There have been recent hate attacks on the National Education Association by the usual rabid right dogs. The object of the ire was educational material they prepared for teachers on how to talk about the 9/11 attack. In the 20 or more links they seized on one that said teachers should avoid suggesting that all Arab-Americans are to blame for the attacks. Hunh? This is not a good thing?

Somehow in the last couple of weeks I have listened to Rush and O'Reilly a couple of times for a few minutes and find I have to turn it off for being too ludicrous. Rush starting attacking some Indiana worker who complained he was forty years old and couldn't find a job paying $10 an hour. (Indiana has lost most of it's good paying blue collar jobs. Related article on Indiana education and job issues here.) O'Reilly incensed that a college was requiring incoming freshman to read a book on Arabs and Islam. Of course, I imagine that Rush and O'Reilly would naturally oppose education and reading, they would lose their audience.