Just a couple of things

• Hey Texas, don't be shocked when the kids who go through your public school system after your curriculum change don't make the cut at out of state colleges, and sorry colleges in Arkansas doesn't count, because of the shoddy education you're giving them. When you leave out huge chunks of history and social studies because you disagree with it, you're only making your kids dumber. But maybe that's what you want. Maybe you want all future Texans to be unquestioning slack jawed yokels who's goal in life is to work at Walmart and inherit their parents trailer. You've made your state's public education system one step above that of people who home school their kids to keep them from mixing with kids who are brown skinned and kids who have religions that don't have the words 'evangelical' or 'pentecostal' in their name.
  
• Special K, Dennis Kucinich, has said he will now vote for health care reform. I'm not surprised. He's a loyal Democratic party guy. He's in the same left wing of that party that I occupy but unlike me, he's actually in Congress. Lots of people are bitching about him voting for it but in my opinion, he's doing it for the right reasons, just like he opposed it and voted against it for the right reasons. The bill is far from perfect, the only thing that will ever satisfy me is universal single payer health care for all that includes dentistry and mental health provisions, but it's the best thing we're going to get right now. We can fix it later, like we've done to the Voting Rights act and other ground breaking legislation.
• Anyone who looks at religious leaders as moral paragons of Christian/Jewish/Hindu/Muslim virtue are idiots. New claims of pedophilia in the Catholic church are surfacing every day and the scandal goes ever higher and yet the top clergy still refuse to take it seriously. Protestant ministers regularly steal, rape kids, and commit all kinds of crimes and they claim that their god told them to do these things. It's a good thing I quit religion before any god told me to stick my dick in a little girl or boy and or steal from the poor so I could live in high style.
• St. Patrick's Day has come and gone and lots of you celebrated by getting shit faced and talking in bad Irish accents. Since my Irish heritage is the only one I claim I'm going to return the favor. On Columbus Day I'm going to go all Tony Soprano on some Indians while I guzzle Chianti and eat spaghetti and talk in a loud annoying Eye-talian accent. And then on whatever day we celebrate Asian cultures I'm going to eat fried rice, swill sake, be super suspicious of black folks, and drive badly. Finally, when Oktoberfest rolls around I'm going to gorge on sausages, drink gallons of strong beer, and get me some lebensraum at any cost. What? You don't like the idea of me engaging in that kind of stereotypical behavior? Ok, then, I'll tell ya what, I'll be nice to your heritage and culture if you do the same for me and mine, otherwise, fuck you. My people built America, we built the roads, the political machines, the railroads, and the farms. We did more than just get drunk, produce Dennis Leary (which I heartily apologize for by the way), and wear green. Crack open a book some time instead of a beer and read about it why don't you.