But are you saying that teaching needs to compete with the private sector?

I am reminded of my elementary school teacher who quit to open a bicycle repair shop in the back of the hardware store and everyone was up in arms because he could make more money as a bike repairman than a teacher, until he realized he couldn't and the repair shop closed about a year later and he went to work at our grocery store. By that time people realized the ex-teacher was nuts or something.

I agree that teachers need to shift gears and teach for the 21st century, but when I talked to my son's teachers I learned that 2 out of the group I talked to didn't OWN COMPUTERS! So it's like, how do you get them to think for the future when they don't even surf the web, let alone think in terms of wifi and SOA? I don't believe you can train teachers to love technology.

I love this "reads the LA Times and swallows it whole" right, as if you know that you think for yourself and someone whose opinion agrees with the mainstream in general must not think for themselves.

While you don't say you're a Randroid, you don't go far enough to discredit libertarianism to be believed.

Man, that is such an obvious joke by the owners to drum up business. The owners of a movie theater business I worked at used to try to combine titles on a marquee in funny ways to drum up interest. I think one joke was "Look Who's Talking? Jaws 4" or something like that. People would come in and say, "I can't believe your mistake, haw haw" but it was no mistake.

and carruthers, the correct term is Appeasican, because it was the Republicans like Charles Lindbergh who wanted to appease the Europeans.

I told my father about this wedding this morning and he loved the idea and thought it was really funny. He served in the pacific in the Army Air Corps. There is nothing disrespectful to a veteran about honoring their service and how could there be?

Apparently some of you have forgotten that there are Civil-War themed weddings in the USA every year. And you know what? They didn't "earn" the right to wear either uniform there, because that war's been over for 140 years.

Regardless about how one feels about the concept of war in general, the reality of war for veterans is almost always a double-sided sword. For all the misery they saw and caused it was the moment in time when an 18 yr old farm boy could be sent to training camps all over America and then see Hawaii, Polynesia and Japan first hand and come back knowing that they personally and literally saved the world from Adolf Hitler, arguably the worst human being who ever lived ever. For my father and frankly, for every WW2 vet I ever talked to in detail, while there were lots of sad and horrible things about the war, the triumph of democracy in the face of fascism was a goal they felt was worth dying for.

I can't argue with that, can you?

Why would anyone dislike this? Feraris are one of the dorkiest cars around- always appealing to a 15 yr old- this at least makes one look cool.

what's that word? oh yeah, Chav

too suspicious. not believable.

Seriously, I know the Head On ads, but parodies are supposed to be funny to more people than your friends in Jr High gym class. These suck way worse than what we were doing in high school, seriously. Absolute zero quality!

Man, nothing is worse than a recent Canadian immigrant, they think it's hilarious that we know more about Cuban or Nicaraguan or Chinese politics than Canadian politics. Dudes, Castro is way way way more important than Mulroney, ok? Sorry, but it's true.

I used to do this with anoles in elementary school. as written above, you can hypnotize lizards and put them in dollhouses

Why can't someone make money selling these wings as bar/pub signs? I mean, how many bars have you been in with parts of old cars on the wall?

Hazel Bryan, not Brown.

This reminds me of a friend of mine who told me her life improved exponentially when she got laid off and went on unemployment. She got to exercise every day, she got to spend time with friends, read, and do other things. Sure, if you give up doing things with your life you have more time for leisure, we know that.

Plus I know many people who don't have a car because they live in NYC or other cities. Car-free living isn't all that novel, there's this place called Brooklyn, see, and it's almost entirely free of cars and it's a paradise of goodwill and generosity and you get to keep all this money instead of spending it on cars...

Ugh, that is some seriously ugly, racist sh*t.