July 27, 2014
Gary Stein
The Sun Sentinel

RE: Little Stein, public servant salaries, the fatally flawed premises of modern American Liberalism, and much more in your unlinkable column in today’s Sun Sentinel

Big Stein,

So Little Stein “is about to start graduate school in the northeast”, is he?

Doubtless, his time in the novitiate of the church of modern American Liberalism, the annealing oven of proper thought and speech – the warden in “Cool Hand Luke” used the unartful term “getting his head straight” – will be time well spent. He will be returned to you knowing, just knowing, that raising taxes is the key to prosperity while diversity is the key to a gentler, more sensitive, more caring society. Who is better equipped to deal with the burnoosed Yoo-haw slicing Koran thumping thugs in the Middle East or the still inconveniently un-Reset Czar in the Kremlin than somebody who hates Walmart, the Koch Brothers and thinks that Midnight Basketball should be run by the VA?

[If memory serves Little Stein was a music major in college. I knew a cellist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the 1970s. Absent diversity and Affirmative Action, its Cossack-like enforce, the competition was a fierce as anything I have ever seen, including the New York City ballet. I mention that because nobody, including Bear Bryant, Vince Lombardi, or the United States Marine Corps ran a training camp like he did. It’s not too late for him to consider a career change. Red Bone, Hillary’s commodities broker, is looking for a few good men.]

The pay policies of the Broward county Board of Education, particularly as it regards slugs who, usually multi-degreed slugs with specialties that would make an educated man reach for a cream pie, the better to hit them with, would need both a guide dog and a GPS to find a classroom, reflect a level of lunacy worthy of the Marx Brothers and Mel Brooks.

If I may state the obvious…

#1 - Tenure, at best, rewards mediocrity.
#2 – Why is a bad teacher paid as much as a good teacher?
#3 – Why is a bad teacher paid at all?
#4 – Here’s a revolutionary thought. Teachers, defined as instructors in the class room with students in front of them who may want to learn should be held to same level of competence and performance as the football coach. Go and chew on that.
#5 – What in the name of sanity does a “diversity” expert have to do with the sanctity of pi, with Thermopylae, Salamis, and Platea, with Bach and his love affair with the organ and the cello, with James Madison and George Mason, with Joyce, with Eliot, with Yeats, with the Great Reagan?
#6 – I will vote against the school bond issue - $800,000,000 plus interest for thirty years – because it does not comply with the Truth in Lending law. If a used car salesman used the same terms as the Board of Education will use in its ballot language he would go to jail, you would get the car for free, and if you had a particularly feral lawyer you could wind up owning his lot and his business. [Bond issue? Truth in Lending Act? SASE]
#7 – As an aspiring Board Certified modern American Liberal he will soon be using the term “settled science” to explain why he no longer believes in reasoned discourse or the much maligned scientific method. Ptolemy was King of the Hill of “settled science” for 15 centuries. See if he can find out what happened to him.
#8 – I have a ball cap emblazoned with PROUD GLOBAL WARMER. I can supply him with them at wholesale on a net 30 day settlement basis should he want to be my exclusive New England distributor.
#9 – It’s not too late for him to become a pitchman for Utopia. Nancy Pelosi could always use a good promo dude, right? Maybe he could apprentice with you.






Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET




PS – Tell him that Utopia means, like the horizon, “nowhere”. That’s why it is so easy to become an addled, mush-brained modern American Liberal. Plus, it beats working for a living.