This was in the St. Bernard Hospital in Jonesboro, Ark. I didn't like the tone it took with employees or visitors. It's snotty and extremely passive aggressive. Give me the plain old aggressive of "Employees MUST wash their hands before returning to work" any day. I mean, that's a rule, not a condescending and off-putting piece of junk.
It was interesting to be in the Medical Arts building there. I guess what with all the creationism and school board activity going on out there they can't have a Medical Sciences building. Sike, that's mean. But all kidding aside, I have deep concerns about what it means to deny schoolkids access to actual, true science in an age where our national ability to compete economically depends in part on our science skills, which are already shakier than they were a mere decade ago.
I think if Americans who were obsessed with minutiae like the runaway bride, Terri Schiavo and Michael Jackson got an eyeful of what's really going on in China they would make a mess of their pants. We are a weak and decadent country, indeed. Though part of me wonders if this doesn't hearken back a little to John Adams, who kind of set up the descent of American man when he (I think it was he) said that Americans had to start as scrappy military men so the next generation could be politicians, then become businessmen, then become scientists and then poets — in that order. We are predestined to softness, in other words, even though he wouldn't have seen it this way.
At least the J.B. has a place that makes a mean pizza pie on Main Street. Get the Zorba and forget your troubles.
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