Nothing frosts me more than a "news article" trumpeting the plight of some poor unfortunate .... with a big screen TV, or lavish car in the background of the photos, or a "single mom" with four kids and no dad in the picture (did she not know where they all were coming from?).
Truly, we are the sum of our choices. Neal Boortz once said that there were three guarantees of failure:
Not graduating from high school.
Having kids before you get married.
Getting involved in illegal drugs.
Now, you can miss all three of these and still fail, but it's a whole lot harder. While, any one of the three - or a combination - will make succeeding in your life far, far more difficult.
Whenever I see these stories, they are always the same and there are suspicious, gaping holes in them where certain details and decisions would usually be. It’s almost like those “baffling” and “random” violent crimes that take place in the inner city... you know darn well something is missing.
In before the first "stupid laws make drugs illegal" rant.