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High Standards A Washingtonpost.com article about standardized testing in Maryland schools contained this gem: Despite the slight gains, a...

Viewer Mail Happy Thanksgiving. I don't get as many e-mails about the weblog as I had expected, but I got a couple earlier this week. A ...

The Aztek I was in Minnesota earlier this week. My rental car was a Pontiac Sunfire -- an adequate compact car. A co-worker of mine, h...

Remove Fork, Insert Foot in Mouth In an earlier weblog entry , I predicted a Gore victory in this month's elections and refered to a Wil...

Search Engine Madness Inspired by West Coast Girl , I present my "Search Engine Outtakes". (All searches on Google unless o...

I got my hair cut today. While I was trying to decipher what the guy cutting my hair was saying about the Redskins (he mumbles, and spea...

I Feel Your Pain, Al... "And the awful truth is that America doesn't like knowledgeable, well-educated white guys who preen v...

Why Me? On my recent flight to Chicago, the woman in the adjacent seat woke me up to ask me to hand her my copy of the in-flight magazin...

I used to be scared of 8th grade girls, too.. This made me laugh. "Speaking inside a middle-school gymnasium in the Chicago su...

HmMm... "After many false starts and delays for reasons beyond telling, there is now a Mensa SIG * for prisoners: Mprisoned....

Why Service Stinks ''We're just putting more of our energies into rewarding our best customers.'' --American Air...

Name changed to protect the clueless From: Xxxxxxxx @aol.com Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:34:20 EDT Subject: JUST CHECKING IN To: xxxxxxxx@yaho...

Today I woke up at around 8:30. Last Sunday, it was a different story. Up at 5:30, out of the house by 7. I was off to the Rock 'n Ra...

England Pictures I've uploaded pictures from my recent England trip here .

George Hits Japan And now for the final entry in the George Trilogy, as our hero arrives in Tokyo... I can't remember the last time I wa...

George and the Singapore Sling The second of three installments from my friend George... A great thing happened the same day I se...

George in Kuala Lumpur Well, I've run out of England stories. For your vicarious traveling pleasure, however, George has agreed to ...

Who Won the Debate? I watched the presidential debate last night. I admit, I thought Gore won, and Bush looked out of his depth. But t...

The Two Noble Kinsmen I wondered if I could walk to the hotel and back to the Globe in time for that evening's performance of The Tw...

Tate Modern The Tate Modern was my next stop. Truthfully, I could have spent the whole weekend there...4 1/2 hours seemed very rus...