18.4.07
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20.3.07
The stupid are always with us
Study Finds One-Third in D.C. Illiterate
This, via Matt Drudge, who one can rest assured isn't making race an issue by highlighting D.C.'s functional illiteracy rate.
Fact is, one-fifth of the country is functionally illiterate. Personally, I'd love to see a "literacy comprehension" rate; that is, the percentage of the American adult population that can read day-to-day necessities - things like instructions on automated tellers, bill payment machines and the like - but choose to play stupid and screw something up for themselves.
I bet we'd find more than half of this country in that group.
But a one-fifth functional illiteracy rate is embarrassing enough.
This, via Matt Drudge, who one can rest assured isn't making race an issue by highlighting D.C.'s functional illiteracy rate.
Fact is, one-fifth of the country is functionally illiterate. Personally, I'd love to see a "literacy comprehension" rate; that is, the percentage of the American adult population that can read day-to-day necessities - things like instructions on automated tellers, bill payment machines and the like - but choose to play stupid and screw something up for themselves.
I bet we'd find more than half of this country in that group.
But a one-fifth functional illiteracy rate is embarrassing enough.
19.3.07
Enjoy it while it lasts, punk
High court hears 'Bong hits 4 Jesus' case - CNN.com
Snips:
"The Supreme Court Monday debated the case of a high school principal who suspended a student over a "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," banner displayed at a school-sponsored event.
"The free-speech case tests the limits of student messages officials could try to suppress.
"Joseph Frederick, then 18, unveiled the 14-foot paper sign on a public sidewalk outside his Juneau, Alaska, high school. Principal Deborah Morse confiscated it and later suspended the young man.
"At issue was whether Frederick's free-speech rights were violated and the discretion schools should be allowed to limit messages that appear to advocate illegal drug use."
The day you leave the cover of school and take a job, you can cash in your free-speech rights. I can't display "controversial" stickers on my vehicle (since it's parked in a work parking space), can't say what I want to in the workplace or even outside the workplace if someone knows where I am employed, I can't take advantage of my state's decriminalization of marijuana use because my company has random drug tests that can force a one-weekend-a-month pot smoker out of work.
Fight on, brother, but later in life, you'll lose more than you gain: America is money, not freedom.
Snips:
"The Supreme Court Monday debated the case of a high school principal who suspended a student over a "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," banner displayed at a school-sponsored event.
"The free-speech case tests the limits of student messages officials could try to suppress.
"Joseph Frederick, then 18, unveiled the 14-foot paper sign on a public sidewalk outside his Juneau, Alaska, high school. Principal Deborah Morse confiscated it and later suspended the young man.
"At issue was whether Frederick's free-speech rights were violated and the discretion schools should be allowed to limit messages that appear to advocate illegal drug use."
The day you leave the cover of school and take a job, you can cash in your free-speech rights. I can't display "controversial" stickers on my vehicle (since it's parked in a work parking space), can't say what I want to in the workplace or even outside the workplace if someone knows where I am employed, I can't take advantage of my state's decriminalization of marijuana use because my company has random drug tests that can force a one-weekend-a-month pot smoker out of work.
Fight on, brother, but later in life, you'll lose more than you gain: America is money, not freedom.
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