Logic

I spent all morning going through old files trying to find something to put up that was not from this series. I found lots of good things.  It was depressing.  It is not possible to go back.  I am not ready for a retrospective.  All forward, I say.  Full steam ahead.

But now the morning is gone and there is no time to write.  C.C. and I have been riffing on two things to entertain ourselves at the factory:  Hunter S. Thompson and Groucho Marx.  They are both addictive because they are stylish or rather their appeal is based upon style.  Once you've cracked the code, they are as easy to parody as Hemingway or Faulkner or any other recognizable artist.  And so yesterday I posted a response on Q's blog in the comments section.  It includes a clip (two, actually) from "Cocoanuts."  It seems to me to be the mindset of the "job creators."  You know, I was an early supporter of Occupy Wall Street.  I am on the record about that.

"What made this country great?  I'll tell you what made this country great!  Education.  And what's wrong with education today?  Failing students, that's what!  And tell me, why are students failing?  That's right.  They are failing because of poor grades.  Now. . . who is responsible for giving students bad grades?  Teachers, of course!  Without teachers, there would be no failing students.  Abraham Lincoln didn't have a teacher and look what he accomplished.  And what about the genius who invented peanut butter, George Washington Carver?  He never went to school.  I tell you, we have to get this country back. . . ."  Etc.

Credit to C.C.