To begin, I want to thank you for stopping by my Friday Column today. I'm going to have a short one this week. We've had my mom living with us for over a month now, and it's going well. I do appreciate your prayers this coming Monday; however, as she will have her first eye surgery (left eye) to remove her lenses and replace them with man-made, to take care of her cataracts. Her right eye's surgery is scheduled for August 11th. She's been dealing with a quintuple whammy--1) cataracts making sight a bit fuzzy, 2) glaucoma damage (we'll evaluate what needs to done after the cataract surgery) giving her blind spots, 3) damage consistent with strokes (she had an episode in October 2006), 4) plus the only prescription glasses she has now are sunglasses and 5) they are an old prescription! We are hoping that the cataract surgery is successful and gives her some relief from all this. So thanks for the prayers!

My husband is a fan of This is True^®. He forwarded one of his emails a few weeks ago and I wanted to share Mr. Cassingham's writing with you all.

For those who don't know, from the website:

This is True^® is a weekly syndicated newspaper column by Colorado humorist Randy Cassingham. True reports on bizarre-but-true news items from legitimate newspapers from around the world (never "tabloids"). Each story ends with commentary by Randy -- a tagline which is humorous, ironic or opinionated. An online pioneer, True has been publishing online weekly since June 1994. You too can have such true stories of human weirdness sent to you once each week by e-mail for free. 

Zero Tolerance has definitely  found its way into This is True^® and he has got some great things to say about it on several of his pages. Please read: http://www.thisistrue.com/zt.html where he has some great stories and commentary. Some interesting comments from his readers are posted on http://www.thisistrue.com/zt2.html. He shows that Zero Tolerance is more than a "schoolhouse playground" issue on the third page, found here: http://www.thisistrue.com/zt3.html .

Feel free to come back and post your own thoughts on Zero Tolerance. I find that this kind of thinking (really "NONthinking") takes "common sense" out of the equation. Every case is different and should be judged based solely on the situation and what is right and wrong. When we start spouting "Zero Tolerance," we start to lose caring for the individual. It sounds real nice and pro-civilization, in a way, but once authorities don't care what the individual case is about, we're all in trouble.

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