Back last fall, I wrote brief, humorous (to me, anyway) recaps of some Northwestern University football games using all the sports-radio-caller hyperbole I could muster. In a fit of adolescent pique and maximum sore-loser-ness at the University of Wisconsin when they beat Your Heroes in Purple, I suggested that the Badgers were but modestly gifted bewtixt their ears with anything other than bone.
It seems, though, that stupidity is not limited to the actual University of Wisconsin, as college students from several Wisconsin schools joined together to protest recent actions by their state government by dressing up like zombies. After a person with the group read their statement, the made-up students rose from their sprawling "death" poses to lurch around the state capitol building repeating their slogans and mixing them in with traditional zombie-speak like "braaaaains!"
The students were not allowed inside the office of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, but they later found him and stood in front of the group he was addressing, turning their backs on him to show their disapproval. They did not continue their chanting, the student quoted in the story said, out of "respect" for the people the governor was addressing. That group being an assembly of Special Olympics participants readying to begin their torch run.
As we all know, the Special Olympics is a sports event that works with and features persons with cognitive or learning disabilities. Not many of them will have the chance to attend college. But I bet every last one of them knows the meaning of the word "respect" better than any of the highly educated empty skulls who demonstrated most conclusively that not only is one's presence in a college classroom not an automatic sign a person is wise, sometimes it's not even a sign that the person is very smart.
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