Bringing Smart back.

I have found something, today that got me excited.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_re_us/us_more_school


Forget sexy, we need to bring smart back.
Our culture does not encourage us to excell in academics. That's for nerds, geeks, dorks and loosers. 
http://householdhacker.com/

We are encoraged to be good looking, cool, thin, have HUGE breasts and be willing to do anything for our 15 minutes of fame. 
What happened to having pride and dignity?
http://omg.yahoo.com/

My son jokes about wanting to develope a vaccine for stupidity.  I think it's a great idea. At least he didn't tell me he wants to be on American Idol or some other "reality" show.
http://www.earthsky.org/

http://www.scifun.org/


As a culture, we need to appreciate our FREE education.  Why is education the first thing on the budget, chopping block?  Do the politicians not want smart people voting? We might make some informed decisions instead of falling for the misleading sound bites.
We have become a nation of people with the attention span of a ferret on speed. We are so busy multitasking that we probably don't understand half of the information that we just absorbed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_span

What is up with Twitter? Who has the time or desire to know every little detail of their "friends" lives? 
I get a twitch in my eye when I see so many people walking around with their attention glued to a small, electronic device. 

The evil twin wants to trip them.  Do they realize that LIFE is happening all around them?

Wake up and smell the text books kids.
Your chance of becoming famous are painfully thin.
That is, unless you can come up with the vaccine for stupidity.


http://www.thinkgeek.com/




 

Simple solutions.

It's getting to be time to plant my winter garden.  Yes, it's still on the hot side, but I'm itching to play in the dirt. 
I did not have very much luck with my garden this summer, but my pond is thriving.  Time to changes tactics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biointensive

 

I'm not going to give up on urban gardening! 
http://growbiointensive.org/index.html 

Where there is a will, there is a way.  Keep thinking happy thoughts..  
http://attra.ncat.org/ 


We need to quickly, rethink how we do things. The old ways don't work. They're not sustainable!
http://www.kitchengardeners.org/ 

Simple post. I'm trying to keep hopelessness at bay. It's very hard to do that when you're a news junkie.