The Wee Democracy

i had a geometry teacher when i was a sophomore in high school.

for anonymity's sake, we'll call this teacher dr. michael keyton of the st. mark's school of texas, 10600 Preston Rd. Dallas Texas, 75230. anyways, it's not like i really had a beef with this teacher. we didn't see eye to eye all the time, but for what it's worth, that man knew his shit. he was a little slow when it came to working the same kind of rubik's magic that trey and i could.

but, true to my nature and style of prose, this is all beside the point. my efficiency of exposition is in dire need of some retooling. my true point was this - dr. keyton told us there were several types of people in the world: those who know they know, those who don't know they know, those who know they don't know, and those who don't know they don't know.

i list them in the order that herr keyton said that they ranked, the point being it's better to know you don't know than to not know you're ignorant.

i bring this up because i was watching the marlins get shellacked by the yankees. i was watching that redman fella pitch, and he was stinking it up. he can barely break the upper 70's on his fastball, and the first pitch of the game, i said to myself, if he keeps lobbing balls over the plate, the yankees are gonna light him up.

sure enough, fuckin' 2 and 1/3 innings later, the yankees are up 4 runs, all earned, and redman finally gets pulled. i think outloud to myself often, so upon this, i said, man, it must suck balls to start a game in the world series, give up 4 earned runs and get pulled after 2 and 1/3 innings. my point being, redman can no longer just assume he's good, cause he got the start. he's now one of the fortunate not to be in the lower tier of self awareness.

he knows he sucks.

or he should know.

and by the way, the cowboys know that they still don't know, and i think that's where i want them. mack brown, by contrast should know very soon that he doesn't know, and hopefully it will be too late for him to save his job. visit, www.firemackbrown.com



feeling: bored, and feisty
thinking of: teaching in a public school, like boston public, and nailin' me some jeri ryan
song of the day: don't panic - coldplay