Future Engineers of Ford, GM, and Chrysler...

Yes, the future of edumacation is bright in America, especially in math! I guess, we just have to make things more cool, fun, and try to relate the lessons more to celebrities or hip-hop in order to "inspire" the fine young minds of America. After-all, everything should be fun and easy when related to school work. After-all, taking the BAR exam, MCAT, etc. are just loads of fun! So why shouldn't school work be a blast too!?

I mean, with smart-asses like this how else do we expect to live up to contemporary American students' expectations of self-entitlement, something for nothing, and snarkism? We just need more technology in the classroom because Einstein and all the great math/science minds of the past had loads of technology in their classrooms. Yeah, that's why they can't learn. Or maybe, if Britney Spears, 50 Cent, Miley Cyrus, and Lindsay Lohan would come out with instructional math music videos or movies the kids these days wouldn't be such lazy asses who expect to be able to buy everything on credit and be supported by the state for the rest of their lives?

They must be trippin'

What the fuck? Did his mother name the kid while high on Oxycontin? Were they high? And what's up with all these ghetto/hillbilly names white people are coming up with these days? I see it all the time in the schools and on xbox live (a whole other story). Man, they should invent a new word called ghetoO'Billy or something. There we go, I just did. Now, don't say I never did anything with my life. I invented a new word-GhetoO'Billy!

I bet if they have a daughter they'll name her Trick.

Tit for Tat...

That'll work, it always does!

Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said:

"Japan cannot avoid the tsunami of the world recession, but it can try to find a way out."

"The world economy is in a once-in-a-hundred-years recession. We need extraordinary measures to deal with an extraordinary situation," he said.


Huh? How do they know this happens once every hundred years? Didn't this just happen in Japan like fifteen years ago? And if it happens every hundred years why didn't world financial leaders expect this to happen? They're acting like this is a natural occurring phenomenon in nature, kind of like El Nino or hurricane season. You expect me to trust the words of the same arrogant assholes that got us into this mess in the first place? If they were so fucking smart they should have seen this coming a mile away, but they didn't. Now they're claiming it's just "something that happens once every hundred years". Sounds like one big fuck up that happened as a result of human arrogance and greed.

Well, at least the world falling apart will clean the slate for real change. Things fall apart for a reason-in order to create real, lasting change things have to be destroyed first. You can't fix a intrinsically broken system by working within the broken system. Our system is on its last legs. The machine is about to break, for good. Humanity must evolve its way of thinking, its economy, its politics -- everything -- if it plans on surviving. Good riddance. Let the world fall apart. Hells a coming and payback is a bitch, especially when rents way over due.

It's all 20/20 in hindsight. Too bad none of these fools had or have any real foresight.

Chrysler: Thanks for investing in us, America

What, you mean I had a choice? Great, thanks. Investing in failure and hollow dreams is one of my favorite, All-American past-times. Merry motherfucking X___________mas. Thanks for the lump of coal, Santa; I mean Uncle Sam.



Wow, if they followed through on any of the things that "Chrysler is committed to" they wouldn't have gotten into this mess in the first place. I guess, the last thirty years of mismanagement, shotty engineering, and ugly cars will just be their version of a Mulligan. Besides, we shouldn't have expected an American car company to provide: "cars and trucks you want to buy, enjoy driving, and will want to buy again", "deliver products with the best quality and value", and "improve fuel economy" on their own. I mean, that's just crazy, especially when the Japs and Krauts can do it for us!

After-all, that's the real American dream-to have someone else do it for you and make a shit-ton of money at the same time! Hard work, innovation, tenacity, accountability, etc.-those are just myths of the past! Money for nothing! We can have it all! Now that's the future. Shit.

Edumacate yourself!

Great, another private school educated administrator without a single day of real-life public school teaching experience. Well, at least he knows how to say the right thing (is a career politician) and won't have his high minded-ideals bashed against the wall (there's a reason why over 50% of teacher quit within three years, and it's not the pay).

I love his idea of residency programs for teachers seeking advanced degrees in education. How long does he think teachers will stick around in urban schools after they've gotten their Masters/Phds? How many days did he stick around teaching after he got his advanced degree? Oh yeah, he hasn't taught a day in his life.

Oh, and bribing students to do well in school is a great idea. As if the value of an education isn't incentive enough. Shouldn't we be teaching students about thinking in the long-term, especially with America's fiscal/credit/savings crisis? Doesn't bribing them to do well in school just support the instant gratification, "now, now, now", "me, me, me" mentality of America?

Whatevar, at least it all sounds good and that's all that counts these days.

One more thing: I love the idea of accountability just so long as the students, parents, and communities are drawn into the equation of accountability. After-all, it takes a village to raise a child-not just a teacher. Therefore, all of the blame shouldn't be placed on the teacher for the failure of the student. However, blaming the teachers for everything is an extremely politically convenient "solution" to the nation's education problems.

It's times like these that I miss a good ole tar and featherin'

Those close-set, beady eyes just scream schemer.
And is that hair even real?