http://www.bloggernews.net/19271 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:00:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/19271#comment-73115 Chase.Hamil Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:37:49 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19271#comment-73115 Presidents and presidential candidates are not the only uninformed members of our society. Ask any average American to name three members of the Supreme Court. Ask for the name of one astronaut who walked on the moon. Ask them to name one play by Shakespeare. Or, as in the case of Jay Leno's feature, "Jaywalking," he asked several high school graduates - and one college graduate - who our opponent was in the Spanish-American War. After the first "Duh, was it Germany?" I turned off the TV. Presidents and presidential candidates are not the only uninformed members of our society. Ask any average American to name three members of the Supreme Court. Ask for the name of one astronaut who walked on the moon. Ask them to name one play by Shakespeare. Or, as in the case of Jay Leno’s feature, “Jaywalking,” he asked several high school graduates - and one college graduate - who our opponent was in the Spanish-American War. After the first “Duh, was it Germany?” I turned off the TV.

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