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Toronto School Bans Hard Balls
In an attempt to finally "think of the children," Earl Beatty Public school has prohibited students from playing with balls after a "few serious incidents" in which students and staff were hit or almost hit by balls. From the article: "The happy days of kicking a ball around at recess ended Monday after students took home a letter advising that henceforth, no child could bring a soccer ball, football, volleyball or even tennis ball to the junior and senior school in the area of Coxwell and Danforth Aves." I assume all lunches will soon be taken via feeding tube to minimize choking hazards.
Actually, we know that it works perfectly well. It's going swimmingly even in countries that are still nominally communist.
What capitalism requires, however, is that you get your ass out and work hard at something, instead of hanging around in a park all day, living in a tent, banging drums, trashing businesses that actually employ people, chanting "Hey hey, ho ho" and whining that people who worked for what they have shouldn't be allowed to have it and some should be taken away and given to you.
In the Occupy version of the story about the grasshopper and the ant, I can see the grasshopper being turned into some kind of oppressed hero, held down by the evil ant, rather than being the victim of his own stupid choices. Ain't communism grand?
how about scrotum jokes?