What a hoot. Where do people find pictures like this?

Alexa, you rotten whore.

Ok, I'm not really concerned with traffic. I don't write for you people, just for myself. But why do I have to rank behind the Peter Pan Guy?

A day without much sleep can change your mind, open or close it. A little bit of creative rush towards the end, and then you settle down into a lazy, dreamlike, floating feeling and at some point, the boundaries between being awake and asleep blur a little, and then you're gone. Sleep, after being shy and playful for a little while, takes you in its hand and squeezes you until there's no more thinking to be done, no more sensations to be noticed, a deathlike state where even dreams don't come.

A day without much sleep, on a monday, can mean a lack of energy for the rest of the week. When it happens on a friday, however, it's usually followed by another kind of day: A Day Without Pants. A Day Without Pants is the best kind of day. There certainly is stuff to be done, but nothing important or public enough to bother putting on pants. You let it shape your plans for you, this day. You need to go shopping, but in most fine supermarkets, pajamas are not acceptable. Nor are houseshoes. At any rate, the walk there could kill you, or at least give you a cold. Best stay in. There's still enough there to eat for today, and tomorrow being sunday, maybe you could fast a day, not eat in order to atone for some wrong. It's better than putting on pants, anyway.

Then there's the night. There was no night last night, it was a road night, so to speak, a carriage-ride through sleepyland. You have a guilty feeling that it's saturday, and there ought to be something to do, somewhere to go. You scan the local city information-systems for signs of a sleepover, or pajama party, but nothing surfaces. You say to yourself, I don't want to take off my pajamas; maybe if I dyed them black, noone would notice. My houseshoes? Honestly, how often do you look at a man's shoes? But that's denial. You're kidding yourself. At some point you give in to the pajama's will, as all do in the end.

Nice tits, you socially-conscious young ideologue, you!

European students are idiots. Theoretically, that's ok. After all, being a student, nominally at least, means you learn stuff. In practice, however, students learn nothing. How could they? They already know everything. I'm not sure what the root cause of that is. Is it because they're young? Is it because they've never had real jobs? Most of the students I know are close to being 30 years old. When, exactly, were these losers planning on graduating? Do they maybe not see that a system that holds your hand until your 30, then forces you to retire at 63 maybe, just maybe, isn't a fiscally viable one? Maybe it's because they don't understand how the world works.

I'm a grouchy old man. I understand how the world works, and it's not really that complicated: You get what you deserve, but don't always deserve what you get. You work hard, you get stuff. Can be that at some point, some of your stuff gets taken away from you. Let's call that the Margin of Error. At any rate, what is certain is that whatever benefits you receive from this Margin of Error is not really yours, save by luck alone. You should enjoy such windfall, but you can't count on it being there. And nobody cares about your whiny, babbling outcry when it gets taken away.

Students in countries like the United States are also idiots, but for different reasons. In the U.S., you pay for college. It's expensive, but it's doable. According to the Heinlein Morality Principle, you appreciate it more, because you or your family paid for it. It didn't get taken away from other people at gunpoint, in the form of taxes, and given to you. The reason american students are idiots usually is because they're rich kids. Rich kids are the worst little bastards in the world. Not all of them, of course; Just a crushing majority of them.

Back to European Idiot Students: Not only are they kids, and Europeans, they're also getting free college. What nasty little communists. Over the last 50 years, the European University System has undermined its value so badly that they've resorted to filming pornos (see above) to raise money. Now, I'm not against entrepreneurship, and God knows I've got nothing against a good porno, but these little turds are filming a porno as a protest! That's the state of rhetoric in European universities. In order to protest the cutting of education budgets by the German government, they film a movie about a young, attractive co-ed balling a professor. I can only guess that a professor wrote the script.

Why can't these oh-so-enlightened little knuckleheads do something effective as a protest? A local independent international watchdog association reported last year that a group of civic-minded little bastard-fuck cocksucker terrorist pieces of shit trash idiots, presumably students, went around destroying 10 percent of the restrooms on campus, and breaking 10 percent of the computers (by stealing hardware, no less!) on the Augsburg University campus in response to the 10 percent cuts in funding. Their point? Hey, dude, see how bad it is when you got 10 percent less? At least, I assume that's what they were trying to say. All they really managed, of course, was to undermine their own moral position, and redirect even more of the University's funding away from scholastics in order to repair the damage.

But that's not important. Shit like this is just an attention-grab. Little snots like this don't really have anything to say that's work hearing. Nor do they matter in the grand scheme of things. I laugh at their hardship. I'm giggling inside at the thought of all these 35-year old students suddenly being shot out of a cannon into the business world with neither credentials nor work experience to fall back on, and a 20% unemployment rate just waiting there to catch them.

Keep filming those pornos baby. You might have a future in that, at least.

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