Jaden Smith, Will Smith’s son, is the perfect example of why parents can’t let kids raise themselves. I’m not just talking about letting them self-identify, whether that be gender or sexual orientation; I’m talking about not berating them when they say something so moronically stupid that it makes your head hurt. We have a responsibility as parents to teach our kids about right/wrong or consequential thinking. Jaden is infamous for his ‘philosophical’ tweets that make absolutely no sense. Recently he tweeted the following: If we exhale more than we inhale, we feed the plants. This will end world hunger. #letitout #veggies #likeduh. I’m not sure how you can physically exhale more than you inhale, but I have a sneaky feeling that it wouldn’t be good.

I saw a commercial on the NFL channel that featured a variety of men reading the definition of masculinity from the dictionary. At the end, the montage continued with them saying that the definition doesn’t describe them, and we must end toxic masculinity. No, we take the warning labels off everything, bring back lawn darts, and let it sort itself out. The gene pool is getting unbelievably cloudy.

There’s a new report, leaked by someone in the FBI, that proves Hillary’s private email servers were hacked by the Chinese. The front company for the Chinese government installed a program that allowed them to receive copies of all outgoing and incoming emails in real time. Tell me again why Hillary’s lawyers and associates aren’t being drug into court and pressured to turn on her?

Live your life in a way that we don’t have to lie at your funeral.

James Comey gave an interview recently in which he said Hillary was of course ‘guilty as hell’ for violating laws regarding the treatment of classified information. He justified his decision to not recommend charges by saying he didn’t want to end up committing suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head with a gun that couldn’t be found at the scene of his death.

Discover credit card has an offer for new customers. At the end of your first year as a customer, they will match all of the cash back rewards you earned during the year, “no strings, no catches, no nothing.” At the end of the spot, the announcer says, “restrictions and limitations apply.” I guess strings and catches are different legally from restrictions and limitations.

It won’t be long before the site of the first moon landing is a summer vacation destination. And no, it’s not in Florida!

Back to public school graduates. A college age girl asked for advice on Facebook. She said she was raped by her boyfriend, about a month ago. She didn’t know she was raped until “this morning.” You see, he promised to marry her if she let him have sex with her. But “last night” he caught me cheating on him and broke up with me. The police won’t side with me, what can I do? An older woman advised this young lady to lie; tell the police that he held you down and forced you to have sex. Tear up your clothes and get someone to hit you. She justifies this because the legal definition of rape is unreasonably strict, in her opinion. I don’t think we realize just how deep the indoctrination occurring in our schools goes.

If you think about it, the only difference between a first date and a job interview is that at the end of the job interview you’re not going to end up naked. Unless the interview is with Harvey Weinstein.

With the 3-day weekend upon us, here’s a safety reminder for you. Don’t add to the population. Don’t subtract from the population. Stay out of the hospital, newspaper, and jail. If you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly.

Have a great weekend!

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