Link!  What the hell are you doing?  Yelled the Principal.  The former Marine replied "this punk had the gall to tell me to suck his dick, I was just engaging in a little foreplay".

True story, well, I might have embellished with the foreplay comment, but the rest is true.  Point being, not every one is cut out to be a teacher. 

Meanwhile, a certain 23 year veteran English teacher who is very close to the Murmur, gets fan mail, out of the blue, from a student whose life she touched the second year on the job. Some people really are cut out to be teachers, and we're damn fortunate to have them.  

This morning I had a phone conversation with a cop investigating a burglary across the alley from where I sit every day.  Broad daylight, Friday afternoon, broke into ground floor spare bedroom.  He told me they caught a couple of kids a down the block, doing the same shit, the same afternoon, and seemed fairly confident they are related incidents.  

I asked what they found out in the interviews and he said; 

I joked with him wondering allowed whether visiting a library might have crossed their minds as an option.  I could tell we were both avoiding comments about AWOL teachers. True story.

Point is, teachers, regardless their suitability to the task, should take job seriously enough to show up, cause ya never know, even if they don't touch a life, they might prevent crime.   Here in Milwaukee the teen pregnancy rate among minorities leads the nation at 90%.  Why do I get the feeling there will be an uptick in that stat nine months from now? 

And, in a tangentially related matter, the same day Milwaukee Public School teachers called in sick to visit the capitol, and show us all "what democracy looks like", their union was in court arguing to save Viagra as part of their health plan.  

The jokes write themselves folks.  Too bad they aren't funny.

Who needs fiction.  This state has become a fucking Elmore Leonard novel.  

So, obviously, I blame Scott Walker, FOR THE CHILDREN!