In 1965 a psych prof at Dalhousie said “You go to school for 12 years to open your mind and university for 4 years to close it.”

Now we’re not saying that’s always true but some of the dumbest people we know have three degrees.

Like UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan. Umpteen degrees but he can’t use a tape measure. Can’t step off 50 meters and see how far it gets him from the phoney blue parking spots at UPEI.

Can’t read the City by-law on disabled parking despite his fancy law degree at Yale. Maybe he was playing poker and gliding through like George Bush.

Even George W. Bush likes people with disabilities. He just signed into law 1,100 pages of improvements to the Americans with Disabilities Act this fall. His dad enacted the first ADA. Those Bushes may be rich but they seem to respect people with disabilities.

All Wade can do is take away disabled parking. And slow down the changes needed to make UPEI accessible. How come he can build a $12 million sport facility in one year but take 7 years to build some ramps and add accessible washrooms?

What a jerk.

Wade can’t show respect for the Charter of Rights and Freedoms despite the freedom he has to live his life and the good fortune to be rich on PEI.

He reminds us of those people at CBC who are also very well educated with double and triple degrees.  And they have a great position and money like Wade.

First the CBC brass lose the Hockey Night in Canada theme, the song we remember – market 101 big mistake. They let a senior citizen sell it to the competition.

Second they don’t beg Stompin Tom to use his song. I sent them a polite letter and they didn’t even have the manners to write back. Wade wrote me back but he lied in his letter.

Lest you think me a cretin, my favourite composers are Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan and Stompin Tom. I keep the Oxford Book of English verse on my night table and a rotating series of marketing, music and history books on the back of the toilet.

Too much education makes you stupid. Pride keeps you there.

Get off your high horse President Wade. You’re making a fool of yourself and UPEI.

People with disabilities are not black slaves circa 1880. We are going to get our rights and you’re going down in history as either George Wallace or Sheriff Bull Connor.

What an ignominious way to end your career over what pride and parking.

That’s what too much education does for you, makes you stupid. Well not all the time: Stephen Hawking is really smart intellectually and emotionally.

Go Stompin Tom. We know the best hockey song even if those three-degree guys don’t.