“The teacher's unions are a menace and an impediment to reform. But politics aside, it takes only a short tour through some of the country's failing schools to see that reform is desperately needed.” – “Waiting for Superman”: Sadder than fiction | The Economist (via Instapaper) “The statistics

“The little history learned in our school days suffices to prove this generic doctrine. Everywhere we find some warlike tribe of wild men breaking through the boundaries of some less warlike people, settling down as nobility and founding its State. In Mesopotamia, wave follows wave, state follows state - Babylonians, Amoritans,

Please, NFL. Bag the pink. Nice thought, but obnoxiously over the top and screams hollow do-good exhibitionism.

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