Blackmoor Vituperative

I’m not sure why I watch Bill Maher anymore. He used to be funny. Not anymore. If he isn’t trumpeting his ignorance of the most basic principles of politics or economics, he’s opining on subjects that he’d be wiser to keep silent about. For example, this evening he said, “Halloween is a holiday that should be for kids.” Screw kids. Halloween is about fear. Halloween is about celebrating life and the darkness that waits for us afterward. What do kids know about that?

He also had some astonishingly stupid things to say about home schooling, comparing all home-schooled children to the adorable little Neo-Nazis in Prussian Blue. News flash to Bill Maher: public schools have plenty of racists, not to mention the occassional mass-murderers. I myself went to a public elementary school in North Carolina where a gang of boys went around the school drawing swastikas on things. I also went to a school where some of the white kids were terrorized by some of the black kids — not really because of their respective skin colors, but because kids band together with others like themselves, and then those groups prey on the ones that don’t belong. The fact is that regardless of their ancestry, children are horrible, horrible creatures. The best thing for children is to have responsible adult role-models. Most home-schooled kids get great educations, are extremely social, and go on to lead rewarding lives in the real world. Poor little Lynx and Lamb Gaede are the exceptions, thank goodness.