Final Exam

No survey this week. After giving and correcting finals i do not want to have to review any more answers to any more questions i ask. So instead, after another year of teaching, i will vent my frustration of ignorance.

What the fuck people? What's it going to take? People in the US are petitioning to set up oil rigs anywhere and everywhere that there may be oil within our borders. One idiot even recommended building an off shore rig that would reach under the middle east to steal all their oil. This ass-fuck (yes school is out so i'm getting all my swearing out) has watched "There Will Be Blood" too many times and apparently gets a hard-on during the 'milkshake' scene.

Try to put up a wind turbine and people scream about ruining the aesthetics of our skyline (yes, i'm targeting all you bloated Kennedys). But recommend putting up an oil derrick anywhere and people cheer the possible savings at their local Mobil station.

People are choosing gas over food, medicine, and bill payments. Really? Driving your fat ass around in your fat ass car is that important? You'd rather sacrifice your health than contemplate carpooling or mass transit? Where the fuck are your priorities?

All over the world striking truck drivers are shutting down cities and leaving people without food and other necessities. Have none of these drivers (or at least transportation company owners) ever taken, let alone heard of, a business class? No, i'm not talking about a section on your airplane somewhere between first class and economy and i'm not talking about a group of people trying to destroy the working class. i'm talking about an actual education class with business as the subject of study.

Even little kids selling lemonade on the corner know business 101: charge more than your costs. If it costs 5... hey, what the fuck happened to the change symbol on keyboards? It used to be there. When did they take that away? When was the last time you it any of those F1-12 buttons but they keep that whole row on the keyboard. Why can't i have a cents symbol on the keyboard?

But i digress... if it costs $0.05 to make a glass of lemonade you better charge at least a dime. If the cost of fuel goes up then you should probably charge more to transport those materials. People should have to pay the actual cost of what it takes to get what we have become used to. For far too long we have been underpaying for many of the things we deem necessities in modern times. If stores want their merchandise they need to pay the shipping price, if people want to buy what's in the store they need to pay the new prices based on those new shipping costs. Take a cab, take a plane, you'll need to pay more.

So shut the fuck up and start paying $4 for gas. $5 for gas. $10 for gas. Oil is NOT a renewable resource. The more we use the less of it there is. Again, business 101, the less there is of something people want, the more you can charge for it. Just ask the kings of price control: De Beers.

So far i have also refrained from discussing the ramifications of all this delusional amped up oil drilling campaign. If we burn all the oil we currently have access to, human beings will not survive. And you want to slurp out more from our crust? Life on this planet will carry on in various forms but the human experiment WILL come to an end if we keep carrying on in this fashion. As i've said many times before, the great thing about the truth is that you do not have to believe it... it is true either way.

We are like the cancer patient smoking a cigarette through the surgical hole in their throat. Cheered on by the cancer patient in the bed next to them, NE-VER GIVE UP in that robotic pace of the electronic vocal cords they now must hold up to their throat to speak. We defiantly celebrate the use of that which is slowly killing us. We are addicts. Those who sell the objects of our desire (whether crack, cunts, or coffee) aways know that they can get however much they ask for it.

Every month new findings come out linking childhood development of allergies and asthma to air pollution. As parts of our country burn, other parts get washed away by floods, while ever more get blown apart by storms. You can pay the price at the pump or you can pay the price at home, but either way the collector will get what's owed him.

We can smarten up and take care of our debts, or we can keep panicking every time we hear the phone ring fearing that it may be the collection agency.