Better Off

Land 'O Lakes, Florida -- The stories in the news about inappropriate relationships between teachers and students have been overwhelming. There was even a substitute teacher in New Port Richey who got in trouble after investigators say she had a relationship with an underage student.

Well, another Pasco County substitute teacher's job is on the line, but this time it's because of a magic trick.

The charge from the school district — Wizardry!

Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears.

But after performing it in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land 'O Lakes, Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of its own.

"I get a call the middle of the day from head of supervisor of substitute teachers. He says, 'Jim, we have a huge issue, you can't take any more assignments you need to come in right away,'" he said.

When Piculas went in, he learned his little magic trick cast a spell and went much farther than he'd hoped.

"I said, 'Well Pat, can you explain this to me?' 'You've been accused of wizardry,' [he said]. Wizardry?" he asked.

The basic problem is that we give religious freaks any credibility. It's as if the crazier they are, the more deference they are given.

Out of their minds in-fucking-sane.

I still think it would be better to separate the religious freaks from the rest of us. That teacher really shouldn't be teaching in any schools where they think "wizardy" is a real thing. I understand when religious freaks in the Congo think that wizards are shrinking their penises.. but that crazy kind of fucked up thinking.. here? In Florida? For fucks sake.

How about we send everyone who thinks a magic trick is some kind of wizardy to the Congo.. so they can all whine about their small dicks?