Next time SarahK yells at me for playing video games, I’ll just tell her I’m practicing to be a good father. Girls playing video games with their father helps them learn important skills… or at least so says a little thing called Science!.

Can’t wait to one day teach Buttercup how to pwn n00bs. Now where did I put her…

I’m glad people are finally starting to look at our college system and say, “You know, this is actually kind of idiotic.” It just makes no sense anymore; college is becoming increasingly expensive and increasingly worthless. If the current trend continues, eventually only the three richest kings of Europe will be able to afford a college education, and all it will do is secure a job at Arby’s.

I mean, college has become a status symbol — a really, really expensive status symbol of no inherent value. You’re supposed to get a college degree — though people aren’t really sure why. Do most people actually learn anything there they couldn’t learn more quickly and more efficiently elsewhere? I mean, I went to a really good college — Carnegie Mellon — which I’m still paying off — to get a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I learned a lot there, but I still learned far more in my first year of actually working in a job. In my opinion as an educated engineer, it seems like there has to be a better, less costly, and more efficient system to get the same skills. It’s hard to get real world experience at a college — in fact, they’ve become oases from the real world. That’s why the dumbest left wing philosophies can only survive there.

It seems like the main point of college is to extend adolescence for four more years. And if you’ve ever met an adolescent, why in the world would you want to do that? Time to focus less on whether our children are getting educations and more on whether they actually know how to do anything useful.

So new ban in New York City: Can’t smoke in a park. Are there anyone other than those imposing these nanny state laws that like them? Like are there people who are like, “I’m moron who will eat too much transfat and salt unless the government stops me!”? I mean, this is all basically, “I think I’m smarter than everyone else, so I should be able to tell them what to do,” right?

Anyway, I think New York City should lose it’s American licensing. I don’t know if we have a policy that if you have too many laws taking away personal freedoms in a city, it can no longer use the label American, but I think we need it. It’s false advertising for a place to call itself American and then have tons of nanny state restrictions on people’s personal activities. Instead, places like New York City or San Francisco (which banned Happy Meals) should only be able to call themselves “America Contiguous” — like Canada.

I’m just saying that “American” is a brand and we have to be more careful with it. If we let just anything use that label, it will lose its value. So time to enforce some minimum standards to earn the title American. I’m not saying New York City should be kicked out of the union or anything like that, it just saying if they keep calling themselves American they should be subjected to heavy fines.