Let them eat cake, lots and lots of cake...(Movie note to Dian at the end)

Fri Mar 12 13:55:08 2004

Amen, to the Mencken quotation. I think the education talk is just more BS--the powers that be are not at all inclined to advance the educational level--the dumber the better when it comes to buying in to the controlling party's cynical appeal. A superintendant retiree I know estimates that 90% of what children learn takes place in the home and 10% is what is learned in school. That gives the notion of home schooling new cache as the schools merely babysit while the parent's education batteries recharge while the kids are away six hours a day. How recharged the parents can be after their 8 hr. work day is doubtful, however. So the college entrance exams have to be written in lower and lower age appropriate language. "Dumb and Dumber" is more descriptive of America than a movie title these days.
One of the organizational rules I once heard was that those below the top were not chosen if they smarter than the one at the top. Given GWB's statements in Igor's poem that bar is now lower than any I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. There is a movie playing here during SWSX called "Bush's Brain" based on a book about Rove. I hope Vulcan Video can get ahold of the tape. I really want to see it.
FM

 --- On Fri 03/12, Wayne Johnson < cadaobh@shentel.net > wrote:
From: Wayne Johnson [mailto: cadaobh@shentel.net]
To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:08:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Fwd: Frat of the Land--Restauranteur price fixers

"...Grossly obese patrons by the dozens gather there daily. " As H.L.Mencken is reputed to have said, some 70 or 80 years ago, "No one ever went broke underestimating the American Public." B