Non compos mentis

What a crazy, idiotic world.

In Libya, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were convicted and condemned to death for infecting 400 children with HIV/AIDS, when evidence shows these poor children were already infected before the health workers showed up.

That's bad enough, I suppose, but what can one expect from the Libyan "judiciary"?

On the other hand, one does expect a bit more logical behavior from educators:

HAGERSTOWN - A kindergarten student was accused earlier this month of sexually harassing a classmate at Lincolnshire Elementary School, an accusation that will remain on his record until he moves to middle school.

Washington County Public Schools spokeswoman Carol Mowen said the definition of sexual harassment used by the school system is, "unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favors and/or other inappropriate verbal, written or physical conduct of a sexual nature directed toward others."

Mowen said that definition comes from the Maryland State Department of Education.

According to a school document provided by the boy's father, the 5-year-old pinched a girl's buttocks on Dec. 8 in a hallway at the school south of Hagerstown.

Charles Vallance, the boy's father, said he was unable to explain to his son what he had done.

"He knows nothing about sex," Vallance said. "There's no way to explain what he's been written up for. He knows it as playing around. He doesn't know it as anything sexual at all."

The incident was described as "sexual harassment" on the school form.

Let me get this straight: a five-year-old boy pinches another five-year-old girl's bum and that's sexual harassment.

While you fucking idiots are embroiled in clarifying the nuances of what does or doesn't constitute sexual harassment between children, said children still can't read, write, or count. To call American public education a joke is inadequate. It's worse. It's a joke that's gone on for far too long.