irony - noun : the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

You could probably sell the hard drive on eBay, make a few bucks. I wouldn't worry about scrubbing it tho. Nobody checks those things.

They don't.

Inflammable is when it's MORE than Flammable.

Just ask the Infamous El Guapo.

I'll back that up. I grew up in fairly conservative protestant church, and went to school at a fairly conservative protestant bible college. I don't think that you can say "Protestants generally..." but a large number of the more conservative protestants differentiate between "Catholic" and "Christian". In some of those circles, Catholicism is viewed as a cult. Enough so that if you search for the words "catholic" and "cult" you'll get a large number of pages debating the subject.

Are these metric handfuls? or nautical?

I was working at my desk, and our wonderful DoItAll was building up a server for us on a table behind me. Once he got to the point that it needed a name, he asked out loud, to no one in particular:

"Ok. What do you guys want me to call this?"

Without looking up, I said:

"Fred"

That's the name of the server to this day. It's the backbone of our intranet. No one has asked me to name a server since.

Sure it could. We'd just be hunting and gathering each other. Everyone can pitch in and help to serve man.

My Christmas bonus was a reduction in pay.

My ex's Christmas bonus was a reduction in work days.

My friend's Christmas bonus was a pink slip.

You'll forgive me if I fail to care that Google game their employees a smaller than expected bonus.

He didn't say that even a little. In fact, he was pretty clear on them being prescribed by a medical doctor.

But, to address the point you are raising, I more or less agree to a point. I believe that medication of any kind should not be prescribed to anyone, regardless of their age or development, without careful consideration of the consequences. And I believe that as a culture, we tend to drug ourselves too much. Partially because we're told that it will make things better, and partially because we're just lazy.

However, I think you missed my primary point. So I'll restate it.

Unless you know the full case history of the person in question, and unless you posses the professional knowledge required to discuss the case with other qualified individuals, you cannot make a reasonable judgment.

Are you familiar enough with Megan's medical history, her treatment history, her symptoms and her prescribed medications and dosages to speak intelligently about them with the treating physician? If so, then you should write a paper, or at least an article on the subject.

However, if you are basing your statements off the fact that antidepressants are carelessly over-prescribed in some cases, and completely unnecessary in other cases, without knowing for fact that this was actually the case in Megan's case, then I postulate that you don't actually know enough about what was going on to blame the parents for anything.

What happened here was pretty messed up. I don't know exactly where I fall in all this, legally speaking. Morally speaking, I'm pretty clear on the subject. But to blame Megan's parents for letting her be prescribed antidepressants, without being able to speak in depth about what was being treated, how and by whom, is pretty weak. Being a parent is hard enough as it is.