Quote Originally Posted by ladywhipple02 View Post
Sometimes it disturbs me how uneducated people are. This is simple stuff! This is stuff that kids should be learning in first or second grade... what kind of eductional system do we have that people---grown adults!---don't know that snakes are carnivores?

Nah, let's pay the football player five million for a year, and the teacher $28,000. Who cares if the masses are ultimately uneducated? We'll just ply them with sports (the Romans tried it and it worked, why not us?).

Sorry, my venting for the day...
I've always boycotted pro sports for that reason. So you can catch and run with a ball, or throw a ball in a hoop. I know a bunch of kids who can ball. Show me a bunch of pro athletes who understand 10th grade algebra. They're child's games. They should be making $40k a year. That's better than anyone else with their sophisticated level of intelligence makes, so we wouldn't be short on players.