{"id":1756,"date":"2002-05-03T07:41:42","date_gmt":"2002-05-03T12:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2002-05-03T07:41:42","modified_gmt":"2002-05-03T12:41:42","slug":"mea_culpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/03\/mea_culpa.html","title":{"rendered":"Mea culpa<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was in elementary school, I …<\/p>\n

… was guilty of felonious assault<\/a>, since when I was seven, I believe I, too, poked a kid with a pencil and broke skin. I certainly should have been arrested and expelled, too.<\/p>\n

… angrily drew doodles of teachers with arrows through their heads, obviously a death threat<\/a>. Such terrorist threats ought to have led to my suspension, too.<\/p>\n

… played Cops and Robbers, shooting other kids with my finger. I, too, ought to have been suspended for such a violent and disruptive game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m ready for my punishment now. Come and get me, you bastards.<\/p>\n

I only wish I’d had the balls in high school <\/a>to answer a stupid essay question with an essay that pointed out that it was<\/i> a stupid essay question. Even if that provoked an even more stupid reaction from the school administration.<\/p>\n

Except that, mercifully, I never had such stupid questions on my essay exams. And I wouldn’t have had the balls, anyway, even though I was such a violent, disruptive, threatening, terroristic, felon in elementary school.<\/p>\n

(Via OpinionJournal<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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