“Student: My handwriting is naturally messy. I can’t help it. It isn’t fair that you graded me down on this week’s essay simply because my handwriting was messy. I can’t help it. Besides, don’t my ideas matter more than my handwriting?
Gibbs: What do you mean your handwriting is “naturally messy”?
Student: No matter how hard I try, my handwriting is messy.
Gibbs: How much practice do you get handwriting?
Student: I don’t practice handwriting. Nobody in high school practices handwriting. That’s for little kids.
Gibbs: You don’t practice your handwriting, but you’re positive your handwriting couldn’t possibly get any better?”
-from “Grade My Ideas, Not My Sloppy Handwriting,” my latest for CiRCE
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 