just think how happy the silly cow will be when he moves back home with his useless degree for the rest of her lifeMy children would know better than to do that to me because I would just egg them on.
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?
Cory’s BFF (my term, not Cory’s) had already taken on the role of eco-warrior. He worked on a successful campaign to ban plastic bags in our town—Fairfax, California, that hippie haven—and lobbied against GMOs. He drove an electric car; once, when my son was a passenger, it ran out of charge on a rural road eight miles from home. (I had to go pick him up.)
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Spewing carbon all the way. Should have made him walk.
Cut his allowance and don’t pay for his tuition. If he doesn’t want to enjoy the fruits of his parents’ lifestyle he is welcome to go it alone. Obviously she didn’t teach him the Ten Commandments - this dumb kid doesn’t know the Honor Thy Father and Mother part and should be taught a lesson. When he’s poor and on his own he’ll see it’s not so easy to be “sustainable” which is really something for rich people not poor people who call it subsistance living.
He’s his mama’s boy-— a product of her lieberalism incarnate in him. Save the planet— blah blah. Mother Nature is quite capable of surviving with or without help from humanity.
“This woman didn’t raise an eco-warrior so much as a spoiled brat”
Exactly right!
The next day was a Friday and she was running late as usual, and came to me said we gotta go, I have to go to school. I told her that I had been thinking about what she had said the previous evening and told her that I was going to work from home that day in and effort to reduce our carbon footprint. She said, “But Dad, I have a Bio test today, we have to go.” I told her that saving the planet was more important than her Bio test. She was livid, and called some friends to see if she could get a ride. No luck. She stayed home that Friday.
I suggested she spend the weekend doing some research on global warming and energy use and see if what her teacher seemed right. She did and spent two days writing a paper for her history teacher that debunked human caused global warming. It was not an assignment but she gave it to the teacher anyway. It came back with a note at the top that said “I'll have to think about this.”
I seem to remember that she was able to take her Bio test on Monday, but the perspective and discernment she gained was more valuable than anything.
Kids don’t get to be kids anymore. They are taught to fret and worry and be hypersensitive about every aspect of life. When I was a kid, tornado drills were about as bad as it got. Add the gender morphing sex “education” and anti-history and social experimentation and bullying and cell phone “life” - good God existence has become way overcomplicated. It’s exhausting.
I do not believe I’ve ever heard the term “self-righteous” used in a positive context.
She raised an a$$hole. My youngest started on that crap by coming home and stating that he was now a vegitarian. That night I took the whole family out for BBQ. The sight of his sisters drooling sauce reversed that unfortunate decision.
just think how happy the silly cow will be when he moves back home with his useless degree for the rest of her lifeElectro Shock Therapy? Lobotomy? Then he’d just be happy all the time!
I hope this is satire.
If not, she’s a doormat who deserves all the abuse that comes her way from her brat and anyone else.
I’ll go you one better. What a crappy family. They need a life.
The acorn don’t fall far from the tree.
This entire story is pathetic.
If I were her I would sing “Thank God and Greyhound He’s Gone” every day of my life.
She should try teaching him economics. Things like the distance a vegetable has been shipped are already in the price of the vegetable.
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.
Yep. The amount of time I would have put with that kind of nonsense from one of my kids would be measured in seconds.
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