Here and There, July 10

What happened to the Shark? I've been working on an important project for an important client for most of Wednesday and Thursday. Not to worry, some new snarky goodness is just around the corner.

Ruben Navarette says it's time for school choice

basically what you have is a teaching profession dominated by whites standing in the way of a reform movement that provides schooling options to other people's children. The effect is to deny opportunities to African-Americans and Latinos.

Sound familiar? School choice is much more than just another political issue. It is the new civil-rights movement.

Indeed.

Here in Seattle, meanwhile, the School District is enjoying a $35 million budget deficit. Brita Butler-Wall has the solution. She is running for school board on a platform to rid the schools of Coca-Cola and chocolate milk. If we had real school choice, the Brita Butler-Walls of the world could send their kids to schools that served only organic soy milk. The rest of us could send our kids to schools that taught math, reading and history.

What do innovative minds do? Combustible Boy tipped me off to these self-appointed Innovative Minds who boycott Jews, attend rallies to whip up hatred toward Jews and teach their children that killing Jews is fun! I hate to rain on anybody's parade, but none of that is very innovative.

Swiss justice is apparently a lot like Swiss cheese.

When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire? When it is a Hudna [large Powerpoint doc]

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at July 10, 2003 06:15 PM