women were before feminism

[AdaGray]

Kids like this should be dropped into the jungle for a week.

[wardaddy]

Even 35 years ago I noticed the Jewish way was to really indulge kids from babies on in the home and smother them with having their way and telling them how great and right they were which I found sharp contrast to my Stoic Santini upbringing

I recall living in Manhattan and my jewish MD buddy and his wife had their 3 year old girl with they and myself and my Barnard girlfriend and we were all going up to Scarsdale in a rented car to see his new office digs where he’d joined a great practice

The girl was whiney as hell....I had no kids yet....five now....

Anyhow we get there and the girl had a tantrum not to go in...

An hour drive....

What did they do?

Instead of spanking her little butt and changing her immediate behavior they decide we would not view the office and instead return back down the Sawmill to the promised land cause little Sarah was having none of it

It was a quiet return drive except for the brats constant gibberish

My girlfriend was Jamaican aristocrat raised in English boarding schools and I was old school Deep South whoop ass dawns early light raised

We were dumbfounded

Now Sarah is 35 and probably highly educated but neurotic as hell and insanely libtard

And so it goes I imagine with the author Ms Cohen

[21twelve]

My daughter became a vegetarian as she doesn’t like meat. She’ll cook it for us though! (Last week she made some of the best burgers I’ve had!) More of just a doesn’t like the taste thing. We don’t give her a hard time (she’s almost 18) and she doesn’t have a holier than though attitude.

[eartick]

spare the rod

spoil the child

thwack thwack thwack

[Ann Archy]

Where the HELL is the Father?? He's probably a limp-wristed lefty also like the mother!!

She deserves what she raised....doesn't sound like GOD was a part of their life.

[sakic]

Women shouldn’t be able to vote?

[sakic]

While eco-freaks can be nuts, the notion that we can spew as many toxins into the air and water as we want, and believe that Mother Nature will protect us, is equally nuts.

[outofsalt]

[Johnny B.]

But not a new problem:

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

-- attributed to Mark Twain

[miss marmelstein]

Sure, Mom, take your kid to the vile show The Book of Mormon - let him learn to make fun of folks who are different than he is; let him learn that it’s better to be a gay male than a Mormon. You should be jailed for child abuse if I had my way, mom!

[miss marmelstein]

The father probably ran away with his gay “lover.”