With the Daily coming out
With the Daily coming out so infrequently during the summer, this weblog is finding it difficult to maintain a brisk media-bashing pace. Fortunately, columnist Luke Smith comes through with his latest, “It’s gettin’ hot in here and the kids are dead,” about the Michigan woman who recently left her children in a locked car, where they died from the heat. It’s hard to think of a good opinion-page angle on this sad story, and Smith didn’t. Instead, he regales us with kid-barbecuing humor in a misguided attempt at outrage that leads up to his main point - that we should pursue a eugenics-based solution to this problem in the form of a test for prospective parents. Or, as he puts it, “Basically, if you don’t pass the test, you aren’t fit to have a child and subsequently your right to breed is revoked in the form of a government afforded sterilization.”
Having not offended everyone yet, he describes the woman, who was having her hair done at the time, as “feeling younger than her 25 years inevitably show,” deftly covering the dead-baby-humor-enjoying-pro-eugenics-past-high-school-women demographic.