I work in a school, and whenever I see evidence of this kind of self-destructive behavior—kids burning themselves with salt and ice, using an eraser to rub off skin, etc.—I like to ask them, "Why don't you just run face first into a brick wall?"

Oh, well, if people laughed, then it must be okay.

Dana Stevens and Christy Lenore are pretty cool, too.

"Sexting with nude photos is just today's naked polaroids."

Aren't all rules open to interpretation? I think that's pretty much unavoidable.

Well, Mr. LaFone, I think it's good to have rules in place like the one cited above that apparently prohibits "verbal, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature made by someone from or in the educational setting." I believe there is a need for such a rule—I would guess that a school district I know of is not the…

Depends who you ask.

"teaching students there's a time and a place for behavior."

"A regulation making it an infraction for teenagers in engage in verbal, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature was a stupid rule"

"I never said we are not in the same time."

Mr. LaFone, I'm honestly trying to make sense of what you claim you're saying.

"[W]e are neither in the same respect nor are we in the same time."

Mr. LaFone, you are recommending that the rule be kept on the books—but also recommending that such a rule not exist.

Thus, you are in favor of it both existing and it not existing.

Aristotle's law of noncontradiction: "One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect and at the same time."

Okay, let's see if I understand now.

There is a "stupid rule that shouldn't exist."

You want to get rid of this rule de facto—yet keep this rule de jure.

And yet you think "stupid rules should [not be] allow[ed] on the books."

Sorry, Mr. LaFone, but it still seems contradictory.

"Personally, I would chuck the rule de facto and make the 'punishment' for the rule absolutely nothing. That does not invalidate the rule."

Did I misrepresent you—or did I quote you ver batim and use your words against you? Here I am quoting you again—you think it's a "stupid rule that shouldn't exist." YET, if it does exist, then there should be a "proportionate punishment." Sorry, but that still seems a little contradictory to me, since you…

So, "[m]aking rules to keep teenagers from engaging in verbal, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature is stupid"—yet you also recommend that people "send them off to detention if it's bad enough." Well, which is it? No stupid rules (and therefore no penalties), or some rules and some penalties, like…

"Do these people not remember what it's like to be a hormone raging teenager?"

This reminds me of the recent controversies over the word "niggardly," which means "begrudgingly," has an unclear etymology, but certainly sounds racist.

Also good for running: almost anything by the Ramones. Most of their songs are pretty short, so a bunch of their songs in a playlist works for me.