I’ve found the fastest way to get people to scream and call me intentionally evil (not that I enjoy it) is to say the welfare check does not replace fatherhood. Single kids enroll their offspring in government programs only to have the offspring make lifestyle choices that lead to low life expectancy, imprisonment, and more single-parent offspring. The observation is called “racist.”

Public schools, stuck trying to raise kids when mom is always out of the house and dad is an unknown, have resorted to teaching diversity and anger management. We hear stories of how students that want to learn must proceed with caution lest they offend kids who don’t want to apply themselves to their studies.

And so it is that I want to announce with trumpet fanfare a great success story. Josh Hall, a junior at Hendersonville High School was selected to be a NASA Scientist-for-a-Day. Judges at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory liked Hall’s proposal for the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission. As a result, Hall and other winners got to teleconference with NASA scientists.

When I started reading the article, I wondered what kind of parents Josh had. Then I realized I knew Josh’ dad. In fact, I had just extended an invitation to him to participate in something pertaining to my day job. He declined, saying he was spending most of his free time helping his son set up stuff in the yard to track Jupiter and Saturn.

Hooray for involved dads everywhere.