Link of the Week: Budget Mix-Up

         Here's to The Onion for bringing some much needed levity to the school reform debate.  Their recent article Budget Mix-Up Provides Nation's Schools with Enough Money to Properly Educate Students is a hilarious account of a congressional blunder resulting in the accidental misappropriation of $80 billion earmarked for national defense.  A true disaster!  The Onion quotes House Speaker John Boehner: "Once these kids learn to read and think critically, you can never undo that," Boehner said . . . "It could take a whole generation to cancel out the effects of this. . . What will our nation do if the next generation knows that all we care about is our own selfish interests and pandering to the wealthy elite? Is that the future you want? Not me."  Sounds like a great future to me.