In the world of our “rigged witch-hunt” president, sometimes you just need the secret to unlocking the minds of others… Or sometimes explosives.
Okay, I know… I keep promising that I will never resort to insult humor, and then I go and write mean-spirited stuff about Donald Trump and other Republicans. But I need to point out that as a middle school English teacher for 24 of my 31 teaching years, I had to talk to a lot of stupid. And I am not being mean when I say that. Unformed, immature minds are full of misinformation and wrong-way pig-headedness. Those are both synonyms of “stupid”, aren’t they? And I have the further disadvantage of being a freakishly high level of smart. I have a lot of experience dealing with stupid.
And it often begins with, “Well, I know you are very, very smart, but I have common sense!” That’s how the argument started this morning with my beloved wife. When we are wrestling with financial and health and family problems…
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