Learning is always good so let the light shine in. It is far better that we teach poor kids a good way to make a living rather than have them discover a far easier and less social way of making a living. One way or the other they will earn a living. Nobody just sits and starves to death quietly.

We live in a nation that was fool enough to elect Baby Bush and in my state the notorious Rick Scott as governor. In such a warped society I do not find it unthinkable that recruits for a nut job cult that enjoys suicides and murders would be here for the asking.

The public will never want to face human nature. Any little thing that is upsetting or challenging in any way is always a victim of prejudice and law. Look at the issue of rising seas right now. Many in congress are in denial or avoidance of the issue. any reminder that we send people into really nasty and savage death or injury will be glossed over one way or another if not flat out banned by law. A great example is in not allowing photographs of coffins being shipped back from the war. Our politicians seek to make war look better for our side than it is. If we see no coffins and no bodies and are not allowed to know the true expense of a conflict we are prone to supporting the military action. The truth may set us free but our government in no way wants us to be free.

Many people have no reason at all to respect society or its laws. If you take a young person living in stark, dire and urgent poverty and realistically help them only to the point that they can move up to the level of grinding poverty then expect them to live in rebellion and act out their rage. On the other hand if you find a way for them to make upper middle class earnings and have a stable future you just might be shocked at how good a citizen they might become. A second issue is just plain rude cops and officials. I have met some nice cops but i have also met some really rude cops. Instead of simply being cold and business like maybe being friendly and even courteous would get a lot more positive response from the community. And when dealing with a mentally ill person or someone in a rage quite often they could call for numerous backup forces so that the chasing, wrestling stuff would be less common and more respectful to people being taken into custody. I understand that many times violence must be in play. But often a situation could be made less serious just by the presence of numerous officers. Jail and prison guards need new training as well. As they represent society to the inmates if they are rude or uncaring the inmates see this as reasons for revenge on society in general. Frankly I am astounded that men kept in some of our jails and prisons do not come out dedicated to deliberate mayhem upon all members of society.

Early versions of Windows are like remembering a rotten tooth aching and oozing. I'm still not using Microsoft products.

Insanity by officials in Texas seems like an ever repeating issue. Why is this principal still in his job and why has the kid not sued the principal into the next universe? Kids getting threatened like that is a huge violation of their rights.

Maybe I'm too hard on people but i don't worry one bit about a group of nuts committing suicide. Frankly some personalities are so mush like that suicide is justified for them. I also could care less that people misuse prescription drugs and over dose at rates higher than the yearly combat losses in Vietnam. If people are dumb enough to get high and perish from it so what? But for tax payers to be funding government officials who sit around and get big pay for worrying about people going nuts over popular TV shows and movies offends me. As far as conspiracies we really do suffer from some. I have no doubt that JFK's death was a government conspiracy. I don't like that. But it certainly should not cause people to have nervous breakdowns.

I do wonder if some ape or monkey type of creature might have occupied the same spot for centuries and made these primitive tools. Chimps keep surprising us with their use of tools.

My area has frequent hurricanes. I do wonder how durable windmills are in a storm and how quickly they can be repaired and made to function after a storm. To me it seems like some way to fold the blades against the mast would be required. I've never seen any articles about high winds and windmills. Near me we need the type of strength that can survive near 200 mph. gusts and battering that can last for several days.

Despite civil service protections public employees are well aware that pointing out anything unpleasant or defective to the chain of command can cost you your job. They will fire you not for what you do but create situations with which what you do will be unacceptable. After all some big shot selected the security system and he has friends in high places. Rock his canoe by reporting a security issue and you are dead meat. The only protections for workers rest in strong unions and a legal system willing to punish public institutions.

Make it available to everyone and not just schools for free!

The issue is whether the kid should adapt or whether the school should adapt. The ability to print with a pen or pencil or even a finger in the mud can be crucial. The issue goes back at least 100 years when some people noticed that educated kids had far less memory ability than kids who did not learn to read and write. We have made certain mistakes and classes to simply increase memory as well as classes designed to require fixing on a topic with deep concentration have been severely lessened in the educational system. Even radical practices that have no place at all in modern life had some value. The great Samuel Johnson was asked about new laws (about 1630) that stopped teachers from torturing or even killing students. Dr. Johnson remarked that if one student is lost the entire school is lost. What he meant was that any student who displayed behavior problems or learning problems was like a rotten apple in a barrel of apples and would ruin the quality of the school for everyone. To that extent beatings and even killing should not be banned.

First the state sets up car pool lanes and asks people to share rides in the name of patriotism, monetary benefit and conservation. Then Uber comes along and creates a way to share a ride and the driver benefits a little bit as well. Then the state turns around and say oh no! This is rather like the politics of sex. Sex is sort of ok as long as one hides it away but God help anyone who charges money for sex. Going back to cars these laws have failed to take into account social media. Many people scour social media looking for people who commute to work and make deals to get a ride. I have a friend who goes to college about 100 miles from me. She takes classes three days a week. She slips the drivers $10 per day and she gets dropped off and picked up when they get off work. That is $30. a week for her and that $30. can help the driver pay for gas and enable the car pool lane use as well. And she has three different drivers just in case one is sick or on vacation or has a broken car. I see no moral difference between that and Uber and oddly where I live there is no way to travel county to county that is not massively inconvenient or expensive.

Honda of China makes and sells a nice 125cc motorcycle there for $900. Here that bike would probably cost $3,000 but Honda won't even ship that bike to the US as it would screw up sales of other models. We have tons of riders in the US shelling out $25,000 or even more for a motorcycle. Oddly the creepy little 50cc bikes are the smartest deal of all right now. The weed eater like motors cost $100. so one need not worry much about a motor breaking. The transmission is the type with pulleys that swell and shrink and are super easy and cheap to replace. A new carb costs about $15. These engines have even been used to power a highly collectible mini car in decades past and at this time actually produce as much as 7.5 horsepower and that is more than twice what a Vespa 125 produced in 1960. Plus it is such a lite motor and transmission the bike needs less power than ever before. And we are talking greater than 100 mpg..