No wonder the kids don’t learn math. Barbara Kato of the Chicago Area Writing Project, writing in Catalyst (September) about the tyranny of standardized testing in the schools: “A particularly perplexing misconception is the expectation that all students should score above the 50th percentile.”

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is the one that forbids federal prosecutors from leaking confidential grand jury proceedings. But no editor is going to assign an investigative reporter to do a story on who is leaking to the paper because the press is actively participating in, and encouraging, the subversion of this law….Unlike the president’s extramarital sex life, the way news is gathered and reported is clearly a matter of legitimate public concern. Of course, the press hides that, while, at the same time, under the guise of truth, it pushes for the transparency of the president’s extramarital sex life.”

Stretch. Julia Margaret Cameron “was a photographic pioneer in the 1860’s much like Charles Lindbergh was an aviation pioneer when he flew mail from Chicago