Hapless:
You busted me to the webmaster!???

You’re pathetic.

And so what is the life of a young man in America?

Either to be used, or to be useless?

If he is used, then he will at some point be used up..

If he is usless, then endless rounds of journeys, to doctors, and rehabs, medications, and ultimately sanctions, are unlikely to make him well adjusted, and useful once more.

Until one day, his family no longer has any hope, then they will distance themselves from him in a show of feckless disdain.

What is the life of a young man in America, to be blamed, but to not understand what went wrong.

The only answer he can give is, I don’t know.

One more thing: This is for Steel Toe. Yeah, I was thinking about all the wonderful aspects of being a young man in America while I was getting off the ship at Da Naang. I was thinking it was wonderful to be able to be conscripted and sent to a foreign war I didn’t want to be in. Those days are gone, but I’m here to tell you that life for the American male is no bed of roses. It all depends on your choice of parents, it seems.

The boy was raised in a climate in which his wrongdoings were bought off by rich parents until he decided he was entitled to do certain things. This brought about a feeling of superiority that engendered further feelings of entitlement. When the young lady said “no,” it’s likely his feelings of entitlement caused him to say “oh, yes you will!” And what do you want to bet Mommy and Daddy are shoveling money as hard as they can right now in an effort to get him off this rap, too. It’s time to pull the money plug on this little puke, and let him wallow in his own mess. Forty years in the slam might help him turn that corner.

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Parents spoiling their children create rotten children and rotten
children turn into rotten adults. Of course it always helps to have
contracted a unusually hubristic ego on the road to growing up
and substance abuse, particularly alcohol, pretty much adds to the
recipe as does muscle enhancing steroids that just seem to never
get the press when what seems a normal life turns bad wrong
when ‘athletes’ are involved. A form of cheating that is picked up
around peers but not without the some sort of part of the parents
whose own behavior could very well be a factor.

Life for males in America gives me blisters between my legs.

photoshock, you write:

“Not just the over-privileged whites who use their positions to influence the masses. But it is the African-American football, basketball and baseball player also. Theirs is the world for the picking, not the student who can do the best academically…”

Are you really meaning to tell us that African-American athletes enjoy unadulterated freedoms by virtue of their athletic status?  You’ve got to be kidding.  The rate at which African American NBA and NFL players(not to mention AA college athletes) are prosecuted is alarming.  Your suggestion is that there is no intersection between athletes and their race in our society.  You’re commentary is insightful only insofar as it describes the sport cult in general.  However, an African American athlete does not shed his or her race, class, gender or sexuality when they step into the lime light.

The young, American male lives in a featureless, vapid, Martian landscape where all the oxygen is reserved for the women.

CAP’N: “—-wellll uhhhhh, all right theun—-”

  Enjoy your posts—-keep it rockin’—-LOL———-!!

It’s certainly not the skin color or gender of the people, but the color of the money that everyone feels the need to pursue. Greed is the scar left on the loss of humanity in people. It is not a person but the money which is the subject of hero-worship most everywhere I see. It is what these children have learned from us and those before us, the rite to entitlement to a better life than others before them. The one truth from this lies in the Beatles song “Money can’t buy you love”, at least this time for sure. These are the times when one finds just how expendable they truly are. It is a shame the lesson needs learned this way. Maybe the biggest new challenge for this and future generations. Reverse the trend and reap the love, the correct way. Make sense REDHORSE? Not horses this time.

—-OOPS—PLEASE PARDON THE TYPO’S AND PUNCTUATION—-

Distrust of personal individual power by corrupt government,the war of the feminist press on the healty generative masculine, the legal removal of paternal authority, the destruction of the economy and the home by corporate thugs, and an amoral war machine result in a violent masculine. Mr.Shahzad and Mr.Huguely V are two sides of the same coin.

Decades ago American men attempted to open a dialogue about mentorship, soul and violence in young males. This was twisted by the press and attacked by feminist as dangerous. Now, when America is top heavy in gang and prison culture, and the military-industrial complex spends a fortune on wargame centers to urge young men to “be all that they can be”,the author uses a tragedy to attack white privilege.

    American violence in youth is color, class and gender blind. The “material girls” , with the help of the legal system, have done a great job in the reduction of the American male to the status of a wallet. Take the mixed messages about gender spun by advertising. Add the failure of our education system. Pour in a young male with no idea who he is and under the influence in conflict with a young woman who in many unstances has never had a relationship with a healthy adult male and—-well—there it is.

    American youth lives in a futureless narcissistic violent landscape. We all deserve better journalism.

photoshock - You are dead-on accurate regarding the hero/sports-figure worship in this country. It’s all about the money. Period.

As I [Ruth Marcus] wrote at the time of the Duke arrests, “These don’t sound like young men you’d want your daughter to date.”

Perhaps some you wouldn’t mind her dating, and some you would.  In any event, that’s up to her to decide.

So sorry, ‘the hapless capitalist,’ but it is not just white over-privileged sports figures that get a pass from the administrations, coaches and parents of sports figures.
We live in a cult of personality, the person who can perform the best, make the most touchdowns and score the most points for the team, gets a pass for everything that they do wrong. Not just the over-privileged whites who use their positions to influence the masses. But it is the African-American football, basketball and baseball player also. Theirs is the world for the picking, not the student who can do the best academically, but the sports star
that is the most adept and able to pull in more money
for the university that they attend and the professional sports team that can earn more money based upon the performance of that person.
Frankly, I don’t give a tinker’s damn about sports teams and their concomitant sales of sports accoutrement. I would rather have an academically sound and morally ethical university to attend, but those are few and far between. There is a dearth of academic scholarships due to the overabundance of sports scholarships that are given to those who can perform and earn the most money for the university.
Full tenured professors are being laid off due to economic cutbacks, yet every one of the sports teams that are thriving economically have the best of everything. What is the disconnect between these two divergent points of view? MONEY! LOTS and LOTS of MONEY for the universities.
From now on, I will certainly make my disdain for and lack of enthusiasm know for the men and women who
get paid millions and millions of dollars to play a child’s game. No one should be paid 50,60 and up to 100 Million U.S. dollars to play a game that is nothing more than a child’s game.
Also, we the people are supposed to be entertained and support these people with our cash, what little of it we have if any, give ourselves over to ‘hero worship’ of these so-called ‘superstars.’ Not on your
life ‘fella.’ I am not into hero worship whether it be a sports figure or a G-d.
When I need a hero to worship, then I will be dead and buried, for I will not give myself to the cult of personality for any person, place or thing that wants that much of my attention and mind.
Given the circumstances of this latest abomination of
murder and mayhem, let us not look only at the ‘white
over-privileged sports,’ but all of the cult of personality figures that supposedly exist in the realm of sports and other areas, with an eye towards gaining self-respect and self-worth, not the worth of
some team that we have nothing to do with and cannot influence the outcome of any game.

What was it that set Huguely off?..

Yeardly said, “no sex tonight.”

Yeardly flushed his beer.

Yeardly looked at him wrong.

Yeardly mentioned her old boyfriend’s name.

Yeardly told Huguely that he didn’t satisfy her.

Yeardly broke up with Huguely and he wanted to make sure she would never be with another man.

Yeardly fought back.

I live in a college community over-run with same sort of douche bags as Huguely.  Mark my words: Entitled white kids are fucking dangerous to society.  It’s the same concept as white collar crime; by far the most dangerous individuals in America are the greedy bankers on wall street.  Despite the overwhelming damages these (white) folks incur, very few of them face life-threatening repercussions for their actions—even when the system collapses.  Similarly, these entitled (white) kids walk around America’s college campuses like they’re little gods.  Many of the them (yes, bear with me) grab ass and rape girls like it’s no thing.  On these very same campuses, however, non-whites are being viciously targeted by law enforcement and school officials.  This is not some abstract tirade against white folks—this is the reality.  Visit your local college campus and check out the scene.  Huguely is representative of so many entitled (white) kids I know—and it’s so fucking unfair that they get to go on until something like this happens.  Maybe Huguely should have been put away (like his non-white counterparts surely would have been) after the second or third violation..