This blog is intended to both poke fun at, and shed light on, the confluence of a couple of phenomena of the internet age: the level of discourse one finds on “comment” areas of newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc., and the polarization of the nation into just two camps (liberal or conservative, pepsi or coke, tastes great or less filling).

I've called it “Be Reasonable” to bring focus to what is out of focus: that people don’t seem to be able to engage in reasonable discussion or reasonable disagreement, but instead act in disrespectful ways to feel like they’ve made their point. Of course, this does nothing of the sort. So, I am here to implore people to please, take a look at the items I post here…see yourself in them…and “Be Reasonable” for once.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Err Marshals


Quietly this weekend, the Transportation Security Administration (you know, the people who frisk your 90-year old meemaw and your 6-year old daughter for any dangerous contraband at the airport) announced that they had fired eight Air Marshals after an investigation that began in February concluded that these eight drank alcohol during lunch while attending training.  This was in violation of agency policy and comes on the heels of the Secret Service prostitution debacle in Colombia.  The information came from one of their own – another Air Marshal that was present at the time.




So, these were federal law enforcement officers, several of which were armed at the time and at least one of which was a supervisory marshal, drinking alcohol on duty in a public place and in clear violation of agency policy.  One might conclude that this shouldn’t be all that controversial a decision.  One would be wrong…




Well that seems a little harsh for an extra “o”…





Yeah…thanks for not naming any agencies.  Mighty big of you.




Hmmm.  I’m not really sure that “changing oil” is in the TSA’s job description so it’s good you don’t go there for oil changes.  I mean, I don’t go to Jiffy Lube for ice cream either but I’ve never done that because they have “no standards.”




Interesting point “KnowerFact.”  I remember my momma always told me, “Sonny, if you want to be rich and famous you best be working on becoming a government worker.  The public holds them in the highest regard and they always score the most tail.”




A month?!?  You think this stuff writes itself “Karsim”?  Hell, I’m having trouble getting one crappy blog post out of it, no thanks to you.




Thanks for clueing us in “azcat87.”  We probably wouldn’t have been able to pick up on it from the exclamation point with no more words following it.




Well, hell.  Maybe this stuff does write itself.  Takes one to know one, “Drunkin Mom.”




You don’t drink by choice?  Does this mean you drink by force?  So sad…




I’m a dolt, he’s a dolt, she’s a dolt…when did we become a society that can’t tell the difference being committing a crime and violating a workplace policy?  They were fired, not arrested…you dolt.




Yeah, cause that’s the same thing.  Thanks “Paul Statz” for finishing us off with something totally irrelevant to the discussion.

Be Reasonable.

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