Saturday, July 19, 2003

Leave No Child Behind . . . It'll Ruin The Photo Op An AP photo of Laura bush reading to children in North Carolina appeared in my hometown paper today. With this caption: Because of her tight schedule, First Lady Laura Bush wasn't able to get to a Clayton N.C. Migrant Head Start program to read to the children. Instead, the children were bused yesterday to the Raleigh-Durham International Airport, where Mrs. Bush read to the youngsters in a mock-up of a classroom created in a matinance building The Charlotte Observer reports that the Potemkin classroom was "complete with two child-sized vinyl book bags slung over the back of two child-sized red chairs". 9:39:57 PM    comment []trackback []

"You only live twice, Mr. Bond" Is there any chance that if I told you that my blog outage over the last weeks was part of an elaborate scheme? That, like James Bond in the opening scenes of You Only Live Twice I was forced to fake my own death to throw powerful and implacable enemies off of my trail? No? Well, chalk it up to a series of improbable events, one laptop disaster, at least one and possibly two stupid choices, and one disastrously timed upstream. Let's face it, some of us are just too stupid and careless to have thier blog software living on a machine nearby. Anyway, I'm back. Half-baked opinnions, and copious ass-talking-out-of will resume shortly. 8:24:57 PM    comment []trackback []