Too young to be drinking?

While looking on many of my fellow bloggers sites, I saw that many are discussing the drinking age in the United States. So I googled stories on underage drinking and found a story that was published February 29. While it may not go with the current thread, I found it rather disturbing and decided to share it with you. You can read the full story here .

Basically, an abused 3-year old girl was found drunk. Not just a little intoxicated but with the blood alcohol content twice the legal amount for an adult. Her injuries were signs of being severely shaken. And her lips showed clearly that she was force fed the alcohol. Also, the girls 4 year-old sister may have been witness to all the abuse.

This all took place in Cincinnati, Ohio just hours from my own hometown. I don't understand how someone can be so cruel? Obviously a child of only 3 cannot consume even the legal limit for an adult, let alone twice that. What were they thinking? where are there morals?

I don't have children of my own but I can't imagine doing that to my own child or someone else's for the matter. Yet, the mother is indeed a suspect. As she should be. How can someone be so senseless? Did someone think this would better the child's life at all? Or maybe they just weren't thinking.

Everything is bigger in Texas

First and foremost, I would like to apologize for my lack of blogging. My computer crashed and the computer lab in my dorm is actually nonexistent. I will now have to blog twice tonight and twice tomorrow to make up for it so get ready for a blast of blogging from yours truly. Moving on...

Everything is bigger in Texas. We've all heard it. From big hair to big hats, Texas prides itself on its size. And why shouldn't it? According to Newsweek, if Texas were its own country, it would be ranked 40th in size. That's pretty big when you consider how many countries there are on the Earth. Something else Texas does in a big way is apparently its CO2 emissions. If Texas were indeed its own country it would have the 8th highest CO2 emissions level. Yikes.

However, it's not just Texas's CO2 emissions that have environmentalists concerned. Newsweek says that Texas's 23.5 million residents use nearly 3,000 more kilowatt-hours of electricity every year than the average American. Also, 1 in 4 Texans drive a gas- guzzling pick-up truck. Not that that should come as any surprise to anyone.

I feel like Texas is somewhat of a big brother to the rest of the nation. It should be a role model for other states because of it's history, its culture, and simply because of the influence it seems to have on the rest of country. Shouldn't they be doing more to fix this environmental crisis going on in their state? Especially when global warming is such a hot issue right now. Texans should take a stand to protect the environment but instead they seem to take pride in the the fact that everything is bigger in Texas. Including their pollution levels.