Need…water.

I keed. I keed.

About twice a year, the powers that be forget that I’m a government worker.

Government worker. noun. person employed by Uncle Sam who has set work hours, performs the maximum work in the most minimal of fashions, has great benefits and job security, and would like to make big bucks but isn’t a fan of that whole work hard ideal thereby settling for the comforts of working for organizations who’s sole goal is to exist and provide jobs, not exactly complete tasks

Me right now? Glad you asked. Let’s just say me and Hebrew slaves are a little like Bobby and Whitney.

We got something in common. You know, Bobby Brown’s Bobby album was actually pretty good to me.

Anyway, what this means in the grand scheme of things is that I will be actually doing very short posts when I do manage to post, or having guest posters, similar to celebrity posters, only not at all.

Anywho…today while surfing MTV, I found an article about a Colorado middle school banning camouflage clothing as it promotes certain patriotic ideals and with the current immigration debate raging, certain clothing might be deemed divisive.

In a letter sent to parents last week, administrators at the Westminster, Colorado, school explained that the move to ban any clothes with political messages or flags of any sort was for the safety of students. The school’s principal, Myla Shepherd, said that tensions over the immigration issue were recently apparent when more than 20 students came to school wearing camouflage jackets and pants, apparently to show what they call their patriotism and American pride, according to the CBS4 report.

Admittedly, I don’t know all that much about the immigration debate and I’d like to say kudos to the school, and potentialy district for trying to difuse an already explosive situation…but um…

I’m calling bullshit. I’m all for stopping kids from wearing provocative clothing, but banning camouflage just to stop some American kids, in America, from having pride? Fuck that. I know people have beef with patriotism and I have my own beefs, but hell, this IS America right? Are they stopping everybody from wearing any clothing that might be deemed divisive?

Shit, I don’t see anybody stopping hillbilly rednecks from rocking clothing with the Confederate flag which is as divisive as any other symbol. Down south, if you go to school with a bunch of white kids that’s just something you have to deal with, from the t-shirts to the license plates, etc. And we got into fights, a lot, behind that stuff.

It’s kind of funny isn’t it? In a time where doing anything unpatriotic can get you blacklisted, when people do anything that might be deemed patriotic, if it steps on the toes of somebody else’s interest group, all of a sudden we want to cap the patriotism.

I know you have to protect kids, and if they were fighting because some of the immigrant kids (or foreigners) took offense to the American kids patriotism then I suppose you do what you have to do in the schools for safety’s sake. So I’m not saying this is wrong, per se, it’s just…interesting.

In other news, Bonds on Bonds (the new ESPN series) is my new shit. I was already a fan of Barry Bonds even with all the controversy. I like the total spinjob he’s doing with his show to try to humanize himself and gain sympathy. I’m all for biased reporting. Viva la Barry!