Burn, baby, burn
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/11214245.htm
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Pennsylvania and other states are looking at passing legislation to requiring teens age 15-17 to get parental permission to tan, and teens under 15 to be accompanied by a parent. Ignoring the fact that there are actual problems in the world and my affinity for being tan, this is ridiculous. Do these people think teens really think they're being healthy by laying in a tanning bed? And do they really think the parents have no idea what's going on? As Matt Lauer said when these nutcases were on the Today show yesterday, who's saying parents won't just give permission. It's hard to believe the parents of the millions of teens tanning now are completely unaware; don't they when their children come home with a different skin color? (Nutcases' answer: they think the kids are wearing makeup.) Next thing you know they'll want to turn off the sun??!!!!
(Note: This is my attempt at making my blog politically conscious and relevant. Soon, I'll be one of those blogs that takes down a major news figure.)
You know what's ironic? Blogger's spellchecker finds blog to be an incorrectly spelled word.
You have to register to read philly.com articles, but if you're from philly, you should have done so already, and if not, just do it, it's worth it.
Pennsylvania and other states are looking at passing legislation to requiring teens age 15-17 to get parental permission to tan, and teens under 15 to be accompanied by a parent. Ignoring the fact that there are actual problems in the world and my affinity for being tan, this is ridiculous. Do these people think teens really think they're being healthy by laying in a tanning bed? And do they really think the parents have no idea what's going on? As Matt Lauer said when these nutcases were on the Today show yesterday, who's saying parents won't just give permission. It's hard to believe the parents of the millions of teens tanning now are completely unaware; don't they when their children come home with a different skin color? (Nutcases' answer: they think the kids are wearing makeup.) Next thing you know they'll want to turn off the sun??!!!!
(Note: This is my attempt at making my blog politically conscious and relevant. Soon, I'll be one of those blogs that takes down a major news figure.)
You know what's ironic? Blogger's spellchecker finds blog to be an incorrectly spelled word.
posted by Alexis @ 10:23 AM
3 Comments:
At 3:46 PM,
Alexis said…
I appreciate your acknowledgement of the profundity of my analysis. I was extremely moved by the hilarity of SBSA. (sidebar: I was a little disappointed in Sports Guy's analysis. I think he's been mailing it in lately. What kind of March Madness diary stops Friday afternoon!!)
I was certain roofies wasn't spelled ruffies, but I thought it'd be hard to find the correct spelling. Not true: it's right in my handy dictionary, which I use far more often for emails than work, as "roofies": 1994 slang for a powerful sedative used illicitly in the US.
At 3:58 PM,
Alexis said…
In order for this blog thing to work, we need to get more readers who are not directly involved in the stories we tell...suggestions?
At 1:41 PM,
Alexis said…
I don't care if he's writing a book! His only job is to compose random witticisms and get paid a lot. How hard is it to complete an NCAA running diary past the 2nd night!!! Fortunately for sportsguy, he started doing some ramblings every day under More Cowbell, and this is really what I like best so I will forgive him.
I feel I have provided the Merion community readers, from my comment on Laura's blog. But Kenny gets totally random people to reply, how does he do that? Perhaps his site, with its obscure music references and insightful political commentary, is more appealing to the random indie blog commenting types.
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