Life is unfair -- this is shooting right across the street from my office, and yet there is no Chris Rock or Gina Torres there. (It's a second unit.)

Ok. Sometimes, I wonder about my classmates. One posted this on the subject of outsourcing:

I'm in So.Cal. and I can tell you that many jobs that used to be for small mom and pop shops or teenagers are now strictly for illegal immigrants. Where I'm located at a basic 4 bedroom house goes for over 800 thousand dollars and many middle class families cannot afford to purchase one, but many are being sold to illegal immigrants because they will put up to 30 people in a house and are not held to the laws as citizens would be.

Huh? If a person is in this country illegally, they don't have a soc sec number. If they don't have a SS#, they can't have reported income. Which means, no tax returns, no bank, nothing which would enable them to purchase an $800k house.

Right? I'm not thinking with the crack-brain?

Uh, I think you're right, Aimee.

Also, "where I'm located AT" made my brain hurt.

Here Illegally, Working Hard and Paying Taxes

Oh man. I'm feeling you Aimee. My online classmates were a revelation in criminal grammar and incredible views. One actually wrote his paper on 'ethics' about 'curing the gays'. Not just gay people in general...but the gays.

I wrote to the prof and expressed my outrage, offering to post a rebuttal but she said she would take care of it. Proving that a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend, she posted some pale thing about 'tolerance', never actually naming the issue. Oy.

eta:Ha, busted my own bad grammar. t /instant karma

Oh, that's not even the worst of it, let me tell you. If participation wasn't a requirement (meaning I actually have to engage some of these people in coversation), I would be doblerizing most of them.

Suzi - tell me it gets better.

One of the women I was talking about my paper with said that she read some book about the trials of motherhood and that she thought "it must have made the obortion[sic] clinics happy" because "it would make women who were unsure of what to do to have the obortion[sic]" I went off.

Tom, thank you so much for that article. I had no idea.

Where I'm located at a basic 4 bedroom house goes for over 800 thousand dollars

Yeah, my heart just bleeds...

Regardless, illegal immigrants STILL HAVE TO FOLLOW LAWS. Just because a person got away with breaking one law, one time (the whole getting-into-the-country but) really doesn't mean they get a free pass to ignore all the other ones once they're here. Sheesh.

Aaaaah! I know just what you mean!

One, seemingly kind, fellow wrote in response to something I said about being dyslexic. He wanted to know what kind of tools I use because his son is similarly 'afflicted' and, since I seemed smart, he was hoping I could advise. I did the best I could, researching and looking things up. Mostly because I don't really use tools. When I was growing up, dyslexic = stupid and one just got on with it. Anyway, in the end, he asked me, in all earnest I guess, if perhaps I was touched by Satan. He seemed to think his son was. "But we'll do our best for him because he sprang from our loins."

I wish I was kidding.

chokes.