Let's Have A Smart Board - Andy Rooney

Some days, I have the nervous feeling that too few people who aren’t smart enough are making too many important decisions in Washington. They always sound confident, but I'll bet they’d like some help, too.

There are 1,500 colleges in the United States and one million college professors. Both the colleges and the professors run from terrible to great, but overall, they’re among the best things we have in this country.

I do have one reservation, and they won’t like to hear me say this, but a lot of college professors don’t work hard enough. The school year is too short. It has too many interruptions.

Our best professors aren’t doing their share with the brains they have and I have an idea. We should involve the brightest people among us, college professors, in the most important work we have -- government.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/11/60minutes/rooney/main616858.shtml

...While making the larger point that this is a bullshit war, and stupid.

Rooney apparently got under the fingernails of George S. Patton himself, so I suspect the guy knows a war when he sees it. This isn't one of them, and we shouldn't be according our President that sort of privelege. I bet Andy would agree with me--partially, because I also suspect that Andy likes to disagree with everyone.