Like the complete genius that I am I got out of my lane and into the left turn lane and just sat there at the red light thinking that someone needs to bear witness, and I guess its going to be me. As I'm waiting at the light one of the men grabs a large stick and starts to come towards the man on the ground and I start to wonder if I'm going to watch a man get killed. At this point my brain is working both very quickly and very slowly. I can't do anything, since I'm stuck at the light, but at the same time my mind is racing trying to determine if the appropriate response is to call the police or roll down my window and yell at them to stop. I start looking around to see if there are any cops. Of course there are never any cops when you need them. So I sit there. And stare as the man gets punched and dragged around some more. And suck on my Frosty because its delicious and what else am I supposed to do I'm stuck at the light watching a man get pummeled.
Right before the light turns green though I realize that if I try to stop this beating all by myself, I'll probably get hurt. Which wouldn't help anyone but might attract more attention and get the cops here faster. So now I have no plan, I don't think their actually killing the man so I cant justify calling 911, and I cant get out of my car because that's just as invitation to get stabbed by a random group of men under an overpass. So I just keep drinking my Frosty.
As I make the turn I slow down to get a better look the 2 men get off the man and walk away, kinda like nothing happened, until the other man starts to throw karate kicks at the main man who was beating him. So I keep driving and make a u-turn making sure to come back the same way so I can watch them some more. The situation seems to have resolved itself, some what. The man appears to be fine, he's not bleeding or limping, he's walking around throwing karate kicks, and while one of the men is still holding a big stick he's no longer threatening the karate kicking man with it. So I continue on my way home, like nothing ever happened but still wondering what the hell it was that I just witnessed.
I'm still not completely what the appropriate response would have been. I'm a little disturbed that I watched a man get punched around and my response was to sit there on suck on a Frosty, but then again at least I didn't just keep on driving like I didn't see anything at all.
Yea that was weird. Here are the links that I deemed amusing enough to share with you:
* The best article I'd read about Kaavya Viswanathan. You should read it. Even if your tired of talking about her, because it puts her inside the larger context of super achieving kids and whatnot.
* Apparently kids lying about being virgins is news. Who knew?
* An ode to birth control. There's also this news about the 30% of German women who are childless by choice, another ode to birth control in a way. Personally I think its awesome, minus the fact that when you sample college educated German women 40% chose not to have children. Which leaves conservative religious folks not using birth control and knocking people up all over the place and leads to George W. being elected and me having to move to Cuba where there universal health care but no toilet paper.
* "The Bith Soccer Month Abnormality." Soccer stars' birthdays are typically at the beginning of the year (January through March). The reason? Practice more than innate talent makes people better at stuff, and kids born in the beginning of the year are normally picked more often for teams because they're bigger than their punnier peers who were born in the later months. This is good news for all of us because it means we can learn to be good at things even if we dont seem to have a knack for it.
* There's a war on porn. First those silly Jews and now this? Where's Bill O'Reilly when you actually need him? (Best part of the story though is the guy was dressed up as a ninja when he burned down the porn store. Who knew ninjas were working for the lord?)
* This is one of those articles you read, and afterwards you feel sad, but better for having read it. Its about women in the 50's and 60's who were unwed and pregnant and forced to give up their kids. Sad stuff, but worth reading since this country seems to want to regress back to the good ol' days where people lied about having sex and hid pregnant unwed mothers away and forced them to give up their kids.
* Why your college major wont determine you getting a super sweet job. via lifehacker
* Yesterday I mentioned this article that essentially blamed erectile disfunction in young men on horny young women, but didnt provide a direct link cause I was feeling lazy. Here it is though. You should read it and then read this wonderful counterpoint to it from Salon. Something else that bothers me about the article was this passage:
Keith Brodie, former chairman of the psychiatry department at Duke University, has been counseling male college students for 25 years. Fifteen years ago, none of his patients complained about having problems in bed. Now, he hears about them from as many as a quarter of them.
Couldn't it just be that 15 yrs ago society was a wee bit different and men didnt want to talk to anyone about having problems in bed? Or that expectations for awesome sexual performance were not as pronounced? That might have something to do with it. Maybe. Or maybe this woman is right and willing, vocal, young women are the biggest turnoff of all.
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