Social Chat

This blog is entitled Social Chat. It was started with students in mind, as I hope to create some lively discussion about my classes, sociology, and other miscellaneous things during this semester.

Today is the first day of class so it will probably be a fairly uneventful day. I was, however, saddened to hear about the death of Steve Irwin. Yeah, if you haven’t heard (and you would have had to been locked in a cave to not), the “croc man” died suddenly yesterday after being stabbed by Stingray. I say stabbed because I watched a news blip on CNN and saw the “tail” that reporters say “stung” him. Let me say, that was not a tail. It was a knife, friend. That had to have been one of the worse ways to die. What do you make of his death? On the one hand, it really saddens me that a man should die so young (44), while on the other hand, Steve Irwin both knew and loved the risks he took and died doing what he loved. What do you think? This makes me sort of kick back and contemplate my own live and the extent to which I’m living it to the fullest.