The late great Frank McCourt, Nobel Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes, 'Tis and Teacher Man, was a teacher for 30 years. Brilliant man, incredible writer and a great teacher.

Amazing how the talking heads on the Today Show treat her like a toddler, applauding her little speech like she just made in the potty for the first time. Ya ask me, at least she's a 17 year-old beauty contestant; she has an excuse. They're "journalists." How do they look themselves in the mirror after what they do day in day out? Oy!