Neanderpundit

to his site, where he’s showing a TED video.

me, I’m a little hesitant to reccomend anyhting by TED, the lot of those folks are liberal academic morons, so I distrust a good deal of what they have to say.

But:

if you don’t do anything else today, watch this.

And send it to your friends to watch.

And, knowing what you know after you see it, think of the inefficient, miserable system that the “Educators” in Wisconsin are working so hard to maintain.

Thanks, P. Edited to link back, sorry I forgot.

Last week the Oglet and i witnessed a truck almost stuck under a viaduct.

It made me remember a time, working at my first job at the lumberyard in Cedar lake, where I would drive along the North Shore to work every day. One day, though, I saw a truck jammed hard under the viaduct at the Monon tracks.

The sign said clearance to the 12 foot line, but the crappers were stacked to 13’9″.

Actually, it was a box truck, too tall for the viaduct, and the big iron beam had peeled back the top like a can of sardines. The truck (a relatively light truck) had buckled in the middle, now devoid of it’s supporting lid, and it had sprayed toilets all over the road. No way I was going forward, nothing for it but to take the long way around the lake.
So I did, ended up being 11 minutes late. This was a big deal, back then. The Yard foreman Roger asked me what the fuck my problem was, and I said “Crappers”. He looked at me like I had another head, and turned away.

Found out later on that it was a truckload of crappers destined for the yard where I worked.

has handed the Keys of Mordor off…

…to Gollum.