Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 23, 2016

Of course what you learn in college will be obsolete. We have made our colleges and universities into trade schools, and trade schools on the make, at that.

Not all of it will be obsolete, unlike in some areas most of the world isn’t out of date in a few years. Ah to be in first grade and to think such silly simple thoughts…

In first grade, you’ll learn those axioms.

In college, you’ll learn why they’re true.

Kid’s got her priorities right!

At the beginning, school is about learning the facts and figures that others have discovered before you. By the end, if you work hard enough, school is about adding to those discoveries for future students.

learning how to learn

She will discover in time, that farts aren’t always funny…..Especially when they turn out not be farts….

She has a good foundation.

liberal arts colleges/universities…training the young to think like leftist socialist Clintonians My college days had you forced to sign documents saying you would support and defend the constitution of the U.S. before they would issue you a diploma…where is Joe McCArthy now that we really need him.??

More often, in her life, 1 plus 1 equals 10 but if she doesn’t pay attention, the other factoids she spouts may have some persistence.

About Miss Plainwell’s comment:.Our school district brags about its top high school. Computers for every student, nice facilities, AP courses, etc. The smart kids get into that school, and go on to college..The other 80+ schools, not so much. I work in an elementary school where the computer lab is in a building built in 1928. 30 computers for 400 students. 70 percent poverty rate. We get the kids (for the most part) ready for middle school, but we know a lot won’t make it out of high school. The poor kids really don’t stand a chance. People give colleges and universities millions of dollars, we’ve got nothing. Last year, our overpaid stupidintendent got a big raise (for what, I don’t know), as a ‘goodwill’ gesture he gave it to the top high school, as if they need it.

“Farts will always be funny.”

Only if you’re Adam Sandler, and if you think the dumbing down of the American public is desirable. (Which explains the Trump candidacy.)

Just a one-syllable grunt from BigPuma today. Now that’s a good day! Ain’t it?

At second glance, that “Ugh” from BP makes more sense. He’s probably not a musician and the line about minor chords sounding lonely probably went over his head. I have to admit that would,rightly get by most non-musicians. He was probably in awe of the line in Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” mentioning “the minor fall and the major belief.” The ugh could also be from the word fart, BP being such a genteel, proper man except when he’s referring to child as a “tool”. But he looks down on me cause I once called him a dick. Jeez. I wonder where I’d get that idea.Damn fool is what he is. And the child’s observation about the sunrises and sunsets was beautiful and right on the money!

But what about Terence and Phillip?…..

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You kknow nothing about blacklists. There is no way to defend against them because you can’t prove who the criminal (blacklister) is, yet their cowardly vengeance is followed by spineless lackeys afraid of being on one too. There is not one official blacklist, but many little ones, most little more than a petty rumor mill.

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Most of those victims of McCarthy’s lust for power, or the House UnAmerican committee, lost wealth their talent entitled them, but worked under assumed names or went into exile to free countries – much like Herman Meyer changed his name to Willy Brandt and went to Norway, then to Sweden (where he was in charge of housing for the Danish Jews in the boat lift), but returned to Germany after the war to lead the Socialist party and be mayor of Berlin during the Airlift. Socialists are traditionally the strongest against communism, contrary to fascist propaganda. When I was in exile, I lived under a socialist government, and while I am well aware of its flaws, I made more money than before or since. Yeah, taxes were 20% more than in the US, but I got 30-35% more for that money than before or since,

It’s cyan and yellow that make green, not blue.