The House of Representatives' Committee on Science and Technology met Thursday to discuss the globalization of synergy in relation to international education and confusing buzzwords. In short, they were talking about the hardworking foreign kid who is nice, quiet, studies a lot and who in section kindly passes you assignments with a look bereft of a single iota of resentment or animosity.

The Republican representative from California's Fightin’ 46th District, Dana Rohrabacher (right), voiced his opinions concerning why we should close down the borders to our schools and keep foreigner students out. He worries they are "trained to take information back, which we have spent billions of dollars to develop in the United States, putting this into their human computer so they can go home" and share it with their military. Apparently no one has told Dana Rohrabacher that the rest of the world has real computers to go along with their "human" ones.*

So who was there to shut Mr. Rohrabacher up? It's a bird! It's a plane! It's DAVID SKORTON, who looks nothing like neither a bird nor a plane so I suppose my first two guesses were way off base. Skorton (not right) reminded him that we live on the globe, which, in fact, means we live in the global community.  In short, learn to deal with people who are different.

*For Wikipedia searched background info on Rohrabacher: He doesn't believe people are responsible for global warming. He actually said that warming cycles may have been caused by carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by dinosaur flatulence. Seriously. Oh yes, he also opposes immigration because he wants our prisoners to replace those immigrant workers' jobs picking fruit. Great. Let's put prisoners into big open fields with minimal security; way better than adding hard workers to the American economy. His Wiki-page is a fun read.


Thanks to Scott J. for the tip. Also thanks for saving that burning orphanage, Scott. You big ‘ol hero, you.