Extra Credit Reading: Friday, December 08, 2006

The Washington Post reports that in Baghdad, thousands of children are unable to attend classes as the education system is being destroyed by rising levels of violence.

History Friday: I think that there is a little Egyptologist in all of us. Having said that, I was excited to learn that they've found the 4000 year old mummy of a doctor who was buried along with his surgical implements.

Iowa teacher Jamie Lynn Morris, age 26, receives the Wanker of the Day Award. Ms. Morris was suspended from the job for allegedly playing Whack-A-Student in her third-grade classroom.

Today's Non-Sequitur: See the consternation that is caused in Babylon-on-the-Potomac when 3 women wear the same $8,500 Oscar de la Renta party dress to a White House "holiday" reception. (Hasn't anyone told those people that there's a War on?)
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