http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/james-holmes-aurora-shooting-medical-student_n_1689794.html
After the obvious, I think about the failing school system. Huffington post word limits really bork up the thought process...so I'm pasting stuff here....
As a divergent thinker, this will be my notepad.
I was raised by teachers and they were always talking about the dummy-down of America. That goes back to the 70s. The household moto was "Do NOT depend on schools to educate yourself or your children". I couldn't afford to jump hoops or pay for a paper that went higher than BS. In my family, that's a drop-out. I should be a billionaire in 5...4...3..
As soon as I find MY garage. The metaverse is calling.
One day, the phones went down in the call center so we got to know our cube-mates on the corporate plantation.
(queue the movie, "Office Space" and "Dogma" )
God bless View Askew
So yeah, Mercury went retrograde and the east coast wasn't receiving calls.....none. I worried, but they assured me that the west coast needed something to do. Oh how pwned I was.
I got over it and enjoyed at yacking at THEM for awhile. We ALL needed a break from Monsterboard.
We discussed the likelihood of our department getting sold.
How can they do without us?
Someone pointed to the Knowledge Base. We gasped, "They Couldn't!"
He said, "They can!",
"We're hosed"
"Now what?"
"Anything but THIS!"
And people ask, Where are OUR Platos, Where are OUR Beethovens?
My answer : "Two Cubies down"
I started to think of how people decorated their cubies. Chances are, this job was funding their true passions. Considering the mentality in the room, we could have done quite well with our own garages. *cough*
I saw Rembrandt's and Escher's, Dale Evan's and gurus....aligning printers and rebooting servers.
For word count's sake, let's just say personhood disgraced their founding fathers.
(queue the Matrix)
These programs are underfunded and it's no surprise that the mental deficients are the ones "beautiful minds" have to deal with.....
We need a third party led by Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
It's difficult to express what it feels like to be stuck in a 5th grade class for the duration of your educational and professional career.
It's an evolutionary fact that the upper crust needs to be scraped off once in awhile.
