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...Citizens for a Sound Economy, a lawsuit is filed every ten seconds of every working hour. These lawsuits are a problem, and not simply because they give cynical Canadians (like me) fodder for making fun of American culture. By perpetuating a mindset that is over-eager to assign blame to others, frivolous lawsuits are exceedingly costly, and give Americans a great excuse not to take ownership of their own lives and fates...
...fast-food companies, whose greasy, salty, sugary offerings Americans have consumed in excess for decades. By suing and attempting to extract punitive awards from these companies, obese Americans shift ownership for a very serious health problem to restaurants and away from themselves. Not only is this transfer of blame mildly delusional (induced, perhaps, by over-medication), it also damages efforts at addressing America’s obesity epidemic, which only stands a chance of being combated when Americans take responsibility for their own health. Efforts at holding McDonald’s liable for obesity are, therefore, highly counter-productive...
Excessive and frivolous lawsuits, and the culture of blame that they engender, are regrettable and damaging. As Americans continue to be enslaved by the compulsion to point the (severed, chili-stained) finger, however, the rest of the world has little choice but to sit back and watch in amusement...
...must not blame the failure of Havana on the Harbor on Mother Nature. By our reckoning, the event was doomed from the start—from the minute students saw the announcement in their inboxes and asked: “The UC’s throwing a booze cruise?” Future UC parties must strike a better balance between risk and reward. We appreciate and encourage the CLC’s attempts to innovate and seek out new ways of improving campus life, but isolated failures like Havana cannot turn into a trend. Nearly twenty-five hundred dollars...
...blame excessive TV watching for the problem of bullying, as one study does [April 18]; it has been going on for a long while. The solution does not lie in teachers or parents being vigilant. Bullying is often done stealthily and out of sight of authority figures. Usually the only witnesses are children. And they are the ones who can stop the bullying. I'm not suggesting physical violence, just verbal intervention and a show of disapproval. I know that can work because I used to do it when I was a little girl. Nobody ever hurt...