Clocks and Pastries

[Ziggy and Angelbaby]

Just been reading about a few incidents where schoolkids were suspended (or worse) for really stupid reasons. The fourteen year old Ahmed Mohamed who was actually arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. At no point did he ever claim it was a bomb, and at no point did he ever threaten to bomb anything. It was a clock; it was meant to, you know, keep time. Unfortunately, his name might as well have been "I am a terrorist" to stupid, frightened people. This led me to the grade school student who was suspended for making a "level 2 lookalike firearm" with - and I'm not kidding - his forefinger and thumb. We have people in the U.S. who think we should have more ACTUAL GUNS on school campuses. Kid gets suspended for being a primate, essentially. There was also the seven year old who got in trouble for meticulously biting a Pop-Tart into a gun shape. We are more afraid of clocks and pastries in this country than we are of actual guns. I think people are getting stupider all the time.