What’s the Difference Between a Hockey Mom and a Pit Bull?
Well, aside from the presence of opposable thumbs required to drive a mini-van, quite a few other things as well, it turns out.
For one thing, Hockey Moms, or really, any kind of mom, have a responsibility to themselves and their families to make rational and intelligent decisions based on facts about the best way to raise their kids and manage their lives. If there was a hunk of raw meat sitting on the ground a few feet away, and one of their children was wandering into the pathway of a maximum security bus transport from the local penitentiary at the same time, what would she do? What would a pit bull do? What would you do?
While it’s easy to make simple, sweeping statements that endear oneself with a certain audience, the reality is that knee-jerk decisions based on instinct, or even worse, ignorance of belief, are clearly not the way people responsible for the lives of others should make decisions.
Convictions based on logic, reason and real-world experience used to count for something. Hopefully they will, again.
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