Zapped!

I am now discovering that blogging is addictive. Almost frighteningly so.  One can talk about anything on their mind. I think I am going to have to learn to modulate myself.  Venting my spleen one day might feel good, but upon a re-read I may appalled at what I have placed on the web.  Anyway, as my grandma used to say, let's throw one to see if it sticks. This post is going to be a little more politically tinged than I plan on writing. I keep hearing on the news about a local school district that is in talks to give the school guards tasers to help with "major discipline issues". My gut reaction? NO! NONONONONONO! Here's why. I am not in favor of school guards carrying guns. And I feel like something should help people out who work in schools.  I'm not stupid. I know how much school has changed since I was there.  Our biggest problems were a few fights a week and a group of people smoking pot between building 2 and 3. The guards, Mike and Sue, were people to bum smokes off of & would check your hall pass.  In my head, I am trying to imagine them armed. Nope, can't get there. And school now is scary as hell. Guns, fights, heroin, and that's not even the tip of that fabled iceberg. Now, having made a sound argument for them TO have tasers, let me try to explain my wholly irrational fears.  I have anther image in my head. An image of a security guard who gets a little nervous when the slouchy, emo kid coming down the hall is wearing a trench coat.  He starts to sweat and the kid, who is now being stared at, starts to sweat too. The guard decides, better safe than sorry. And zaps him.  And that is now the calling cry of every guard who chooses to tase first. Better safe than sorry. Other visions include a guard with a god complex. Or a fight breaks out and someone grabs the taser from the guard and now we've got a good time on our hands.  Let the lawsuits fall where they may.  Look,  I understand that there must be an answer somewhere. I am just completely unconvinced that tasers are it.  So, let's discuss. And next time we are totally back to fluff. To wit, I am intrigued by the Coldplay video for Viva la Vida. Did Chris Martin have his teeth done or is it Photoshop? Either way they look like Chiclets. See? Light. Fluffy.