Actually, I make a point of getting back at people for that. Last place I looked, huh? Well, I found them and then LOOKED FIVE OTHER PLACES THAT THEY WEREN'T ANYWHERE NEAR. Fuck you.
The phrase "live and learn" bugs the fuck out of me. Why? People *don't* learn. They keep doing the same idiotic nonsense without considering any possibility at all of being imperfect.
The constant "if you don't vote, don't complain" shit that pops up around voting time is easily the best example of the non-thinking brought out by public education. If voting brought about the kind of change I want to see, it wouldn't be legal. Plus, you voters are the ones putting total assholes in charge of everything, completely oblivious to the fact that when you give an institution a monopoly on extortion it really doesn't have to listen.
Gun control. It doesn't work, it strips good people of their safety, it empowers assholes who aren't listening to laws anyway, and it's a great first step towards losing every other freedom.
Jeff