Did your mother give you an unfair advantage that caused you to harm mother earth today?

That unfair advantage would be reading you bedtime stories.  That's right.

Bernie Goldberg reports on a British academic who says that "societal unfairness" is created when parents read bedtime stories to their children.  Goldberg quotes the good professor as writing,  “Evidence shows that the difference between those who get bedtime stories and those who don’t — the difference in their life chances — is bigger than the difference between those who get elite private schooling and those that don’t.” 

This learned man has a solution too:  abolish the family.  “One way philosophers might think about solving the social justice problem would be by simply abolishing the family,” says the professor. “If the family is this source of unfairness in society then it looks plausible to think that if we abolished the family there would be a more level playing field.” 

Well, why not?  If these political Deep Thinkers have banned books, movies, liquor, guns and heaven knows what else, why not ban the family?

Now let's say your Mother gave you an unfair advantage by reading you bedtime stories and to honor her on this day you sent her flowers.  Well that's bad too.

In a Washington Post column titled Flowers may be nice for Mom, but they’re terrible for Mother Earth, another Deep Thinker puts it this way:  "How’s this as a gesture of love for the woman who bore you? Chop off the reproductive organ of a plant and send it to her in a box tied up with a pretty bow."

Flowers are evil because they come from other countries, are bathed in toxic chemicals and use up a whole lot of energy for storage, shipping and delivery.

Is there a way to love your Mother without raping mother earth?  I have no idea.  I just know I had to share all this nonsense with you.