Random Thoughts

Some random thoughts on the first day of school....

1) What is that smell in Piscataway?? Oh, the Rutgers football team and the stinker of a game they put forward yesterday afternoon. It's not RU but P-U!

2) When did we get so polarized in this country? I mean, the President wants to speak to school kids to encourage them to do well in school, and the wack jobs on the right have people convinced that he is going to give them some pro-abortion, socialistic, Obama cult message! I mean this morning, I saw a woman on TV actually say that she's concerned that he will push his political agenda on her elementary school-aged children! She must be concerned that they will try to redistribute the lunch money and snacks from the rich to the poor kids. Ridiculous.

3) An adjunct thought to the above - it's not just whack-jobs on the right but whack-jobs on the left as well, crowing about how they were going to get so much done with a Democratic Congress and Democratic President. So far, what has gotten done? Bupkis, basically. The Democrats can't even keep their own members together, so forget about getting bipartisan support on anything. And with the Republicans not offering anything but 'No', it's not surprising, I guess, that we have become so polarized.

4) The latest controversy at South Brunswick High School is about the wearing of student id's on a lanyard. Al students will be required to wear their id on a school-provided lanyard. So far, with the couple of HSers I've talked to, it's going over like a lead balloon on a lanyard. The rationale is security, 'because people in real jobs have to wear their id's' and so that students get to know each other.... Should be interesting.

Dan