IS WE GETTING STUPIDER?

We is.

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[man tom]

Speaking of the prospect of getting more stupid...well, you could not be more stupid than my two best buddies from the Hood. Hood is new modern stupid word of the day for neighborhood. I will remind you my buddies wore their baseball caps 'front first' in 1968. Only because it didn't occur to them to wear the cap backward look even more stupid when using a bat to hit each other or a ball to throw through widows of the local businesses, if for any reason, to see who could run the fastest. Which was me by 'like a mile.
You make me remember and laugh. Actually I'm smiling, chuckling as I type so I hope I don't appear to be more stupid than my hoodies. Neighborhood hoods for you smart people. Well, it was the fall of 1968 and I was starting 8th grade in Jr. High. So I decided to go to see my hoodies in their first hour math class. I picked u one of their test books there laying in the desk and perused through it a bit. Now, remember this is 8th grade. I of course had passed first year algebra the year before with an 'A'. I laughed right there on the spot looking at my hoodies, neighborhood friends, text books when I saw this:
Looked like this.
As I have reminded many times, "where you grew up is not like where I grew up".
Note: I could go on with the same two buddies and I registering for high school a year later. You don't know what a kick it is to jerk the fire extinguishers off the walls and blow the plaster off the walls. Or skid down the polished halls on horseshoe taps leaving deep marks in the floor that are still there to this day. Still no sign of my hoodies wearing their caps backward so yeah, they were *really intelligent* compared to high school kids today.

[cfjk]

Maybe U iz, but I are knot.

[Steve (The 24 Guy)]

Baseball caps on backwards? I wish. I see people with baseball caps were the bill is on SIDEWAYS. I think that's nature's way of saying "do not engage".

[Elon M.]

We is definitely are stupider.

How else can one explain pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into the Federal Department of Education, and student test scores continue to plummet since the agency was created?

Let's go DOGE!

[Kap N. Gown]

American students lookin' smart in Florida...

[Pullet Surprise]

Hey, if it were not far an AVERAGE IO I woiuld never gotten into one of those prestigious schools in Florida. And I don't mean the driving schools.

[kwerty]

The mechanic was probably testing you with a secret challenge phrase used to identify Eugene McCarthy supporters. You never wanted to respond with, "The crow flies at midnight."

[Florida Man]

I is always been this stupid, but the tests am getting much more harder.

[Bill Moore]

I'm not so sure that all people are getting stupider. Maybe stupid people are just LOUDER and more ANNOYING thanks to the CRAZY STUFF they read on the internet, most of which involves the DEEP STATE and MASONS.

[Loyal Longtime DB Readers, Inc.]

Dave, please: Abandon the use of Substack.

Your writing needs to be free and open, not placed behind a paywall subscription.

[Pullet Surprise]

I may be reading too much into this, but is there a reason why it is called 'Sub' stack?

[kwerty]

The "Sub" in Substack is short for "subscription." "Stack" is the technology stack that allows creators to publish their works and hopefully get paid for their endeavors at some point, if they so desire. Creators who have become accustomed to regular meals and living indoors are known to favor this feature.

In my experience, they allow you to subscribe and read for free, but you have to register as a user, since they have bills to pay and need some way of governing what goes on at their website. Yes, they will try to upsell you on subscribing, but you can ignore them. Additional features are available to paid subscribers, like how Dave gives you copious opportunities to declare your identity as an irritable Scot in the poll responses.

[Dave]

Thanks, kwerty.
To "Loyal Longtime DB Readers": My Substack isn't "behind a paywall." You can read my essays for free if you want. Some people choose to pay, which I very much appreciate. But you don't have to pay.
I'm curious about your assertion that my writing "needs to be free and open." Writing is what I do for a living. It's work. Is it your belief that I shouldn't be paid for my work? I don't know what you do for a living, but how would you feel if I told you that whatever it is, it "needs to be free and open?"
OK, I needed to get that out. Back to booger jokes.

[no comic left behind]

Wow, Dave, sounds like that long haired hippie type never made it out of Camden alive. What a hill to have picked to die on!

[Danstron]

Sometimes we wear our hats backwards so we can see low flying planes coming, duh...

[wanderer2575]

Common sense: You can't buy it.