Do not attempt to blow your hair out of your eyes if you have just eaten a Listerine strip thing. Your eyes will thank you.

Also, you don't think teenagers are more likely to do stupid things than older people are?

I guess I think teenagerhood is so much shorter than your wholelifehood that most stupid things aren't done by teenagers. I'm not sure how to get my point across properly, sadly.

Which is no doubt assisted by me having done few notable dumb things as a teen. Neither did the people I hung out with, or, really, most of the people in my year at school, as far as I could tell.

I think I read somewhere that the human brain isn't fully developed until around age 25--especially in areas of consequences and reckless behavior.

I do think teenagers, while not necessarily stupid, commit more stupid acts based on the immaturity levels of their brains and lack of experience.

I also think if HJO had been drunk or high, the press would have been all over it with speculation. Teenage boys drive too fast, almost as a rule. He could have just lost control of his car coming home from a date, party or a movie.

But then I'm wondering if I'm just giving him the benefit of the doubt because I haven't seen him plastered all over the gossip press as a poster party boy.

I will speak only from my own experience: I, and my friends, did many stupid things when we were teenagers, most of which we would not do now.

This. Yes, DUI is bad, and if he was (utter unfounded speculation at this point) HJO could have killed himself, somebody else, many somebodies else, or all of the above. Thankfully he didn't. Whether this is a capital P Problem rather depends on HJO's behavior from here on out.

Skipping way ahead, because...

I noticed religious cereal yesterday. Ezekiel (let me google for the correct reference)...Ezekiel 4:9 cereal. Too odd. So odd it made me forget I had to ask them why they weren't carrying Alpen any more.

I'd seen that before, meant to look up the verse, then forgot about it. I looked it up today, when I came across it in my skim (which turned into a skip), because whenever I read a random verse someone's pulled out of context, for whatever reason, I like to read the whole chapter.

So. Yeah. I read all of Ezekiel 4. I'm stuck between wishing the people selling it had, and hoping they haven't.

Because context is important.

I do think teenagers, while not necessarily stupid, commit more stupid acts based on the immaturity levels of their brains and lack of experience.

This is my thinking. You hope they survive to grow out of it. And if they do but don't, well, then...Stupid! Unfortunately, I think this encompasses far too many people.

I also think if HJO had been drunk or high, the press would have been all over it with speculation.

Since MSNBC also had a Daniel Baldwin crash story with no speculation, I am led to wonder.

Yeah, 4:12 wouldn't be nearly as good for the marketing.

"A mass of jellyfish forced a Japanese nuclear power plant to slow part of its output this week after the slimy creatures blocked up the plant's seawater cooling system."

They fail to mention if the resultant giant mutant jellyfish can survive on land long enough to lay waste to Tokyo or not.

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Does your Pooh Casing extend beyond alcoholism?

No -- what I really meant was one bad driving incident wasn't necessarily an indication of a life-long struggle. Even if alcohol-related.

Anyway, even Drew Barrymore seems to have turned out OK in the end.