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So, here I am at the lab. My personal life has falling into some completely warped episode of "General Hospital", i'm broke, the cigarettes are almost gone and i'm pissed. Now, It must be said, i'm more pissed at the things going on in my life (it's driving me to the brink of rational thought and sanity), but I am honestly pissed at the current developments involving a dead girl, two morons, some parents and Slayer. I don't know why this pisses me off, I mean it has become so common place in American society to blame our problems on EVERYTHING else but ourselves. This is no different, and it just continues the long, sick tradition of such.

Buy now, we've heard the story about Slayer. They're being sued because some dumbass parents think THEY are to blame for this tragedy. Which, as anyone who is; A-a rational person OR B-NOT a lawyer knows, this is not the case and not the truth. This is just a case of some slimy lawyers and distraught parents trying to drown their sorrows in the be all end all cure of the moment (well, the cure of all time)-Money. Money makes the pain go away, or so the line of thinking seems to go. Again, this is just another example of the sad history.
Blaming music (and movies, and television, and books, etc, etc) for tragedy, chaos, violence, etc has been the 'thing' to do for many, many years. I mean, shit, in the 50's parents blamed the amount of mayhem and sex their children were involved in on Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. (granted Lewis did end up marrying his 13 year old cousin..but that's beside the point) What they should have realized is that, hey, these kids were young and full of hormones. It's just they need a scapegoat...and music is the obvious one. It's so 'out there', so easily available. Which also makes it the scapegoat of choice.

I have a suggestion, if we're gonna sue, let's do this shit right..I suggest the following.

1. Anyone alive in the 70's sue Steve Rubel and the others involved in Studio 54 (for those that don't know, Studio 54 is by far the most notorious night club of all time). I mean, if you go along with the current line of thought, Studio 54 is responsible for homosexuality, AIDS, bad clothes, promiscuous sex and the Bee Gees. The Bee Gees!!?!? Jesus! We should sue for that reason alone!

2. Someone sue Eminem and Fred Durst for making it in vouge for suburban white boys to walk around in baggy clothes, wearing backwards baseball caps thinking they are 'thugs from the ghetto'. I personally would get involved in this law suit because I would like to walk across campus, or though the mall, without having to see an a disciple of this line of thought.

3. Find out whoever invented the whole Goth thing and sue the fuck outta them! But, Goth kids do amuse me. Apparently the irony is lost on them that while they walk around dressed in black, wearing eye make up and trying daily to be more and more pale while claiming to be so "different, original and unlike everyone else" that they are, in fact, JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER FUCKING GOTH KID WALKING ON THE PLANET!! This brings me humor. But still, we should sue!

In conclusion, to the humor is that we're so busy trying to figure out what went wrong with kids, what made them do these bad things that we find ourselves looking in the wrong places. And, even more disturbing than THAT is the fact that it's become almost passé to even remember the principles involved in these tragedies. Example (best example that is), everyone remembers that the Columbine murders were blamed on Marylin Manson, Rammstein, etc. BUT, who remembers the names of the two depraved fucks who actually went on this Kill Crazy Rampage??? Honestly, do you? Without looking it up on CNN.com or some search engine, can you honestly remember they're names? What about any of the victims names?? I know 95% of you don't. To prove this fact, I did an impromptu survey earlier today. Between classes, after my last class was over and at dinner I asked five different people with nothing in common other than friendship with me if they could name the two musicians most often linked as the reason behind the Columbine murders, then, I asked them to actually name the two killers. All five correctly said Manson and Rammstein...only ONE knew the names of the killers, and he could only remember first names.
I rest my case. And, yes that's my opinion, but unlike usually there is no "i might be wrong", I know for a fucking fact i'm right..and if you think about it for a second, honestly think about it, You'll know i'm right too. 

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