maybe we Chicagoans should move to Cheboygan because everybody there gets a long hunky dory

I do indeed have an ilk, the democrats, and even when I am not in agreement with them on some issue I still think of them as my people, because they are the only people who stand between liberty and being a slave to the Koch Bros and their ilk.  My people, my ilk, do indeed get a lot of money from the labor unions who these days are really scared by the anti union republicans.  More importantly they are also boots on the ground, dedicated guys who will drive the righteous to the polls come election day.  But the money we get pales in comparison to what the republicans get.

The point of the Lyndon story was that even if some politician is mouthing the words you love to hear, that doesn't mean he isn't controlled by somebody else who has a different agenda.  I E, the Koch brothers buying their minions bullhorns.  YesLyndon was a democrat, deceiving the voter is a bipartisan practice.  And I am, as always, even and fair handed.

I'm always at a loss when you speak of the white Christian freehold of Cheboygan where everybody gets along and there is no disputation, except a little long ago from the Frenchmen pretending to be Indians, but that was a long time ago, and now they happily peddle smokes and take the suckers' money at the roulette wheel.

Well you know we all despise the vice that we don't care for, and I've always hated gambling.  You can only spend so much on booze before you pass out, but you can gamble the farm away in a heartbeat.  And I hate those, well around here it is mostly riverboats without motors, with all their neon and noise and the billboards promising that you will get rich.

Of course the state does that too with the lottery, but that money goes to the state, and as a former state worker, I can assure you that the state will spend your money wisely.

Back to Cheboygan.  If you have more than a few doctors, you probably have at least one with a suspiciously large number of coat hangers in his closet, and as you continue to shut down clinics there will be more and more doctors, and semi doctors, like that, like it was back in the good old days before Roe vs Wade.

The education establishment is indeed always trying to peddle some new educational razzle dazzle, like if we change the seating in the classroom and use some techno whiz bang learning will grow by, oh pick any number.  If there was some razzle dazzle in the last fifty years that worked, we would be doing that now, but basically the classroom is little changed from the way it was in our day.

And I can make a lot of fun of the crap they taught us back in those days, but you know, they taught us enough so that when we got out of school we could figure out that most of what they taught us was bullshit, so I think they did pretty good.

But we have been hearing about a crisis in education for easily the past twenty years, and I think that's why the educators go through all this razzle dazzle crapola like they have found the answer and no everything will be hunky dory.

The fact is that rich kids are getting educated just fine.  The poor kids are getting educated not very well.  Poor kids are harder to teach because poor people have things stacked against them from the day they are born and everything is harder for them, and every day and in every way the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, so there is just going to be more of that.