http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/update-all-drug-olympics/1198068/

We will probably find out what snapped with Mr. Holmes but that won’t bring back anyone from the dead. Mentally fragile people with guns we don’t need.

This reminds me of the kid (Frosh @ Cal in ’88) who was supposed to be my summer school roommate in La Jolla. He was supposedly very bright, intelligent, and not to mention, well loved by his family. But since I never met him I can’t say for sure. Apparently somewhere between the train station in San Diego and UCSD in La Jolla, he got lost in Tijuana! Now…..I am not sure HOW that happens as La Jolla is north and TJ is south of the station but this kid managed to pull that one off. Needless to say that his parents were called to “come pick him up.” From the brief experience I had with his mother I would venture to guess that he was exceptionally bright at school work, and maybe not so bright in common sense.

The sad thing to me is that we are seeing this a lot today; kids who can score 1600 on the SAT but can’t drive. They can explain the theory of evolution but have never gone grocery shopping. They can build linear accelerators but have no clue as to how to actually boil an egg. It shocks me that there is a whole generation of adults who have loads of ‘book smarts’ but very little ‘street smarts.’

My thinking is that Mr. Holmes was failing his classes and had never learned how to deal with failure. Sadly this was the result of that. Some times it pays to be bright enough to know how to deal with life.

We were in Albuquerque today. They had their version of summerfest and I spent an hour at an antique car show in a throng of humanity. Always looking over my shoulder, damn it.