While I understand your sentiment about suicide being a selfless act, I'm afraid I have to fundamentally disagree with that thought. I believe that suicide is one of the most selfish things a person can do. I have known a number of people who have completed suicides, and the fallout from that decision on the people around them is always negative. I just can't find any good justification for using that solution to any problem, no matter how overwhelming or hopeless it may seem.
While there is an unfortunate overabundance of entitlement-minded leftist educators out there, there are those of us trying like hell to reverse the indoctrination that takes place in America's schools. It's an uphill battle, made even more difficult by the absolute lack of openings in educational careers these days (especially for openly and unashamedly conservative candidates such as myself) and the unions doing their best to put the final nail in the coffin of American education. While the battles are difficult, we conservative teachers gladly go forward into that breach to try and inspire some sense of personal responsibility in future generations.
I found that the first half of the first season of Dollhouse was a little rough to get through, but it picked up and did some very interesting things with story arcs in the latter half of season one and through season two. Whedon has become somewhat infamous for willingness to kill off main characters (beginning with his work on Buffy, through Angel, and into Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog), and the knowledge of that willingness to snuff main characters keeps it interesting. {spoiler alert} Dollhouse was no exception, and the fact that the main character who dies at the end does so after betraying the people who trusted the individual could be construed as the consequences for the decisions that the character made. (tried to keep it vague enough that someone who wanted to see the series all the way through wouldn't be let down by the mind screw). You can stream both through netflix these days, and it's worth it to struggle through the rough early episodes to make it to the later 3/4 of the series. There are some very interesting questions raised about free will, ethics, and the consequences of individual decisions.
So do you blame the US Government and Democratic Presidents for doing the same, while also weakening our defenses *and* projecting an aura of craven, simpering weakness? Nah. I suppose that little bit of intellectual honesty is far too much to ask.
Explain, please, where this 95% comes from, when a solid 30% of the population doesn't even pay taxes? And every time you end a post insulting the intelligence of the people on this site, it utterly degrades the quality of your argument. Not that your arguments are ever well thought out anyways. . .
Hopefully Dhasslehoff and Anon will see this and be satisfied. . .I kinda doubt it, though.
How about a broken tool?. . .nah, that would imply that he was at one time useful. Perhaps a dull tool? Something that is just as likely to injure the user as it is to get something useful done. That seems appropriate.
The president reminds me more and more every day of Ozymandius, from the Shelly poem of the same name
(http://holyjoe.org/poetry/shelley.htm) A crumbling and impotent image surrounded by a vast wasteland that was a once great nation. . .
I'm already a fan of Mr. Klavan due to his commentaries both here and on PJTV. I'm willing to bet I'll enjoy his writing as well. Gonna go pick up these two books after work!
While I agree that modern American politics is no place for a pantywaist, I question what exactly this has to do with the post. . .By my reading it seems to be an attack on teachers unions for using their funds on an issue that has very little to do with their original purpose. . .your trolling would be much more effective if you could focus on commenting on the actual issue brought up by the author.
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