What's the Point?

I'm sure it doesn't bother just me, the lack of plain old thinking that is apparent in society. On a micro level, why is it that drivers insist upon honking at you to step on the gas when there are pedestrians right in front of your car?? Why?!? It's this sort of thing that makes me darn near hate LA. Not as though it's restricted to the greater Los Angeles area. In the San Francisco Bay Area, an elementary school is in the process of being renamed because the grade school kids don't like their school being named after Thomas Jefferson because "he owned slaves." That's a quote from a nine-year-old. Sadly, his teachers have the same intellectual capacity. They're going for a less "offensive" Sequoia Elementary name. Here's a quote from the article by Moron #1 (sorry, I'm not going to be all super spiritual about this one...this is stupidity at it's best):

“I don’t personally have a visceral response to the name Jefferson—to me it’s just the name of the school,” Agre said. “But I understand that other people do, and I think that’s a good enough reason.”

I'd like to meet the people who have a "visceral" reaction to his name.

Agh. More later. I have plenty of thoughts to blog on the subject, but alas, I've gotta go get famous. :)