The way America works today
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Let's see if I understand how America works lately. If a woman burns
her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding in her lap while driving,
she blames the restaurant. If your teen-age son kills himself, you
blame the rock 'n' roll music or musician he liked. If you smoke three
packs a day for 40 years and die of lung cancer, your family blames the
tobacco company. If your daughter gets pregnant by the football captain
you blame the school for poor sex education. If your neighbor crashes
into a tree while driving home drunk, you blame the bartender. If your
cousin gets AIDS because the needle he used to shoot up with heroin was
dirty, you blame the government for not providing clean ones. If your
grandchildren are brats without manners, you blame television. If your
friend is shot by a deranged madman, you blame the gun manufacturer.
And if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit and tries to kill the
pilots at 10,000 metres, and the passengers kill him instead, the
mother of the deceased blames the airline.

I must have lived too long to understand the world as it is anymore. So
if I die while my old, wrinkled rear end is parked in front of this
computer, I want you to blame Bill Gates, OK?