Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

Texas BOE Removes Jefferson From History Standard : Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Conservatives hate Thomas Jefferson. In Texas, they are removing his name from a list of the great minds that formed the basis of our nation.

In short, Republicans hate the Declaration of Independence.

More on their crazy rewriting of history.

Seriously, let these folks be as dumb as they want to be. We hate to stop them from poisoning our children’s minds, however.

What a daft way to stop your spaniel eating the milkman | Jeremy Clarkson – Times Online

What good did all the airport legislation achieve? None. It simply means that you and I now must get to the airport six years before the plane is due to leave and arrive at the other end with yellow teeth, smelly armpits and no nail file. Did it prevent a chap from getting on board with exploding underpants? No, it did not.

Happily, however, I have a solution to the problem, a way that normal human behaviour can be preserved. It’s simple. We must start to accept that 5% of the population at any given time is bonkers. There are no steps to be taken to stamp this out and no lessons to be learnt when a man with a beard boards a plane with an exploding dog.

I don’t always agree with Clarkson, nor should I, but he’s got the right ideas concerning why and how we inconvenience everyone for the stupidity of a few.