famicommie

What? In my parents' time they didn't start algebra until high school. I started in middle school, and my younger sisters started algebra in elementary school. The scores may not have changed but the students are taking more advanced courses.

Further, in my state of Michigan the charter schools are performing worse than the public schools. This was the case before the EAA was created and continues to be the case now. School of choice programs have failed to help students while harming public educational institutions.

You are unfortunately caught in political crosshairs from both sides of the aisle. Fiscal conservatives want to slash all research that doesn't have any military applications while the hippie types on the left equate GMOs with Monsanto and 1984.

I think your best course of action at the moment is to reach out to other labs and start writing letters to newspapers talking about the benefits of genetic engineering and how it's important for the research to come from public institutions. Congressmen get several newspapers from their districts every day with references to their names highlighted, so that's probably a cheap and effective way to make politicians start paying attention to you while also using a platform that can engage your communities.

1. When designing your games, do you consult any qualified experts? Crunch, for instance, sounds pretty neat but I'd be more inclined to check it out if I knew it had input from actual economists.

2. While I like the idea of using board games as social commentary, I would imagine that most of your consumers already share your opinions. To that end, is your goal to make people challenge their own assumptions, or to provide an activity for people and their like-minded friends.

3. Do you ever get hate mail? If so, what percentage are from people who've heard about your games in the news versus people who have actually played them?

For the record, I don't think you guys are assholes and I always do my best to be as courteous as possible. Following behind far enough to see your mirrors, slowing way down when I see your turn signals, etc. I'm a union man and I know you guys are on the clock and working when you're on the road.

My question is: do you guys ever get on the radio and talk about people who are extra considerate? I was wondering about it last week when I was driving through Indiana near Haute Terra where the freeway went down to one lane, and a semi was several hundred feet behind the next car in the left lane that was about to close. Some dickhead used the shoulder to cut around the truck, but I had just gotten to the bridge so I jumped over to the left to stop dickhead from going any further. The driver who had been behind me helped me box dickhead in while leaving me enough space to cut back in when the lane finally closed. I secretly hoped that the trucker noticed and was telling everyone on the CB what a bro I was being.

^ this