Nope, never heard it that way.

oh and antigone… i believe it’s GIRLS go to Jupiter to get more stupider/BOYS go to Mars to get more candy bars. just thought that needed to be cleared up.

There are a number of government programs which have seen significant funding cuts over the last six years. I’m thinking here especially of the sciences. In fact, in the beginning of this year, word got out that Fermilab may have to fire half of its employees just to survive until it starts to get more funding. NASA’s funds have only been going down as well, which really suck because Our Great Leader decided to have them make humans going to Mars a priority. As a result, they’ve had to drop so many promising research projects its ridiculous. This is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

No Child Left Behind just plain doesn’t work. It doesn’t help that it was based off of statistics from when Bush was in Texas that were just plain lies, either. Schools would hold trouble students back in 9th grade, then skip them ahead to 11th after a few years to prevent them having to take the standardized tests and lowering the overall score, and when students dropped out, they would mark them down as moving to another district so the drop-out rate looked good. Recent studies have shown that NCLB has done nothing at all, and in fact have made the situation worse in some cases.

Better bring that count up to 22.

Are you sure this isn’t Mike Judge floating a new screenplay idea on the interwebs to see if it takes?

Peter Gibbons: Doesn’t it bother you that you have to get up in the morning and you have to put on a bunch of pieces of flair?
Joanna: Yeah, but I’m not about to go in and start taking money from the register.
Peter Gibbons: Well, maybe you should. You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.

The Chuckmeister may be disappointed to hear this, but building your whole article around a faulty conclusion about the behavior of small children may not be the best way to build a career in journalism.

He could have a booming career in psychoanalysis, though—it worked for Freud!

This reminds me of the men who see a man hurt and assume that feminists like that, because they’ve convinced themselves feminism=hating men. Wingnuts have told themselves over and over that liberals like to increase government spending on principle, and they’ve completely forgotten they made that charge up to demonize us and no one in the history of the government has been into pointless spending.

Joy to the world
The teacher’s dead!
We bar-be-qued-her head!
What happened to the body?
We flushed it down the potty/
and round and round it goes!
And round and round it goes!
And rou-nd and rou-nd and round it goes!

And who can forget the favorite for budding gender relationships?

Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider/
Girls go to Mars to get more candy bars.

Ta-ra-ra-BOOM-de-ay
We have no school today
Our teacher’s passed away
We shot her yesterday.

As for this guy, that’s one fisking unit per six votes he received in 2006!