Campus Equity Week — Equal Pay, Unionize, Stop the Flow of Public Education into the Pockets of Money Changers!
So, how do I say this? I went to Vacations International last night with my special education partner. She just got off work at 7 p.m., a day that, well, started at 7 a.m. You know, children, abused some of them, bad homes, bad things in their lives, and the developmental delays, the challenges of autism, etc. I got that goofy American huckster phone call that I had won a prize. I tracked it down — the total surveillance and sharing all personal information part — to the Clark County Fair when I took some of my clients there two months ago, to enjoy the scene and livestock and greasy food. I guess I was fooling around with one of the brain killers, some iPad set up, while next to the 4000-pound bulls, and I inadvertently signed into/up for a contest.
What a pathetic world we are. A bunch of guys and a few women in a building in Vancouver. That’s 8 p.m., and the Hawaiian music was blaring, some of the folk had on Hawaii shirts, and, well, here we were, just ready to listen, laugh at the Vacation Ownership scheme, and get our RT airfare and two nights in a hotel in one of those great American cities — Las Vegas, Reno, Phoenix, LA, SF and somewhere else.
Hotel, plane, and a meal coupon. Free (sic).
Not just teachers do this kind of shit. Really, even the Trumps of the World get free things. Remember when Romney gave his half-consumed hot cocoa to the servers as a tip — “This is really good, and here, dear, I left you some.” Romney tip. This is how they work, whether WASPs or WJFCs — white jewish financial class. It was a waste of time, in many ways, but I am a writer, an observer, and one up for story after story on America’s slide into the sty. But also an experience that is, what, a back to the future kind of thing for