What's Wrong with Us: Two Takes

I'm not quite sure what's motivating the prevalance of stupid lawsuits these days, but no one wants to accept that bad things sometimes happen. Sometimes its a lack of accepting personal responsibility and sometimes its a desire to find someone to blame. Either way, it's ruining things:

No More Dodgeball

Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned children from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear that they will get hurt and hold the school liable.

Recess is “a time when accidents can happen,” said Willett Elementary School principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.

Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
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And I don't know what made me actually read Michelle Malkin today; usually I'm smart enough to avoid the temptation, because one of these times my frustration with her being able to spread her blatant stupidity will make my head explode. Today (well, in today's Star, anyway) she calls Angelina Jolie out of touch with reality for criticizing the wealthy nations of the world for not doing more to help refugees in Africa. And maybe Jolie's not realistic since we're generally too greedy to care (which is her basic criticism), but Malkin says she's stupid because what money we've given in the past hasn't always been used as intended. So what she's basically saying is it's better not to help at all than help at the risk of corruption diluting our efforts:

. . . Unlike jet-setting celebrities, the rest of us can't fret about feeding every last of the world's refugees when the survival of our own children's homeland is at stake.

No amount of ignorant Hollywood guilt-tripping can whitewash the United Nations' abject humanitarian failures. And no sovereign country should apologize for taking steps to look after its own first. . . .

Because it's better to let everyone else die than inconvenience ourselves in the least. I'm the only one that matters.