Sometimes I really love the news. Today, Nov. 19 is a wonderful day for the absurd. First, the survivors of Jonestown want to build a memorial to the 900 people who died there 32 years ago. This will be, I assume, a memorial to the gullible nature of humans. Most of those folks willing went with a nut case to a compound in South America and willingly drank the poison drink. What the survivors should have done at the time was to get their friends and family out of there.
Next, students are protesting fee hikes at California's university system. That what they do, drink beer at night, protest by day. The folks who run the university are saying the state isn't giving them the support, which appears to be true. Students should work to change the reality on the ground, rather than protest it. Don't they realize that the same cutting of resources at the university level is also happening at K-12.
Maybe, rather than choke off our educational system gradually, we should cut to the chase and close all schools, higher and lower education, thus turning our gradual decline to a third world country into a freefall.
And when some idiot says we can't raise taxes to pay for education because it's a job killer, first spit in his eye and then explain that there's no worse job killer than an illiterate, uneducated population. Perhaps, before long I'll be able to command a six figure income simply because I'll be one of the few left who can read and write.
All that great stuff in the paper, and I didn't even get to the section with the celebrities and all of their romantic and addiction problems.
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