1) So, while waiting to cross the street, a truck drove by and the man in the passenger seat yelled out “hey!” So I turned to figure out what he wanted, and the fucker started blowing me kisses. To make matters worse, the truck had a Hillary for President sticker on it. Hypocrite.

2) Today is Earth Day and while I’m all for environmentalism, I’m tired of the “green” bullshit. TV commercials by Clorox and Chevron talk about their “green” products or how they are moving towards a more “green” business. Yeah fucking right. If the gas companies hadn’t hired such ruthless lobbyist to keep America dependent on oil, we most likely would not be in the predicament we’re in ( I just paid $3.83/gal for gas the other day and yes, I felt super guilty). Our scientists and engineers would have long ago thought up cleaner, cheaper and less invasive energy sources. “Green” has now become a marketing ploy to BUY MORE STUFF WE DON’T NEED.

3) On Thursday I have to teach a lesson in front of a class, a principal and the school director. It’s, my second interview for a full time teaching position at a charter school and I am terrified. At the moment, I still have yet to hear what I need to teach and how long it should be. I have major planning, studying and practicing to do and so far have less then 2 days to do it. I’m trying to not get so stressed about it, but I really want this position. What ultimately sold me was that there is tons of open space and the director told me that if wanted, I could turn some of it into a garden. Holy Shit, a dream come true. Wish me luck.

4) Here are two op-ed articles I found that I just could not resist posting. In fact, I think they go hand in hand.

Clueless in America

We don’t hear a great deal about education in the presidential campaign. It’s much too serious a topic to compete with such fun stuff as Hillary tossing back a shot of whiskey, or Barack rolling a gutter ball.

The nation’s future may depend on how well we educate the current and future generations, but (like the renovation of the nation’s infrastructure, or a serious search for better sources of energy) that can wait. At the moment, no one seems to have the will to engage any of the most serious challenges facing the U.S.

An American kid drops out of high school every 26 seconds. That’s more than a million every year, a sign of big trouble for these largely clueless youngsters in an era in which a college education is crucial to maintaining a middle-class quality of life — and for the country as a whole in a world that is becoming more hotly competitive every day.

Still with stupid?

With political discourse reduced to screaming contests and actual news eclipsed by exclusive and shocking footage of celebrities without makeup, we've become not only impatient with but downright opposed to the kinds of ideas that can't be reduced to a line on a screen crawl or a two-sentence blog entry.

What's more, a lot of people who harbor an intolerance for complexity see it not as a character flaw but a cognitive virtue. That's because they've fallen into the trap of believing that complicated ideas ("complicated" now constituting anything that requires reading, watching or listening to in its entirety) are the purview of the "elite."