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1.17.03 @ 12:01AM

TOPICAL DEPRESSION
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Moody Blues:

This is an excellent piece that addresses many obvious truths that
people choose to ignore.
-- Mark

Bob Tyrrell really does bring on the blues. Whew, somehow life seems a bit different here in flyover country.
-- Roger Ross
Tomahawk, WI

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN HELL
Re: George Neumayr's Dumbed Down and Dumber Still:

This is just an outrage. I was in high school in the 60's. No teacher of any student I ever knew used the Beatles or the Rolling Stones as teaching tools in English class. Kids don't need to be "educated in youth culture." They are saturated with it. What they need is exposure to things other than their own little world.
-- Mary M

If the educators in California teach that crap heaven help us. The '60s are the dark ages. Just look at the Broadway scene in New York. All the musicals are revivals . I have yet to find any original creations in the arts or theater. How sad to learn that the best in literature is incomprehensible for the sows we call our youth.
-- unsigned

Florida is having a difficult time finding enough teachers to staff its public schools in this rapidly growing state -- grownups having little more interest in wasting their time in and around public school campuses than do students. So the question has arisen: Should people who have not jumped through all the teacher certification hoops -- including mostly being anesthetized and ideologized in schools of education -- be allowed to teach?

After reading George Neumayr's "Dumbed and Dumber," an unflinching survey of educational "thinking" on planet California -- I believe a more urgent question would be: Should certified teachers be arrested any time they attempt to set foot on a school campus?

If, among other forms of intellectual and cultural pillage, Shakespeare has been replaced in California schools by Sixpac Schlemiel, then it's time for California taxpayers to sing Dandy Don's little song. We all remember Don Meredith, who co-chaired "Monday Night Football" with the repellent Howard Cosell long ago and far away. When one team got so far ahead that the other team had no chance to recover, the cheerful Don would break into his song, the words to which go - "Turn out the lights, the party's over…."
-- Larry Thornberry
Tampa, FL

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED
Re: Michael Craig's Joe Millionaire's Easiest Marks:

Is it possible that the con is that he really is a millionaire, and that the drama will be furthered with the news that Joe is not a millionaire to the winner to see her reaction. Is love blind to riches or lack of them?

I predict she will fall in love with him inspite of the con, at which point it will be revealed that he is a millionaire. I'm dizzy.
-- C. Peters

The women are "in on it" too and it is a hoax on the audience.

True or not, a caller to a local radio talk show once worked on Star Search and other types of these "reality" productions and he said they are so staged it's not funny.

The winners on Star Search, he said, are picked in advance and move up based more on backstage decisions rather than those made by judges and the audience.
-- Greg Barnard
Franklin, TN

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