MJ Safety Solutions has come out with the prefect solution for making our kids safe:  Bulletproof school backpacks.

Just what we need, something to make your kids feel like they are going to school in a bullet infested shooting ground. Maybe these shooters would recognize these bags and run knowing they wouldn’t be able to kill that kid! Then again, maybe they’ll just aim straight at them knowing they can shoot, but not kill.

Come on now, has society gotten this bad? It’s starting to make me think of World War II where people had to actively practice war survival skills in order to survive. Has our country sunk this low?

On the subject of schools, I just ran across a fascinating speech by Ken Robinson about creativity and schools. It brings up the question, well rather point, that schools are designed to kill creativity.

In his speech, Do schools kill creativity?, Robinson talks about how schools are designed to work the body of a student working their way up to their heads and then slightly to one side. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” said Robinson.

This speech hits pretty close to home. I am a poster child of something that did exactly the opposite of what happened to Gillian Lynne. Instead of being told I was a dancer (or anything else for that matter), I was told to calm down and often was “joked” to on how I should be on Ritalin.

Needless to say, I ended up in a “professional” job programming, even after a small run on the creative tracks for a few years at the tail end of high school and start of college phases. Due to my upbringings and “understanding” of the world, I figured art was hurting my programming — so I dropped it. I missed a lot back then. If I had seen this video when I was 19, things would have been different indeed.

I was a stereo type of person Robinson spoke of. I grew up with the idea you cannot earn a life making money with art, so I choose to go left brained. School did teach me, code me, to be left brain thinker. It focused more on knowledge, memorization, storage and less on imagination. As Robinson suggested, the whole purpose of our current education system is to produce university professors, living in their heads slightly to one side.

Are schools killing creativity? I think they are. I know they are, from experience. What can we do about it? I think it is time we start learning from our own kids.

This is great. I don’t smoke marijuana, nor have I ever tried it, but I at least know you cannot over dose on that stuff.

If I know this, you would think a cop would, too. And lets not forget the fact that this cop openly admitted to confiscating the dope and cooking it within brownies. Priceless.

News report of the incident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnZb5wi_jsU

911 call in its entirety

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This is impressive, apparently Mr. John Watkins wrote an article, “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years” (easy readable version), asking a number of highly educated and conservative minds to predict what they believe will be in the US at the turn of the century.

What I found most impressive about this list is some of the predictions did indeed come true. While the predictors were off on the details, their general ideas were dead on. Some of them accorded only within the last 30 years. Other predictions, however, still remain pretty far fetched, even with today’s standards.

http://www.dailymot….xch4w_chaise-roulante-freestyle

Now that’s what I call determination. That’s a good example of somebody not getting his disability take the best of him. He just grabbed on by the wheels and let it go!