Another reason why jabber is brilliant

[ericcoleman]

A reply in dot_cattiness

As for Kansas and the rest of them, I DEMAND that science be equally represented during Sunday Sermons! "And then the Lord said 'Let Force be equal to Mass multipled by the rate of Acceleration.', and so it was, and the Lord saw that it was good."

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[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

John Scalzi's take on it was pretty good too:

"Lord knows it's wrong of me, but I'm always just a little bit delighted when entire states sabotage the educations of their children for no particularly good reason. As you know I have a child of my own, and by the time she gets to college age competition for the good schools will be fierce. Anything that knocks out hundreds of thousands of potential competitors in one fell swoop is a cause for celebration."

[jabber.livejournal.com]

I'd heard an equally cogent bit on NPR some time ago.

"It used to be that we said 'Finish your dinner kids, there's kids starving in China.' Now we need to start saying 'Finish your homework kids, there are kids in China starving for your jobs.'"