In Durango a judge ordered two teenage girls to pay a neighbor $900 for distress caused by them giving her homemade cookies, no I didn't misword that. One night last July the girls decided to stay home and make cookies to give away rather than go to a dance where they were concerned that there would be drinking and foul language. They set plates of cookies with paper hearts saying 'have a great night' on neighbor's doorsteps, rang the doorbell, and ran away. They were doing this around 10:30 at night, so yes one could be startled, but $900? Apparently this incident caused so much distress to Wanita Young that it sent her to the hospital the next day with the fear that she was having a heart attack. Lighten up Wanita, many teens would have vandalized your home, they probably will now.
Professor Churchill is an obvious liberal nutcase, but he is a professor from CU Boulder so none of us here are really that surprised. (It will be a cold day in hell before one of my children goes to CU.) But what does surprise me is how the Board of Regents is handling it, they actually want to fire him; but because he is a tenured professor they are going to have a difficult time doing it. The outrage here and at Hamilton College in New York has been enjoyable for this conservative Republican, our governor Bill Owens (presidential nominee in '08?) has called for his dismissal. My only disappointment here locally was when Channel 9 News said the reason for his cancellation at Hamilton's was due to 'security concerns'; it wasn't security concerns, it was death threats for the professor and the administrators at Hamilton's. Security concerns are more like egging's or picketers.
A few years ago I thought of a saying that I have since heard others use, I claim it's copyright though. "Just because you have the right to do something, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do". I think I'll make that my new sign-off.
**Just Because You Have The Right To Do Something, Doesn't Mean It's The Right Thing To Do**