I despise it when someone drives drunk. They always seem to walk away fine while killing everyone else. It’s just senseless. They decide “I’m good” after they are already not in a position to make a rational decision. That’s not responsible at all. I had a designated driver if I was going to drink. And, if there was no one else to do it, I was the dd.

I agree that prevention is far better than intervention. Intervention has dire consequences of not planning or giving something forethought.

Davida

I’d probably have a hard time writing about something as raw to me as Columbia is for you; the fact that it took you mentioning that it was a raw subject for me to notice that the writing wasn’t quite your usual standard is a tribute in and of itself.

I agree with you; even a belt and suspenders approach to rocket safety isn’t enough (for people not used to the slang, this is having backup plans–the idea is that even if the belt fails, the suspenders will still keep your pants up). What we need is more belt, suspenders, clips, a drawstring, rolling up the cuffs so we don’t step on our pant legs, and paying very close attention to the location of the waistband.

Go Steph. Keep up the good gadflying.

I don’t know what to tell you, except to keep trying to walk your talk and hope the example has an influence on someone. Hopefully there’s a new spirit moving these days, as represented by our new President and his ideas about banding together as a society to confront and conquer our obstacles. We’ll see, I guess.