Cowtown Chronicles

I should really call it Deliberate Assholishness, but my mom asked me to clean up my language on the blog, so I’ll just stick to rudeness for now.

This weekend we were driving back from Costco in our truck, which happens to have an Obama sticker in the back window.

While we were stopped at a light, an SUV pulls up next to us and honks their horn. I look over and see someone holding up this t-shirt.

I don’t even know what to say about this. What kind of person does something like that?

The answer to that question is that in the vast majority of cases, yes, it most certainly is.

It’s time, though, to move past our national snobbishness toward tradesmen/women. Not everyone who forgoes college winds up flipping burgers. Not too long ago, nearly all of those people went into some kind of trade. Now those jobs are less available due to immigration and less desirable because every level of our education system is focused on pushing kids into a 4-year university.

Jenna was telling me the other day that it’s almost impossible to find a non-immigrant (legal or otherwise) drywall installer in Texas. It’s a skill bordering on an art form, and since kids coming out of high school aren’t choosing that path for employment, there are fewer people here to do it.

Let’s get over our national obsession with pushing everyone into college. We need tradesmen/women just as much as we do computer programmers and marketing folks.