A rant for Wednesday

I read the news every morning mostly with the possibly misguided idea that Google news clips will help me expand my understanding of current affairs. And this is what has caught my eye of late:

1. Patrick Swayze's greatest achievements seem to be the movies Dirty Dancing and Ghost and... wait for it... wait for it... having been married to only one woman for his entire adult life. Extremely Rare for Hollywood it seems.

2. The Wits students are rioting... again... about the fee increase... again.
And so the ANCYL will be voted out of the Wits SRC again when all the outraged students go and vote in the SRC elections. When will the students learn that the University SRC is inversely as effective as the number of political party representatives it has.
What dumbfounds me is that the complaint is about the annual fee increase. Which is how Wits affords stuff like equipment and lecturers (I am aware they have funding from people like the government too) And yet as part of their frenzy of showing everyone that they are really not in a good mood about the fees.... they break stuff! It is almost as genius as burning the train because it is late... Now when is the train going to arrive?
Last pearl of wisdom I wish I could bestow on the student rioters is that everyone would join in the song and dance for a good excuse to bunk lectures for a worthy cause because we honestly feel for you and your lack of funding. EXCEPT you are too busy intimidating us and throwing rocks at our cars!! Yeah we really feel for you now... Stupid Rioters.

3. I have a suspicion that some of the recent breach of manners that everyone seems to suffer lately is due to never having learnt to accept loosing honorably. As a Brownie Guider one of the life lessons we teach is that sometimes we let one team win and another team loose in games. None of this "Oh we didn't keep score so everyone is a winner Yaay!" If as a child, one learns that sometimes people beat you because they were simply better than you that time, I am pretty sure we'll have a lot less Storming on to stages, Storming off of Tennis courts and Storming of to the gender testing labs and then to the tabloids. I am sorry, sometimes you don't win. Time to be an adult about it.

that's all for today me thinks. Happy Hump Day - in honour of our Andy :)