This should be burned into the minds of schoolchildren everywhere.
If they want to ignore science, that's their choice. It just means their kids won't be able to find a job and my kids will have less competition. It's pretty clear there are many people in the US that don't get science and wish to deny their kids a proper education in the scientific method. The ultimate payback is when they're old and their kids can't take care of them. They have no one to blame except themselves.
Great, and then me, you and your kids will have to support these morons. Or pay for good security.
Since you mention... I've never met anyone who loooooves to play with fire more than firemen. Becoming a fireman (pardon, fire fighter) is, I've been told, the ultimate geek job for firebugs. First, they get to burn things. These guys train, and how do you think they do that? They set things ablaze. Large things when they can get them. Then they get to study and learn all about fire up close and in detail and, bonus, they get a socially useful outlet for their
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The writing was on the wall in 1983, my friends.
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God help those who do not help themselves. -- Wilson Mizner
