SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET:

THE NANNY STATE – From Fox:  "A 13-year-old California boy was reportedly placed in detention for sharing a school-prepared lunch with another student.  Kyle Bradford, a student at Weaverville Elementary School in Weaverville, Calif., was disciplined after sharing his chicken burrito with a friend who didn't like the cheese sandwich he was given by the cafeteria, KRCR-TV reported.  'It seemed like he couldn't get a normal lunch so I just wanted to give mine to him because I wasn't really that hungry and it was just going to go in the garbage if I didn't eat it,' Bradford told the website.  The Trinity Alps Unified School District, however, has rules that prohibit students from sharing food -- claiming that students can have allergies their classmates may not be aware of, according to the website."  So all the food sharing that used to go on in my school cafeteria led to epidemics?  Sneezing?  Wheezing?  Horrible medical events?  I don't remember any of that stuff.  I guess the new Golden Rule will read, "Do unto others as liability laws permit."

A WEEKEND IN CHICAGO – From the Chicago Tribune:  "A teen was shot to death and at least 14 other people, including a 12-year-old boy, were wounded in shootings between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.  The most recent shooting was a homicide that happened about 4:10 a.m. Saturday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, and the boy killed was the seventh person shot in that area in the West Garfield Park and Lawndale neighborhoods on the West Side.  The 16-year-old boy was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital. Police had a difficult time finding the boy because the 911 caller gave a location of Jackson Boulevard and Pulaski Road before the boy was found in an alley about half a block west of Pulaski just north of the boulevard.  The boy was able to give his name and said, 'Please don't let me die,' according to police."  Notice the deep interest of "leaders" who rushed to Ferguson to protest the police.  And the media is far more interested in the NFL.  Modern liberalism.

ANOTHER GENIUS HEARD FROM – From CNS:  "Shawn Donovan, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on Friday that if you don’t believe in climate change and support federal spending to fight it, you believe the earth is flat.  'The failure to invest in climate solutions and climate preparedness doesn’t get you membership in a fiscal conservatives caucus,' Donovan said at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. 'It makes you a member of the Flat Earth Society.'"  This kind of rhetoric will get worse and worse in Obama's last two years.  It is not science.  It's a kind of new-age religion.

September 20,  2014