Who the hell put Air Supply on my ipod?

Just take a deep breath. Don't want to Rush to any conclusions.

Thanks Sparky.

I might just want to go back to school, myself. Maybe I could work in the library.

Who the hell put Air Supply on my ipod?

Lee, have you been drinking heavily lately? In the alternative, are you sure it is your ipod, and not a partner's?

If you teach a room (or a generation) of students to do one things specifically, and that is pass some dumbass standards test, and don't expect them to learn anything else, where's the surprise?

The lack of instruction and/or contrary to earth logic instruction from their parents on the subject?

Even without the stupidity of much of the current testing, teachers can only teach so much, and most value judgements are learned not in school, but in the home.

An undergraduate news editor thinks I'm good at this shit! It's a start.

so gosh darned pleased with our Spectral Cow.

And I want to help teach history in Buffista High School! So much of modern history turns on the fact that some guy wasn't getting laid enough or in the right way.

And I want to help teach history in Buffista High School! So much of modern history turns on the fact that some guy wasn't getting laid enough or in the right way.

People generally frown on those sorts of relationships, Connie. Please find some other way to affect the course of history.

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Supporters of the new approach, who see it as part of Bush's "ownership society," say workers and their families would become more careful users of healthcare if they had to pay the bills. Also, they say, the lower premiums on high-deductible plans would make coverage affordable for the uninsured and for small businesses.

Excuse me, let me go tell my husband that his heart attacks, back seizures, colon cancer, and collapsing shoulders are just him being a spendthrift.

All right, granted, the article says that this approach will probably not work, but ... Why do I get the feeling that I'll be burying a husband while they figure that out?

However, in "The Queer Eye Guys have just looked in the Emperor's closet and commented on the lack of clothes in there" land, we have this.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Abstinence-only sex education programs, a major plank in President Bush's education plan, have had no impact on teenagers' behavior in his home state of Texas, according to a new study

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Oh my god. Who can afford to buy into this fucking "ownership society"? I haven't heard the phrase before but it sent chills down my spine.

I'm still partial to another two-word phrase Bush doesn't like "Social contract." He won't know it because, of course, it's about government's responsibility to its citizens.

The lack of instruction and/or contrary to earth logic instruction from their parents on the subject?

Most parents - who were in fact taught this stuff in school - may well be assuming their kids aren't being shortchanged. I made that assumption; Jo was told to ask questions.

Even without the stupidity of much of the current testing, teachers can only teach so much, and most value judgements are learned not in school, but in the home.

Um, I don't think that knowing what the Bill of Rights covers is a value judgment, do you? They weren't questioning, for instance, whether the kids thought burning a flag was right or wrong; they were asking these kids whether the kids thought it was legal.

And the kids mostly didn't know.

I was taught that stuff back in junior high school. I was also taught about Dred Scott and related things at the same age, in an American junior high school. Not value judgments: history and social studies.