Wasn't it nice of the Philadelphia Inquirer to put two related story items on the same page rather than separate them like another newspaper did Monday.
That vile teenager, a mere Hamburg-Branfeld sprout, posting her Sweet 16 B-day invite on Facebook without letting more than 1,500 people know that it was for 'private' consumption only! Scan over to find a similar German sprout being the cause of over a thousand people jamming the hospitals of Hamburg, Germany. I'm sure the 100 police officers needed for crowd control at the girl's party had more fun than the hospital staff dealing with bloody diarrhea.
Not to make light of sad, even tragic, occurrences in Germany; but why do glaring ommissions (private and polluted) blind us to the real tragedy today. What was evidence of the "Me Generation" has evolved rapidly, like a bacterial strain, to dire-rea-ports of a new, more debilitating 'Me Only' catastrophe. At least the 38-year-old man in Utah who went to dispute a $25 fee on his medical bill did not ask police or EMT personnel to handle the situation when it went south. No, he was ready with 2,500 pennies and the demand for a receipt.
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Oh, but I'm just now getting word that the dear innocent German sprout probably is not the culprit imagined. Reminds me of the New Yorker cartoon that has one little girl telling another, "I like the Easter Bunny. I find him less judgmental than Santa Claus."
Is it 'me only' or are you getting sick and tired of irresponsible entitlement?
