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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. ~Lord Byron

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Name: Sian
I paint, write, and dance. Also cook vegetarian food.

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Monday, 12 September 2005

Read at your own risk...

As you can probably guess, if you've been reading this blog for any length of time, I'm not actually going to apologise for much of anything that I or any of my many and manifold evil twins type here. If I wanted to spend my life apologising, I would have gotten married, when I had the chance. ;)

Then again, I'm also not trying to convert anyone to my particular belief system, and frankly, if Gd can't forgive you for whatever the heck it is you're doing, I'm in deep shit. I have unpleasant corners of my psyche, just like anyone else, and you're not invited to them.

I've heard, somewhere, that the only crime someone can't forgive you for is the one they would commit, themselves.

I'm not going to drop out and become a stripper. Web crawl or not, it's a turn of phrase to blow off frustration. And you'll note that it's still there, because I'm still frustrated. I find it disturbing that we're living in a society where if your only talent is popping out bastard children, you have government agencies tripping all over themselves trying to support you and your kids, who, having been raised with your own dead-end value system will then continue the process of breeding like rabbits, as soon as they turn twelve, but if you're genuinely intelligent and have some kind of motivation to do something with your life, you have to fund it.

If you knew how many girls on campus--and more and more, guys, too--were paying their way through by stripping (&c) you'd be shocked.

And even more shocking, is the fact that for every dollar the government spends on education, it collects THREE in taxes. That's one hell of a return on an investment. Taxes, people. It doesn't even include paying back student loans and interest.

I have friends who would kill me, if I ever mentioned what they did in college.

Smart friends. Not pat them on the head and tell them they're doing good friends, but real, intelligent friends.

There are other options, of course. But you can still see the allure.

And meanwhile, if you've been keeping track of your scientific news, weekly, you'll notice that the average I.Q. in this country--thanks to the governments selective breeding measures--has fallen to an all-time low. Around 80 the last I checked.

So, you'd better hope that those of us who still have brains care enough to figure out how to fund our educations.