KingOfTheWorld

Carroll Shelby would have killed it.

I stayed in Mexico Beach last October. It’s small and quiet. No hi rise condos. There’s not much to do but hang out on the beach. Only a handful of restaurants. It’s a 20 minute drive to Port St Joe, a cool little old Florida town with some good bars and restaurants.

Our entire government is a scam.

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Are you wish casting an assassination attempt? What's wrong with you?

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You’re such a fricking idiot. You spend 18 hours a day scanning this board, jumping into thread to find some technicality or turn angle to disagree and show people you’re the smartest person in the room. EVERYBODY is wrong and you’re right about EVERY fricking subject on earth. You find some angle to disagree then blow up the thread. There’s no way you have time for a career or profession. You’re insufferable and everyone here hates you.

I’d pay Chicken for mute button. He’s probably paying you.

Delete. Computer glitch.

My .2 cents…

I guess some would call my degree useless. I double majored in political science and journalism. My brain is not STEM-friendly. I gravitate toward language, history, politics, philosophy. I’m not dumb, but I’ve struggled my whole life with higher math above long division. I couldn’t solve a quadratic equation right now with a gun to my head. Without my ex-wife I’d have never passed college algebra. Squeezed by with Cs and Ds in HS.

I think there’s a place for social sciences, liberal arts and classical education. I’m a firm believer that to be a well-rounded individual you need to have at least a basic understanding of the history of America, the world and civilization, law, language and writing, economics, philosophy and religion, art and music. Sadly we’ve moved away from this in primary and secondary education. Many kids today couldn’t tell you who our first president was. The world would be a poorer place without the Sistine Chapel, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Mozart and Steely Dan.

Of course there are many useless degrees, even from prestigious schools. The question comes do we not pay for higher education in social science degrees as opposed STEM? I lean toward neither. Earned scholarships is a different discussion.

Another related question arises: of fairness. Should Sally, whose parents are hard working, tax paying Americans, not get her teaching degree paid for as opposed to Johnny who is good at math and wants to be an engineer? It can be a sticky wicket, but I see both sides.

Lastly, education for education’s sake is a good thing. I want fully educated Americans. It’s not only about income. Not everyone can be, or needs to be, a chemist or an engineer.

My son-in-law has one. I hate it. Otherwise he’s a great young man.

Committed Christian, spoils my daughter, takes care of her ( some may remember my daughter and I were diagnosed with cancer two days apart in June last year), hard worker, comes from a solid family. His dad’s an architect, mother is a teacher and his grandfather has an engineering PhD from Stanford.

I say all that to say you can’t judge a book by its cover.

But I still hate it.

Make Asylums Great Again

In the last 40 years I’ve been to seven countries in Europe and one in Central America. Walk into any bar with tvs and the only thing you’ll see is soccer.

Not as young but 1982, I was 17 and working a summer job at a veterinarian clinic as a vet tech.

He hired a secretary/receptionist who was in her early 30s. She started flirting, asking what deodorant I used, etc. Eventually she invited me to her house while her husband was traveling for work. They had horses and land and we initially made out in a barn on hay bales. Ended up in her marital bed. She had condoms in the bedside table. This happened several times.

I didn’t tell a soul for decades. So many married women are cheating sluts. It’s a fact. Argue with a brick wall.

Clearly Trump and/or climate change are to blame.