Several points:

1. "and if I really say it, the radio won't play it, so I'll just have to lay it
between the lines" Old Peter Paul and Mary hit, "I dig rock n roll music"

2. "AFAIK, there's evidence that education makes people more intelligent "

This is an interesting issue in itself. Intelligence is SUPPOSED to be this inherent thing detected by IQ tests. Someone made it up as a concept, then found evidence for its existence.

However, the fact that various exercises CAN change your intelligence as measured, proves to me that the original concept was false. So there really is no such thing as intelligence in general as a static thing.

3. I have realized more and more that companies have no interest in freedom. It became really clear to me the first time I took a drug test. This was for a job in which it was very important that I not run people over or otherwise endanger their safety. Right, I was applying for a job as an editor, and you can imagine what I might do to people if I had once smoked marijuana! I might mess up subject-verb agreement!

4. I have often suspected that companies search sites like this for information about job candidates. Then, when someone is being considered for a job, these companies go to the hiring agency and say, "we have information about your candidates that you can't get anywhere else!" For a small fee they provide information about the "character" of the job candidates by grabbing their old Internet messages.

I've helped hire many people, and I was never approached by such a service, but I don' t think technology had gotten that far yet. I wonder if it has now?