8 to 80, dumb, crippled, and crazy

we passed the time, by treading well
through stripes and spots, and psuedo-hell
we conversed in laughter, and whispered in silence
one single slap was the only instance of violence
but I've come to terms, and covered my tracks
we don't need to think about it
anymore
end of act

yo, you rule, coming through in the clutch
but wait one more minute, yo
why is that?
so I can cop the dutch!

the forests of jeffersonville, oh how I love thee

to do

Read Reinhold Niebuhr
"If everyone read Niebuhr, the devout would learn that public piety corrupts private faith and that faith must play a prophetic role in society. The atheists would learn that some people who believe in God are really, really smart. All of them would learn that good and evil really do exist - and that it is never as easy as it seems to know which is which..."

Read Plato's "Gorgias"
"The explicit point of the dialogue is to demonstrate the superiority of philosophy (the quest for wisdom and truth) to rhetoric (the art of persuasion in the cause of victory.)"

Take a course on ancient Greece
"Moral education is impossible without the habitual vision of greatness."

Learn a foreign language
"...Many students have turned into cunning little careerists, jockeying for advancement..."

Spend a year abroad

Take a course in neuroscience

Take statistics
Anybody else know what a standard deviation is?

Forget about your career for once in your life.
"...Students today have developed a carapace, an enveloping shell that hinders them from seeing the full, rich variety of intellectual and practical opportunities offered by the world..."