April 18, 2004
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* In a December profile, the Washington Post examined the breezy American history curriculum being sold to schools by Presidential brother Neil Bush (more in the news lately for his messy divorce).
The course's premise is that future "hunter-gatherers" (i.e., rambunctious boys) don't have the patience to read and should be taught by music, graphics, and other techniques. For instance, the Constitutional Convention of 1787 is taught in a rap song, "It was 55 delegates from 12 states / Took one hot Philadelphia summer to create / A perfect document for their imperfect times / Franklin, Madison, Washington a lot of the cats / Who used to be in the Continental Congress way back."
-News of the Weird
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what's so weird is that this is all true. Neil is out there on the heels of skating from one more Bush-family securities/banking fraud charge.
"I'm just a bill/And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill..."
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