Teachers aren’t paid enough, we hear. If we really want to invest in education, we’ll recruit an “army of teachers” and provide incentive for quality professionals to want to become teachers. If we really want to invest in our kids, we’ll make sure there are low student-to-teacher ratios and that every classroom is outfit with an iPad for every student.

The truth is, teachers are like many – not all – union workers in the United States: overpaid and spoiled.

Let me ask you something, blogger to reader: did your public school help you adequately prepare for and land your current job?

If you’re like many people, the answer is no. Some people study Business Administration and end up working in retail. Some people study Pre-Med and end up working in fast food. Some people study Theatre and end up in California waiting tables. Or worse, they end up in Iowa waiting tables.

(Photo source: inlandnet.com)

I know that I am no friend of public schools, but I think I have a critique a lot of people won’t find difficult to agree with: public schools have messed up priorities.

Frequent subjects include advanced math, art, music, science, and other subjects many people barely use throughout their lifetimes. Since public school has us from the approximate ages of five through eighteen, they can be doing better things with our time than teaching us how to dissect frogs.

They could be teaching us skills.

Any kindergartner, even if not taught it, knows that school stinks. But adults don’t realize it.

That’s because many adults keep on insisting we have this thing they call the Department of Education – wouldn’t you know it, education is too important to be left in the hands of a private market or a school voucher system. The current public education system in America is, quite literally, communist. And, like the U.S.S.R. before it, it’s basically a giant expensive disaster.

Is there anything more incessant and annoying than the constant talk of “goin’ green!”? (Note: you can’t say it without shortening “going” and adding an exclamation point at the end.) Between five-minute segments on the Today Show and a billion internet blog posts, talking about goin’ green! has become so perfunctory that you wonder if some people just use it to describe an alternative form of anything. Coke or Diet Coke? Diet Coke. I’m goin’ green!

Recently, a notification alerted me that a friend on Facebook joined a group in support of “gay rights.”…

(Left: Jean-Luc Picard reacts to hearing about a Facebook group dedicated to “gay rights.”)

Another scandal has earned the stupid title of “something-gate,” but this time, it’s a scandal I’m actually interested in. As it turns out, some top global warming scientists were caught e-mailing each other with phrases like “trick” and talking about how to suppress contrasting opinion.

Maybe that’s why liberals were so quick to point out the “SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS” any time the science of global warming was debated – it’s easy to have a scientific consensus of global warming hypers control the consensus.

If solving poverty were as simple as giving poor people entitlements, we would have eliminated poverty a long time ago.

Things aren’t so simple.

(Left: A typical middle-class home in Dantopia.)

I can’t remember being much more frustrated as a U.S. citizen than when I saw the House of Representatives pass H.R. 3962 on a Saturday night just a few days ago. Sneaky Democrats (including Nancy “The Catholic Church Isn’t Sure About Abortion” Pelosi) were smiling from ear-to-ear, jutting out their chins, and clapping in self-congratulation after passing what the Wall Street Journal has called the worst bill of all time.

Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama’s America!

There are some things about conservatism I’m not happy about. No, I’m not saying I’m a stupid moderate – if I ever do that you all have permission to punch me in the face.

(Left: Despite the siren song of pulchritudinous conservatives like Carrie Prejean, I am not 100% conservative.)