rhetorical, Ryan...if you would be so kind....

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by RyanLanane

Morgan would of helped me anyways because she is just one of the coolest, sweetest, and most kind people I have met.

I've got the lad totally fooled. I'm really just after phone sex with him!

Originally Posted by Sin

Thanks Morgan, its good to see you again too! Hope you had a great New Year & Holiday season!

Hi, Sin! Had an absolutely wonderful holiday season...but - per usual - I am SO glad they're over with! I'm packing to move now, which is physically killing me, but exciting. I've never picked up more objects and muttered "what *is* this and why do we own it?" in my life.

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Sometimes I wonder what happened to public education. I am not the most literate of souls but what I see "graduating" from high school today makes me cringe.

You are very literate, and depending upon where you are currently standing, a Rhodes Scholar equivalent. They lowered the standards and kept lowering them in public education. I remember my mother looking at me and saying "What do you mean, you've never read Moby Dick?!?!?!?" (She was a graduate of Cathedral High School in Springfield, MA, which means her high school education was most likely the equivalent of a Master's Degree today.) By the time my children were in high school, I was reduced to "what do you mean they never taught you to diagram a sentence?!?!?!?!?" To this day, my youngest says "oh, I got a great education...but I got it at home."

I've tried reading Moby Dick, for my mother's sake. I can't get past page 119, no matter how hard I try. Seven pages explaining why the damned whale was frightening because it was white. I counted. Seven damned pages explaining why white was frightening. Oh, for heaven's sake....