This morning on Fox and Friends there was a report about the Army relaxing its weight standards to allow fat boys to enlist. They mentioned that these fatties had to be able to do 13 pushups in a minute. This gave the reporters the opportunity to chuckle and make fun of the Army's desperate attempt to boost enlistments. This caused my blood pressure to sail and my veins to pop out and my horns to start growing...well, it bothered me. It shouldn't; I have 26 years of experience with the media r...

You may have seen the ad on TV where the point is being made that our schools are failing worldwide. To illustrate the point, the flags of the "superior" nations are being strung up the flagpole, in order, on the same line, like a semiphore signal. The US flag is added to the line of flags in its depressingly low status in the world of acacemics. It shows us where we stand. I sincerely hope the ad was filmed in Canada or some other foreign country...because in the US of A, the flag of the Un...