Texas Student Suspensions

This blog is giving its humanitarian award to the Texas School System for not executing 60% of its students. This compassionate treatment of errant youth is a hopeful note as we move further into the twenty first century and deal with long standing conflicts around the world.

Times of India and a Career in Counter Terrorism

Over video coverage of the latest bomb blasts in Mumbai a translucent band of text offered a counter terrorism course with instructors who were former intelligence professionals from agencies like the FBI. I have to ask, is this not inappropriate advertising while there is still blood on the street and families dealing with the dead and wounded?

Are we to believe that Indians will take this course and walk around Mumbai with fake beards and magnifying glasses looking for clues and Pakistani operatives. At times it appears that terrorism and counter terrorism have offices in the same building. Will there be a time when both sides advertise at the same online sites?

Texas Executes Mexico

Just Breaking:

Texas will begin extending its southern borders by executing Mexicans and driving them deeper into Mexico. Texas has a master plan of seceding from the union and declaring independence. New territory will be needed to build vast stadia for football, evangelism and strip clubs.

More after secret documents have been edited.

Your Tax Dollars at Work on Cognitive Dissonance

The following only makes sense in Marin County, an affluent county north of San Francisco.

A red hot rod is parked in the parking lot of an upscale shopping center. Youths are sitting in the car leering at women. It is really not a hot rod, it is a red Mazerati sedan. They are not really youths, they are rich kids. They leer at women with uncertain smiles. Certainly they know that their days of parking lot leering are numbered. They'll have to take it somewhere else. This may be their first significant decision.

Bed Bugs are Mean and Evil

For a period of time -- bed bug eradication time -- a station wagon stopped in front of a house on our street. There is a sign on the door of the wagon -- Bed Bug Specialist. A lawyer lives in the infested house. This is not lawyer neighborhood, but he would build a ten story house to house his extended family.

The bug specialist, a woman, goes into the house with the presence of someone giving counseling. She either found the bugs by divination or was called. I suspect the bugs spontaneously birthed in the white polo shirt that has been hanging in and against the upstairs window for many years.

Discretion is in question. I would not want it known that I was writhing in bed at night under the assault of bed bugs. Should the specialist not have such a declasse sign on her station wagon? It is not as unflatterling ironic as the coarse poc marked man sitting in the mini van bearing a sign for revolutionary dermatological treatments.

One can buy almost anything out of a SUV or mini van in our town.

Would you hire an attorney who was sleep deprived and welt ridden? Would you make public your hygienic liabilities?