Opinions

EDITORIAL

Anyone who finds relief in killing innocent lives is either driven by something the common person would never consider, is an abortionist or has a disdain for garlic.

Sunday a 19-year old who was bent on doing harm to people took measures to gain entry into the well-guarded Gilroy Garlic Festival south of San Jose, California. Security was present, so was fencing. All visitors had to walk through metal detectors. Except for him. He cut his way through the fence.

Someone determined on doing nefarious acts can be very difficult to thwart.

I’ve long heard about parents having a talk with their kids about “the birds and the bees”. Why specifically birds and bees? I doubt any parent having the discussion with their progeny ever truly mentioned either. If they do like my parents did, they didn’t ever have “the talk” at all. My mother gave me a book. It was uninformative, wasted paper and ink. I’d learned more as a farm boy watching cattle, dogs, and other animals mating than by any other method. Life observations can sometimes provide a better education about a physical act than anything a book might try to relate.