What do Facebook users and protestors have in common?
Enablers of the month:
The 100,000 or so people who joined a Facebook page supporting the actions of flight attendant Steven Slater, who slid down the emergency chute of a JetBlue airplane after instigating at least one confrontation with a passenger. We’ve honored many famous addicts to their deaths, from Marilyn Monroe to actor Health Ledger; I suppose it’s only fitting an unknown becomes known for his alcoholic antic and that we honor and enable him. As pointed out in "Drunks, Drugs & Debits: How to Recognize Addicts and Avoid Financial Abuse," we need to learn to “uncompromisingly disenable,” before tragedy happens.
Some 300 protestors at the LAPD’s Rampart Station, along with a similar number at a community meeting the next night, ...
