1 One of the biggest douches of Hollywood next to Ashton Kutcher.

2 Anyone see him behaving like an idiot on ReasonTV's video of a "save the schools" rally a few days ago?

3 Matt Damon putts from the rough.

4 Is this where the members of the 'Cracked Head Club are meeting?

5 Matt, stick to lines that other people write for you.

6 This is why I support Insty's proposal of a 100% tax on Hollywood.

7 I got to 46, so... I would almost think the reporter set him up to look stupid, but I suspect that's not the case, the reporter is probably a slobbering fan of the president too. So more likely, he was trying to feed him, not so much soundbites as thoughtbites, if that makes any sense.

8 I got nuthin'

9
mornin, terrorists

10

Release the Kraken!

 

 

11 Tammy Bruce:  Why do any Republicans bother going on MSNBC?

12 I always get the feeling that Damon secretly believes he IS Good Will Hunting.

13 I like this Matt Damon video better.  Mostly becuase of Sarah Silverman.

14 I don't give a shit

15 The third greatest actor of our time!

16 Do you think Matt Damon is curious? 

17 Love the comment over on Brietbart's about shaving your head so it's easier to stick up your ass.  That's HQ-quality snark.

18 Tammy Bruce:  Why do any Republicans bother going on MSNBC?

They are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors, they are holding all the keys, which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them.

I won't lie to you. Every single man or woman who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought the MFM has failed.

19

1  One of the biggest douches of Hollywood next to Ashton Kutcher.

but his wife is smoking

20 BEN AFFLECK!

21

Do you think Matt Damon is curious? 

No, but I think it's pretty obvious he's bi-curious.

22 Ya know I am always amazed that this rich bitch hollywood types don't put their money where their mouths/assholes are. Nobody is stopping him from paying more to the Gov., just like nobody stopped me from joining the US Navy. It put up or shut up. So mostly they should just shut the fuck up

23 Show me where a summer blockbuster movie was financed by the extra $250 that some shoe salesman got as a refund because of the Bush tax cuts.  $250 wouldn't buy the coke at the producer's parties where deals like that get made!  Damn teabaggers!  They don't anything about the economy.

24 the bourne idiot

25 4 Is this where the members of the 'Cracked Head Club are meeting?

Posted by: Joey the Biden at August 02, 2011 10:53 AM (pLTLS)

lol

26 Dance,  you fuck!  Dance I say!

27

I watched Ryan Gosling in the movie  Crazy Stupid Love .  He's another one of the Hollywood boy toys, but he gave a good performance so I looked him up.

Aged 32--and a high school drop out at age 17.  Shades of Sean Penn!

When the seriously undereducated Hollywood douchebags like Sean Penn and Matt Damon express political opinions, they're talking from nothing--and seriously beclown themselves.

 

So far as I know, Gosling has had the good sense to keep his political yap shut.

28 And now, a word from caring eco-bureaucrats.

29
You want to hear something kinda nice & cool?

Then boogity! boogity! boogity! click here.

It's the pastor's prayer at the racetrack...made into a song. And it's good.

30 Can't we make an anti-drug advert out of this?

Of course, we wouldn't be able to show the reference Matt Damon to compare to the Matt Damon on drugs!

31 This is worth dragging up here from the thread below.

Latest goody from Ulsterman's WH "insider":

The one thing that almost everyone did agree with was how “idiotic”, “moronic”, “pathetic”, “self-serving”, “arrogant”, and “scary” President ObamaÂ’s role was during the process.  Those are actual descriptions used against the president, and most of them came from Democrats. Everyone stunned over how little Barack Obama understands about anything.  Told Harry Reid came out of a meeting with Obama over the weekend “visibly shaking” he was so angry at how little the president seemed to care about the process and related details of the agreement, and how flip and dismissive he was toward Senator Reid.  “Just get something for me to sign Harry…”  The primary concern of the Obama White House was the possibility of the debt ceiling issue carrying forward into the 2012 election cycle.  The president and his people made that abundantly clear to anyone who would listen time after time after time.  

32 Another lefty dipshit hilariously unaware that he can gift as much as he wants to the Treasury.

33 MD: "republicans don't believe in all this government".
If the fool would just listen to his own words maybe a little light would flicker on.
......arright, admittedly a very, very little light.

Nah, never happen.

34 but his wife is smoking

Ashton's or Matt's? (is Maaaaaatt even married?)

35 Is it wrong to hope this douche gets rectal cancer?

36 Ok, this is one meme around here I don't get. Did Matt Damon shout his own name or something? Put me some video knowlege please.

37 Methinks Breitbart is going to be a bit disappointed today.

38 Another goody from Ulsterman's "insider" (and how I wish this could be true):

 Many of us are jumping to the other side for this election and it will definitely be my last one.  Sending you a much more detailed update later this week.  Keep on Gunrunner.  It is developing into something far more damaging to the administration than even we initially thought possible.  Oh, and the Corsi stuff that you keep pumping on me.  Guess what?  It was recently brought up by someone once very high up in the administration.  It appears there is in fact something substantial possibly developing on that as well. Significants are working double time keeping it under wraps.  That always means it is legit, and serious.  Remember that scenario well back in the Clinton days.  Not saying IÂ’m jumping into the deep end on that stuff just yet, but might actually owe you that drink after all.  And maybe an apology as well.

39

ot:  i am drinking my morning coffee from a tea party patriot mug

will this make me a terrorist?  should i turn in my sister to dhs?

40 34 but his wife is smoking

Ashton's or Matt's? (is Maaaaaatt even married?)

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 02, 2011 11:08 AM (7+Jsh)

Well, get a bucket of water and douse her...

41 So far as I know, Gosling has had the good sense to keep his political yap shut.

I wouldn't hold your breath on that one. He's starring in a political drama directed by Clooney, so.....

42 @36: the YouTube video above is the origin of the meme.  (You really need to see the whole movie if you haven't - they have a giant Michael Moore puppet filled with ham that explodes).

43 It's so easy for all of you to mock Damon, mostly because he actually does put his money where his mouth is! He supports progressive politics in America. He also is much more knowledgeable than you will ever be. Ask him about history. He was friends with Howard Zinn, and studied with him!

You are all so selfish and self-centered. Can't you understand that we are all in this together? Why can't you just pay your fair share?

And the women here? Joking about being a terrorist? Well, the Tea Party people are terrorists; look what they did to Obama, and his work for the people!

Shame on you!

44 After two weeks of unending melodrama, nameles fear, abject terror and endless Doom, all Ace's chillun need some laughs.

This is cute, well done and laugh worthy at the Jawa Report. (SFW)

45 Been watching movies on streamick.com,  saw that awful Matt Damon lefty jackoff thing called "Green Zone" last night.   Never did spot Alvin.  I still say Damon's best performance was in "Team America".

46 What a total douche. Team America had it right.

What is frightening is that people as stupid and inarticulate as that make millions reading a script.

And they get to vote.

Gee. It's almost like he can't think for himself. Shocking.

47 Ryan: Uh, well, it was going to be a surprise, but I was thinking that tomorrow we could check out another place that you've always wanted to go.
Wilfred: Sizzler?
Ryan: Well, no...
Wilfred: Titty bar?
Ryan: Interesting.
Wilfred: The movies?
Ryan: No. I mean, yes, the movies.
Wilfred: You mean, like, at a real theater?
Ryan: Yeah, and, uh, guess who's got a new movie out?
Wilfred and Ryan: Matt Damon!
Wilfred: Trent and Mofo of The Morning Zoo both called it a triumph, and they so rarely agree.
Ryan: How would you like to see Mr. Damon the way he's meant to be seen, up on the silver screen with dimples 30 feet high?

48 Wilfred: What's in the bag?
Ryan: You like apples?
Wilfred: Yeah.
Ryan: I got a bunch of Matt Damon movies. How do you like them apples?
Wilfred: Oh, sweet! Seriously.. what does he see in Ben Affleck?

49

34 Ashton's or Matt's?

demi moore of course....very bunk worthy, my wife looks like her with belatirx lestrange's hair and fashion sense (just kidding honey if you're reading this)

50

but his wife is smoking
(is Maaaaaatt even married?)

 

Yep.  She's also really nice.

He can't figure out the most rudimentary problems, though. 

Geometry and Simple Physics escape him, completely.  It would be sad if it wasn't so much fun to laugh at.

51 Anyone got the over/under on which is dumber:  Damon or Obama?

52 MD: "If you walk down Fifth Avenue there's no sense of shared sacrifice."

Hilarity on multiple levels.
This braindead sleepwalker could be the modern Stan Laurel to another comedian with a brain and some wit.

53

****warning: rant ahead****

COME ON MICROSOFT, PROCESS THE FUCKING PAGE!!!!!  PIECES OF WASHINGTON SHIT!!!!  WHAT, BILL GATES DOESN'T WANT MY MONEY FOR GOOD BLOW?!!!

54

Yeah ... MD will pay higher taxes like Bono does ...

http://www.slate.com/id/2152580/

55 Shame on you!

*Not sure if sock or just very stupid*

56 He thinks he is some mental giant, you can see that come across in that clip. Funny that those that 'think' they're so smart, really aren't.

While I do agree with him on one aspect, *most* people go into teaching because they want to but that doesn't mean they're good at it. Teaching should be like any other real performance-based profession, if you suck it's time to find something you don't suck at. No matter how long you've been teaching, if you do a poor job then you should be gone. Now, I'm all for performance-based pay for teacher to entice them but it has to be tagged to real performance, not some stat the local school-board comes up with.

57

for the geeks, i'm trying to renew my technet subscription and since i am using a new credit card i had to call to get taken off the hold list and now the damn review page has taken like 4 minutes to process

even the dell indians (dot not casino) move faster than this

58

56  if you do a poor job then you should be gone.

thank god the navy didn't believe in that (5 captain's mast, yep 5)

59 Gotta disagree with you there ATL.  The only performance metrics a local school board should use in determinining teacher proficiency is one decided on locally, whatever that may be.  The state and the feds have no need to be in local schools.  The market will correct eventually.

60
  Still wondering why anyone would waste an eyeball or eardrum on nitwits like that.

61 honey badger would if he used us

62 They love teachers because they get to pretend that they like children and they get to talk about a profession that is union and government related. And since they usually don't use public schools anyway, there's no harm. Think of it as another PSA.

63

He thinks he is some mental giant, you can see that come across in that clip.

 

Try and convince him there is no bennefit/purpose to/of rotating a Ping-Pong Table, in 90 degree intervals, inside of a Square Tent.

The Concept of Fairness collides with the Laws of Physics and Matt Damon remains confused.

64 if you do a poor job then you should be gone.

thank god the navy didn't believe in that (5 captain's mast, yep 5)

Posted by: navycopjoe (trapped in chicago)

 

Egad. Did you get a commemorative plate or something for that?

65 I find it's much easier to get through it if you mute your sound and scroll down to the bottom of the thread, so...

66 Kill me.

For the love of God.

He's ignored me for years.

It's so lonely in here.

So dark, so cold.

Please.

Just kill me.

67 65 They love teachers because they get to pretend that they like children and they get to talk about a profession that is union and government related. And since they usually don't use public schools anyway, there's no harm. Think of it as another PSA.

Posted by: Blue Hen

But we do LOVE children

68 Human Events

The Sarah Palin Revolution Will Be Commercialized      LINK

Excerpt:

“The GOP candidate pick revealed by the CafePress Cultural Barometer hasn't even declared her candidacy yet - and that's Sarah Palin,” Marc Cowlin, Director of Marketing for CafePress told HUMAN EVENTS. “Based on our users' designs, it looks like they want to see an Obama vs. Palin match-up in 2012.”

According to Cowlin, Palin-themed merchandise makes up a whopping 65 percent of Obama challenger sales and 34 percent of all 2012 election product sales, which far surpasses all other GOP candidates and potential candidates.

69

Little know fact: Matt Damon never fartsÂ… because heÂ’s concerned polluting the atmosphere.

70 What an idiot!

71 Just kill me.

Posted by: Matt Damon's Brain

Get in line grey matter

72

Comcast home page top headline:  the most important vote on the death ceiling was G. Giffords.' 

Gun to our heads, terrorists, etc.

73 thank god the navy didn't believe in that (5 captain's mast, yep 5)

I looked up "captain's mast" on urban dictionary, and have to assume that's not what you're talking about.

74

According to Cowlin, Palin-themed merchandise makes up a whopping 65 percent of Obama challenger sales and 34 percent of all 2012 election product sales, which far surpasses all other GOP candidates and potential candidates.

Sweet, Facebook and now Cafe Press are the leading barometers...

we are so fucked.

75

Little known Matt Damon fact: He is a great supporter of bailouts and is convinced of their success.

76 Since this is an open thread:  Is there anything new on Huma's pregnancy?  Is Muffer Stalin-Rodham still the surrogate?

77

67  amazingly enough, they gave me anchors

FOOLS

78 It's criminal that we are not full-on communist. Communism is great for the little people, like you. I am so rich, I don't have to participate.

79 WOW. Jonah Goldberg unhinged at NRO Corner on all the terrorist language about Republicans and the media...

80 Just kill me.

It's dead, Jim.

81 So any time a member of the wealthy demands higher taxes, why isn't the very next question, "What tax rate did you voluntarily pay last year, the rate your think is too low or the rate you are now advocating?"

If pro-life advocates were regularly aborting their off spring, because you know that's the law now, don't you think there would be some question of the ethics of their advocacy?

82 Will probably run for Senator Boxers seat in 2016

83 Wow.  Damon is an incredible idiot, ain't he?

84 You cannot make me watch that idiot. Finished the new Brad Thor novel this morning.

85

76  I looked up "captain's mast" on urban dictionary

oh sweet lord, not even going to check

86 86 Wow.  Damon is an incredible idiot, ain't he?

Posted by: Corky from Life Goes On at August 02, 2011 11:34 AM (3Okgs)

I'll say

87 The reason for the shaved head?

Make-up said they were going to dye his hair blonde in the morning, but he had an appointment on the other end of town.

So he shaved it off and sent it to make-up.

88 team american is a great movie............

89 From Marcus' link... "Well, go to Hell. All of you"

Damn, Jonah is on a rant indeed.

90

FOR SHIT'S SAKE MICROSOFT HURRY THE FUCK UP!!!!

see, this is why the seahawks suck so bad, nothing in washington state works!!

Da Bears

91 Woofa. 

And I thought I was an idiot!

92

Posted by: Peppermint Patty's Ben Wa Balls. . .

Hey, can I borrow those for a moment?

93

oh sweet lord, not even going to check

 

I'd imagine that knowledge would alter your perception of the phrase, 'Permission to come aboard, Captain?'.

94

capt hate

 

i saw a pic of huma and her husband over at the daily mail...she's got a bump...

95

Little known Matt Damon fact: He sobs like a six year old girl when Iowahawk talks mean about the best president in history.

96

96  to quote george takei

oh my

97 Since this is an open thread: Is there anything new on Huma's pregnancy? Is Muffer Stalin-Rodham still the surrogate? Posted by: Captain Hate at August 02, 2011 11:33 AM (zsvKP) ------------------------------------------------------------- Well I have heard that it is the Hildabeast's job to groom the fetus' hair with her tongue and also to arouse the fetus every so often with a rounded top "rod"..... just to check and see how it is doing.

98 82 WOW. Jonah Goldberg unhinged at NRO Corner on all the terrorist language about Republicans and the media...

Posted by: Marcus at August 02, 2011 11:33 AM (CHrmZ)

Awesome.

99 I lasted 1:30.  I guess that means I'm a double moron.

100 Lol

iowahawkblog David Burge #JoeBidenSecretServiceCodeNames "Plugged Toilet"

101

Little known Matt Damon fact:  Rep. Conyers gives him debilitating nightmares.  SometimesÂ… but mostly theyÂ’re buds.

102 77 Sweet, Facebook and now Cafe Press are the leading barometers...
we are so fucked.
__________

It's like InTrade with souvenirs.

103

The Tea Party's War On America

 

That is actually an Op-Ed in the NYT

And the title's the nicest part of the op-ed.

104

Wow.  Damon is an incredible idiot, ain't he?

Posted by: Corky from Life Goes On at August 02, 2011 11:34 AM (3Okgs)

I'll say

Posted by: Radio at August 02, 2011 11:35 AM (136wp)

 

Yeah, Matt Damon is so stupid he caused this recession. 

Except that was Jim Demint that caused this recession.

Anybody want to buy a comic book?

105 Sadly, the skid-mark actually makes a case for the Tea Party and the GOP.

"They don't want to raise taxes. They don't believe in all this government."

Damn fucking straight!
Okay, a broken clock and all that.

_{and no I didn't -  I fast forwarded to the end.}

106 I was told there would be no Matt on this blog.

107 @61...Let me clarify because I agree with you, education should be at the local levels but I do believe that some standards from the state level must be in place. Otherwise it will be impossible to have one throat to choke with regards to poor performance within that same state but the elephant in the room is federal money.

108 All I want to know is when Parker and Stone are going to do a Team America sequel where Damon and Baldwin profess their undying love for one another and cross the final frontier of gay puppet sex in cinema.

109
Deer Matt,

Here is the linky for the US Treasury. Since you make a shit load more money than I do, you should feel guilt and send them a check.

Or you can send me 25% of the amount you'd send the feds, and we'll call it even. I take small, unmarked, and non-sequential bills.

Thanks!

110 Sweet, Facebook and now Cafe Press are the leading barometers...

Harrumph!

111 iowahawkblog David Burge #JoeBidenSecretServiceCodeNames "Joe Biden"

iowahawk owes me a new monitor.

112 BTW whats with the home IP banning? Did I poach some hobos off ace's royal preserve?

113 Miley Cyrus' new tattoo was Big News on yahoo yesterday.

114 His stupidity is only exceeded by that of reporters who insist on questioning Hollywood stars about national policy issues as if their opinions were somehow relevant.

115

Little known Matt Damon fact:  He sees this as a sign of Hope and Change.

116

>>i saw a pic of huma and her husband over at the daily mail...she's got a bump...

Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 02, 2011 11:38 AM (IpiZb)

_{So does Weiner}

117
where Damon and Baldwin profess their undying love for one another and cross the final frontier of gay puppet sex in cinema

That would be edgy...maybe we can convince someone to produce Brokeback Mountain 2 starring these two in a live action movie?

118 Dammit, too slow.

119 Hey Matt?  How about this as a way to raise taxes?

1)$1.00 tax on all movie tickets.
2)Eliminate all tax deductions for movie productions.
3)Eliminate all federal and state subsidies for movie productions.
4)$1.00 tax per movie pay per view, download, and DVD sale.

120 Miley Cyrus' new tattoo was Big News on yahoo yesterday.

By the time I saw that, it was a "related" link on the OMFG Miley Had A Cigarette story.

When the superspacemen of the future look back on us, they'll find every reason we got DOOMboned in Miley news.

121 Damon is certifiably . . . obviously, his IQ is less than the sum of his digits.

122 Damon is certifiably . . . obviously, his IQ is less than the sum of his digits.

He's got an IQ of 110.  In a base 2 number system anyway.

123

RE: Matt Damon and Teachers

Teachers who love teaching are GOOD teachers.  They can work with even the most difficult learners because it's the act of helping a struggling student understand a subject that gives them job satisfaction.  For these kinds of teachers, pay and benefits are secondary to the opportunity to have a positive effect on a student's life.  I've known one or two, and was lucky enough to have a few such teachers during my tenure in K-12.

Teachers for whom teaching is just a job are rarely good teachers.  It's not impossible for them to do well in the classroom, but they'll burn out after a few years and by then be so entrenched in the system that there's no getting rid of them.  These are the teachers who won't talk to students during "their break," who are bitter about working with students after school, who are constantly talking about how there's not enough money to buy sufficient supplies, blah, blah, blah. 

Now some cases of "not good" teachers are the fault of administration, legalities, and the damn Unions.  Anyone who's ever had a shitty manager knows how much it sucks, and the same goes for teachers who have a shitty principal and/or school board to answer to.  Then you also have the parents, most of whom are fine, but some of whom are too damn overprotective and coddling of their children.  "It's impossible that little Billy got a B on his book report!  It should certainly have been an A!  Fix it right now or I'm going to complain to the Administration!"  Couple this, again, with a crappy Administration that rarely supports its teachers, and you have the makings of a horrible work and learning environment in which teachers have no incentive to practice standard, quality teaching methods, and children have no incentive to learn.

Then there're the legalities.  When a teacher can't chastise a student in class to stop passing notes and pay attention, for fear of being sued for "emotional distress" by the precious darling's dumbass parents, then the world has become a madhouse.  Likewise, when teachers have to risk truly awful verbal and physical abuse with no recourse -- because children always get the benefit of the doubt, even vicious little monsters -- then why should they bother enforcing classroom safety measures?  My co-worker's daughter works in a school in NJ where she has to wear a panic button in case she's attacked in class.  That's ridiculous.  And despite what the lefties say, money is not the answer. 

Then there're the unions.  Ah, the precious unions.  The unions that prevent a good math teacher from helping a good shop teacher's students grasp the fundamental math that goes into building an L-frame (true story) because both teachers are union and their contracts won't allow it.  Or the unions that demand more and more pay and more and more benefits for their members, thus bankrupting their school districts and depriving the students of materials, which causes the teachers to demand more money since they have to keep buying paper and pencils for their students, which leads to the whole stupid cycle repeating itself over and over and over again.

Unfortunately, most of the teachers out there today are "not good" teachers, and a fair few of those are outright bad.   Why?  Because the push in schools for at least the last twenty years has been, "When you leave school, become a teacher.  The country always needs more teachers.  Being a teacher is the most important job in the world, because even the smartest rocket scientists in history only learned the wonders of math and science because they were taught by a teacher."  When I was in high school in the early 90's, the posters advertising the benefits of teaching were everywhere.  Especially in NH, home of Christa McAuliffe and her profound words: "I touch the future. I teach."   You have at least a generation of students now who were spoonfed the benefits of a teaching profession -- it's important, it's high demand, it's vital -- coming face to face with the realities -- teaching is hard, the students are lazy, the administration is feckless, and the parents are absent.  

"Teaching" has become the college equivalent of a dumping program; all the students who just barely scraped into college because of a bad high school GPA seem to end up in Education (or "General Liberal Arts," which is about as worthless as you can get outside of Women's Studies).  If you think I'm exaggerrating, I urge you to talk to anyone who's taught or taken an "Education" class at the college level in the last ten years.  They'll tell you horror stories.  They might have BEEN the horror story. 

A good teacher, like the ones I described in my first paragraph, can overcome all these problems, because a good teacher -- like anyone who's good at their job -- can clearly demonstrate their competence, leadership, and worth, and their enthusiasm will bring even the most listless class out of its stupor.  But a really good teacher is maybe two in twenty.  A moderately good teacher -- one that could be great given a decent principal and an involved parental base who encourage their children to achieve -- will burn out after a brief career and hopefully find another profession.  A poor teacher will burn out but stay in their job, because the union will protect their job and they like the guaranteed paycheck, even if they hate the children.  And a bad teacher won't burn out because a bad teacher was never tuned in in the first place.  A bad teacher hates her students, hates grading, hates the smell of dry erase marker, or is just too bone stupid to be effective, but sticks around because, again, it's a guaranteed paycheck and she gets the summers off.  And thanks again to union rules regarding the removal of "bad" teachers, the truly bad and worthless ones are as impossible to remove as the good ones, with the exception being you want to KEEP the good ones and send the bad ones packing.

In summary: Matt Damon is just another sycophant liberal who thinks all teachers are divine angels who can do no wrong, which proves that he was one of the idiot kids who looked at all the posters in the high school Guidance Counselor's office that praised the teaching profession and thought, "Wow.  Teachers are awesome."  And then he promptly went and found himself another damn career instead.  So he can just shut his piehole and get back to acting in movies that don't interest me.

124

In a perfect world, Damon's tax accountant and financial advisers would denounce themselves and inform everyone just  how much time, effort and money 'ol Matt spends each year to reduce HIS tax paying footprint.

They might also disclose whether Matt's butt has ever sat in the overstuffed seats found on corporate jets of the sort so presently in disfavor with Matt's hero, Obama.  When was the last time Matt rode coach on United?

125 One word:  cerebral.  
More words:  A beacon of intellect.

126 Hey, Matt,

Let me tell you about selfless public school teachers.

A job opportunity caused us to move to a new state.  We sought out the best school district we could find within a reasonable commuting distance of my new job.  My son started third grade there.  An unmitigated disaster followed. 

No homework during the first two weeks of school got my wife and I exchanging worried glances over dinner.  We then learned that in advance of her impending retirement Mrs. Tenure, the third grade teacher, had just been re-assigned to third grade after about twenty years teaching second grade.  It showed.  Third grade instruction, what little of it she bothered with, was essentially a repetition of second grade. Mrs. Tenure just transported her second grade materials to third grade.

Our son reported to us that the class spent most of the typical day just doing easy worksheets killing time until recess or gym as the teacher's time was monopolized by Joey Ritalin, who seemed to lurch between catatonic and out of fuckin' control.  Joey, we later heard through the parent grapevine, was a poster child for every social pathology currently in vogue -- illegitimacy, divorce, alcohol abuse, unemployment, multiple step-parents, etc.

That took us up to Fall break, which in fact began a week before as the custom in the school was to essentially do nothing for the week before any break.  Same was true for Christmas, spring and summer breaks.

So we go to the parent teacher conference -- "we" is my wife and I, which automatically cast my son into the exceedingly tiny minority of two parent households where both parents, a mother and father, were involved in the child's education -- and we explain to Mrs. Tenure some of our concerns.  She listened stoically and replied evenly, "well, I am teaching the curriculum".

Not having any curriculum in her class, but having a seven year old child who  I expected her to teach, I was rather alarmed by this report.  We shared with the teacher examples of the work our son had done in second grade in his former school.  Yes, she agreed, it was quite good. She also agreed that the work he was doing in her third grade was not as good as the work as he had done in second grade.  Beyond allowing that observation Mrs. Tenure could have cared less.

To be fair, the principal was a little better, allowing there was a problem but confessing he was pretty powerless to do anything about it other than to agree it was okay with him if my wife kept our son home a couple of days a month to essentially home school him.

With that, our boy was off to the local Catholic school.  How'd that work out for fourth grade you might wonder?   He had a test on the last day before summer vacation.  The teacher sent the results in the mail.

We're not crazy about paying public school taxes and tuition but what are you going to do? Its the kid's education. You only get one chance to get it right. Luckily we can absorb that though it sure changed the economics of the new job.

But the real cherry on top was driving past the public school one day to see on the sign out front Mrs. Tenure congratulated for being named the "Educator of the Year" at the school.

So, Matt, with all due respect, this country's public school system is boned and you have no frickin' clue what your babbling about. So just STFU and go pretend to be someone else.

127 Waddaya want to bet that Matt Damon has already dropped $40K for ticket to JEF's b-day bash?

128 115 BTW whats with the home IP banning? Did I poach some hobos off ace's royal preserve?
__________

In my case, it's because I tried to add a note about the wife's new iRiver to the old e-book reader thread.

129

What a total brain vegetable he is, NOTHING prevents him from cutting a check to the US TREASURY. NOTHING. BUT has he ? will he? Does he have accountants take every possible tax break for him ? or does he tell them to pay what ever the bottom line is plus X percent. Typical brain dead liberal. This puts him on the NEVER EVER watch his movies again.

130 I hope you never stop!  This is one of the best blogs Ive ever read.  Youve got some mad skill here, man.  I just hope that you dont lose your style because youre definitely one of the coolest bloggers out there.  Please keep it up because the internet needs someone like you spreading the word.

131 Perhaps this is one of the most interesting blogs that I have ever seen. Interesting article, Funny comment. Keep it up!