Proof that College Education Does Not Make You Smart

Harvard-educated multimillionaire Natalie Portman, she of franchise-ruining first trilogy of Star Wars fame, has declared, with queenly air, that the current economic recession is an "exciting time". Why, you ask? First, don't question the movie star! She knows more than you, pleb. And second, because:

I mean, everyone is cutting back. It's happening in every industry - including our own. All of a sudden, people are doing jobs that they hate and they're not making as much money as they thought they would or they've lost their jobs entirely. I've started to see people looking more toward their own passions and what really excites them.

Right. So, what does Marie Antionett-err... I mean, Natalie Portman do in this "exciting time"?

(My apologies to the late French queen.)

She buys a fucking castle worth $3 million. How's that recession working out for you, my lady?

I don't know. Maybe its the movie industry. Maybe its because she's so liberal she makes Ted Kennedy look like Ted Olson. But for some reason, that college education didn't seem to do her much good. So much for Harvard.

What Ms. Portman cannot see past her stupid-induced rose-colored goggles is that what these people are feeling is not passion. Its desperation. You will take one the most horrid jobs not because you are excited, but because you don't know where your next meal is coming from. If this fuels any sort of creativity, its the kind of creativity of which you would see, say, homeless people employ in order to snatch the other guy's stuff. It's the kind of creativity that allows people to think that bringing guns to health care demonstrations is the only means by which they will get a deaf-and-dumb president to listen to them.

Only a thick dunce won't be able to see that.

More proof that college education won't guarantee intelligence. What a waste of tuition. Damn movie stars....

Good luck with that, Natalie. Beauty pageant contestants have been trying for decades now.