Yeah, sure.

[Carolyn Garner Siscoe]

Do kids really understand cause and effect?  I remember when I was an early
teen and thought it would be horrible to actually live past 18-all downhill
from 19 on. Not wanting to trivialize something like this but I think he
didn't understand how fleeting is fame and attention.
Carolyn

tejas wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Baker" <rcbaker@eden.infohwy.com>
> To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:46 PM
> Subject: Yeah, sure.
>
> > So this 15 year old kid crashes his plane into the side of a bank.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > A note in his pocket said it was because he took Osama bin Laden's
> > appeal seriously.
> >
> > But you would have to be crazy to take Osama seriously, and the kid was
> > upper middle class
> > (private school, taking flight lessons), so a meaningless crime of
> > juvenile passion doesn't make
> > any sense.
> >
> > But maybe he was taking a drug approved by the US govt. FDA that
> > commonly makes kids
> > commit suicide!!! Of course its still on the market, but its exactly the
> > explanation America needs
> > to feel good. Yeah, thats it -- that drug must be the cause when we've
> > eliminated all the other
> > possibilities.
> >
> > Now that the world makes logical sense again, our lives can move along
> > secure in the knowledge
> > that things that don't make sense in stageset America can be explained
> > if you look hard
> > enough for explanations.
> >
> >  -- Roger
> >
> >                            ************************************
> >
> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17024-2002Jan8.html
> >
> > Tampa Crash Pilot Had Acne Drug Prescription
> > Medicine's Link to Suicide Is Being Probed
>
> Alright! Zit medication turns you into a terrorist.
>
> Or does it?
>
> Ted Samsel
>
> tbsamsel@infi.net
> http://home.infi.net/~tbsamsel