You've got all these parents who are projecting their pathologies of fear onto their kids and those kids are understandably messed up. Tragedies happen and that you have to allow kids to experience their own fear and guilt and sorrow. It's the cover-up that really screws people over. Unfortunately, America specializes in cover-ups.
Steve AlmondI have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.
Steve Almond