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Saturday, March 29. 2014

A good place for city kids


A place for kids to play and hang out which isn't bubble-wrapped.


It's not really the nanny state, it's tort lawyers driving the nonsense. We did wild and crazy things when I was a kid, including BB gun battles and stone-throwing battles. We made bonfires in the woods, and swam in the reservoir in our underwear. We stole our parents' cigarettes and smoked them in the woods. Of course, that was not on school property. I was a tomboy.


We broke our arms and our legs, got banged up, and got lost. Good adventures, good training for life. I got to the point where getting lost was a fun challenge.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:02 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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the tort lawyers and the nanny state reinforce each other.
Every time a tort lawyer starts a lawsuit, the nanny state gets stronger.
Every time they lose a lawsuit, the nanny state sees a reason for more rules and regulations.
Every time they win a lawsuit, the nanny state sees a reason to criminalise something that used to be a civil case, and sees justification for its prior rules and regulations.
Every time something happens that a tort lawyer can't find a law to sue under, the nanny state gets tasked to create such a law.
#1 J.T. Wenting on 2014-03-29 14:08 (Reply)
The tort lawywers and the "nanny state"not only reinforce each other, they are on the same "team". Personally, I think it's a quite concious effort for the same goals. Controls. Making a normally independent person ask himself "can I do this. I better check first."
#2 James Gleason on 2014-03-29 15:13 (Reply)
You might be interested in the website "Free Range Kids."
#3 Randy on 2014-03-29 17:15 (Reply)
Dr. Joy, yeah did all that stuff and lots of football without pads, street fighting with fists not guns, jumping ramps on bikes without helmets, etc. Amazingly still alive and a risk taker.
#4 bill on 2014-03-29 19:17 (Reply)
you just think you're alive... Without a government permit you're not alive, you're in fact not anything at all.
Papers please!
#4.1 J.T. Wenting on 2014-03-30 00:51 (Reply)

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