And on the education front . . .

. . . Woody offers yet another good reason for homeschooling.

Yesterday I tried to help a customer find test a prep book for her third grader. We had some, of course - we have them for grades K-12 - but not the specific one she was looking for, because, you know, you don't want your third grader getting insufficient preperation for those brutal tests.

Have things changed that drastically since I was a kid? In third grade, aren't kids still pre-occupied with finding out why paste tastes so good?

Makes me think we're only a few years away from instituting Japanese-style cram schools. "No summer camp for you, Billy! You've got to get drilled in subtraction! And proper nouns! And paste eating! Bwaaaaahahahahahaaaaaaa!"