Entertaining educational news
James Lileks discovers that Minnesota's schoolchildren are required to pledge allegiance to dirt. Yet more reason to homeschool. Children in Scotland used their powers of reason and sense of irony to turn the tables on a couple of ridiculous, presumptuous PETA activists. And Dave Barry disputes poll results that indicate Florida is only the third-stupidest state. In any meaningful poll, Florida would have to rank at the bottom - what states could be stupider than "the state that STILL does not really know who it voted for in the 2000 presidential election"? The answer may surprise you.