Snot and Nukes

There have been an inordinate number of ill people at my university lately. I'm guessing some sort of spring cold bug must be travelling the campus right now. In my geology class today, there was a girl that spent the entire time hacking and coughing. It made me quite mad, because not only was it impossible for the rest of us to listen to the professor with her disgusting sniffling, but she's spreading her sickness around.

Seriously people, if you're really sick, stay home. I don't know what this girl was thinking, there is no way she got very much out of the lecture with her nose running down her face. I come to school to learn, not to be revolted by people who can't keep themselves healthy. People can be so disgusting sometimes.

In other news, a group of top scientists...excuse me....nobel prize winning scientists, has suggested that the United States forget about developing its missile defense system. I'm really glad that some people with a lot of credentials are speaking out against this, it would be a total waste of money. You can read about it here.

Missile defense is a stupid idea, and even I'm smart enough to figure out why it won't work (think "brute force"). I know some of you will be saying, "but Harley, what if North Korea tries to nuke us?". Boo-hoo, cry me a river. First of all, thanks to the U.S.'s lovely foreign policy, they probably deserve to be nuked. I wonder if anyone ever thought of being civil and trying to talk things out with the North Koreans.

It's like I've said many times before; the U.S. is always trying to solve the wrong problems in the wrong ways. Remember my quote:

"When your house is on fire, you put out the fire, you don't bake muffins for the neighbors."

What does that mean? It means that instead of pissing away billions of dollars on a missile defense system that doesn't work the U.S. should be trying to sort things out with North Korea in a diplomatic fashion. Rather than protecting yourself from a nuclear strike, just make sure that no one wants to nuke you in the first place. It's so easy, and it will make everyone happier.