A response to Senator Patty Murray's "Learn Act"

So far I don't see what's unique or reformative. Literacy is important. That is not the debate. However, I fail to see how lock-stepping all schools under a national standard will provide fertile ground for innovation. Jobs mean nothing without new ideas. We already have a service nation. We don't need more cashiers. We need creative, critical thinkers. And yes, we need to be a productive nation. Without new ideas there'll be nothing to produce. To foster new ideas we need a diversity of input and output. Perhaps teachers should be given more room to open up the content and empower the methods with their own strengths. When teachers buy in this way you foster pasionate instruction. So, allow the nation room for educational experimentation and surely we'll adapt more quickly to the swiftly morphing social environment, not to forget the alarming ecological challenges we've created. National Standards is a ruse and a false solution propelled by interests that have only capital to gain from production of sterile texts and cloned minds. Let's produce a sustainable, inventive and humane future, shall we.

as it happens

I watch myself as it happens, quoting myself, wrapping a cerebral parentheses about the bubbling up of it. You can't catch bubbles, I say to me. You can't save mercury from oblivion once you've released it. My mind has escaped me and the air infiltrates my Tacoma like a two-by-four... no a four-by-four, and I'm realing in the reality: no more deep breaths: there's no time for it, and time negated is in me like a cancer, a bloated prostate. Impale me please, schtick a needle-me in the apple which has eden my eye!