What a Family Outing!

There was a photo in the newspaper the other day of Janelle Pittman. She had her 6-year-old daughter on her hip. She was in Ferguson, Missouri -- confronting a line of riot-geared police officers. She had the little girl holding her hands up like those idiot rioters have been doing.

Family outings have certainly changed since I was a child. We went on a picnic or went to the park to the wading pool or saw a movie or played putt-putt and went to the ice cream store. I can't recall my mother ever saying, "I know what we can do today! Let's go to a riot!"

"Answers sought in shooting." The Dallas Morning News; August 14, 2014; p. 1A.