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Some incredibly exciting news: A dog runs about 1600km following cyclists in China. After being fed the canine ran about 60 km a day. That’s both hunger and commitment . There were a couple of mountains involved. That is real work ethic. On top of that I read that monkeys are really a pest in Delhi and they had even attacked a vice mayor causing him to fall off a tall building. One of the only ways to keep them out of your yard is to hire the handler of a larger meaner monkey to allow his monkey to pee around your yard. And I learned that the tomato has more genes than the human and that it shares 92% of genes with its cousin the potato. Can you imagine this news shown to the tomato on one of those who are you related to shows. 

On my way to buy Dr. Pepper Ten I passed by the magazines and looked at the cover of Scientific American and was greeted by a story that stated that there are ten times as many nonhuman cells in our bodies than human cells. I wonder if they totally take over at times of stress or maybe boredom. I recall looking up at some of my students on a Friday afternoon and seeing an aura that must have been caused by that situation. During some faculty meetings I am sure that it was the take over of the nonhuman bacteria that cause some of my more caustic comments. Now I am thinking would it be possible to reproduce by simply splitting at a time of extreme take over by the nonhuman cells? Perhaps that will become a three part novel which will be made into four movies.

Now to all of you who are graduates or finishing the school year or finding a job or doing the many other things that are steps in his journey of life I congratulate you. Remember whatever you do if you fail you can blame it on the nonhuman cells. That’s better than blaming parents, teachers or even you pets. Have a great Wednesday and remember if it’s worth doing maybe it’s worth not doing,

Have been pondering the answer to questions about our education system, our economy, our political system, and the fact that many CEOs make more money than I do. First, take education. If teacher training was more like Navy Seal training at least our teachers would be more ready to handle discipline problems. Although I think water boarding should be banned. One final step would be to take prospective teachers and have them locked in a room for several days with teacher training specialists armed with tons of butcher paper. The training doesn’t stop until someone gives up and rings the bell. Next  we need physically fit students. There should be 05:00 AM physical training to include marathons and mud runs. And what about a teachers’ retirement compound located near the sand dunes in the beautiful Mojave?

Now about the economy, what if all teachers were given 20,000 dollars a month if they agreed to spend it all every month. It the students got 10,000 think of the stimulus. Maybe they should use this idea with Greece. I should be at the G8 meeting or maybe not. I predict that the economy will someday get better and all of you will be able to pay off student loans before the turn of the century or sooner. Remember to keep spending on proms to help the many thousands involved in dress making, tux rentals and in infested areas garlic necklaces. 

As for our political system it’s a bit flayed but so are most of the world’s systems. China is doing it’s 10 year change and all kinds of scandals and fireworks are popping up. Greece has many more problems. Russia has Putin again. That being said we need to go back to exactly what the founders war thinking in that second story in the summer of 1787. Was it “It’s really hot and the air conditioning isn’t working so let’s make a deal?” Anyway I love these election years and even as I have stated earlier the attack ads. They are no worse than many in the early years. If only Hamilton and Jefferson had had super PACs and the internet. Things are not getting worse they are just getting. 

Should I get more in retirement than the CEO of Facebook does now? Could or should I have an IPO? What if it went for 200 billion? Actually I enjoy my retirement and if I had 200 billion would have to hire an accountant and might not have time to walk my manlypoodlekip.