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What's wrong with America? I think it can be boiled down to one thing: no testicles. Which makes sense because America is referenced as a 'she' much like sailboats and the like, so, of course 'she' wouldn't have her eggs in one basket. But we're going down with the ship. What I'm really talking about is the idea of making a stand. Like The Dude in The Big Lebowski. "This will not stand, man." We've lost the ability to draw a line in the sand and say no. That ability has been taken away by the concept of civility. We can't be confrontational to other citizenry. We can't tell them what we really think. Somebody's wronged you in some way? Authorities tell you to call 911. Then the cops will mosey around in forty-five minutes or so and tell you that there's not much they can do. It's their word against yours. The degeneration of the ability to tell people how to behave has led to the kind of behavior that degrades the culture. Prime example: sagging. Fifty years ago that idea would have been nipped in the butt (sicftpos - spelling incorrect for the purpose of sarcasm), because somebody would have called them on it and said NO. What should have happened then and happen now is laughing out loud. Does anybody laugh out loud anymore? I wonder. It certainly is texted a bazillion times a day around the cel phone world, but I wonder if the person that does a text message or Facebook posting with LOL in it actually did laugh out loud? When I see some grown man walking bowlegged down the sidewalk, pants sagging, one arm being rendered useless because he's using it like half a pair of suspenders, empty wallet down somewhere near the back of his knees, I actually do LOL. What an ass. I don't mean the butt cheeks hanging over the north side of a belt line. I mean the idiot occupying the space between the ears. Fifty years ago more than one person would say "Hey man, you look really stupid." They say you hear that often enough, there might be some effect. Today? Nothing. Then there's the girls. "I want to have that man's baby!" Does anybody say "Ah, yeah, maybe not a good idea."? Nope. Theys all gettin sited 'cuz Loquacia gonna be havin' a baby! Brilliant. And it's her second! And she's seventeen! A future we can all build on! Years ago there was a thing called stigma. Girls that got 'into trouble' went off somewhere out of town. Boys that got 'into trouble' were sent off somewhere to a school for boys that taught them how to be men. Or the military got them into shape. Oddly the past in America has become the stigma. I'll have a big bowl of upside down America, please, and hold the nuts.