Faith in Humanity

    Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been really busy with school work and what not, but what I wanted to talk about is faith in humanity. If any of you have been watching the news then you know what is a HUGE news story right now (for those that don't click this link) The news media is taking this incident and  using it to make it sensational, it isn't enough that they have a man who is a pedophile and two people higher up than Joe getting canned. No they have to go after the only guy who did anything about it. He did report it two his two higher ups he tried to do something about the incident. There is no evidence of him trying to cover anything up. If you want further proof during his retirement speech all I repeat ALL of the players gave him a standing ovation. If the players who were closest to their coach didn't think he did anything wrong; I say this because they were not forced to give a standing ovation, why should the rest of the public.

    It bothers me that the public is so easily swayed that they can persecute a man that did what he could and was the only one to stand up and do what was right. It also bothers me that the university that this man took to 409 wins would so easily just give him up to this angry mob and basically force him to retire.

    If you do the right thing and are still considered the "bad guy" you have to question what type of society it is that we live in. But ultimately you have to question your faith in humanity.

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PETA XXX

Now everyone knows that PETA has done some over the top things in the past while trying to get their message across. (warning the links are graphic) From showing dead animals to scantily clad women. They even had a few TV ads banned because they just had gone too far. Now PETA wants to push the envelope even more and has decided that the racy ads are what get more people to listen to their message. Therefore, they think it is a good idea to open a PETA porn site.

Yes, shock is a very effective way to get your message across but when does it stop becoming a message and more of just a stunt/gimmick? What do you guys think do you think? Has PETA gone too far with this one or do you think this will somehow help them get the word out for the ethical treatment of animals?

Ordinary Life

This is going to be a tad bit ironic on a blog called "A Not So Typical Life", but what is so bad about living a normal human life? You know the one; you get married,  have a job, take care of your spouse and kids, get old and die. Nothing out of the ordinary, no huge achievements for history to remember you by. Just you enjoying your time on this earth with the ones that you love.

It seems today that people want the newest and greatest things. Like the new Iphone 5 or that new car your neighbor has in their driveway. Maybe the newest and greatest isn't material, maybe it's that coveted boss position at work, or that new twenty year old you get with if you had tons of money. Why is it that our society thinks you have to do something exciting to be happy? Now I'm not knocking those people who want to be the next Albert Einstein, or a more modern example Mark Zuckerberg. It's great that they have those aspirations if that is really what they want, but if it's what society has forced upon them then it is most certainly not okay.

As a society if we never tell the younger generation that it's okay to be normal, to be just average then can we really blame that generation for thinking they are a failure if they get straight B's? That kids will commit suicide because they weren't special enough? That is not a society I want to live in. I just want to tell them that it is okay to be average and to be normal. Normal people don't always succeed on the first try and that's okay.

I don't want to have a special life, I just want the normal one and that should be okay.
Just some food for thought.