Rimu Atkinson

I spent some time driving over the holidays, and came up against a surprising amount of SUV's, tearing around on dirt roads towing boats, jet-skis, etc. The below rant I ran across on the intertubes sums up by feelings perfectly

I've relied on blogs as my main news source for quite a while. I only read the newspaper for entertainment, and don't have a TV. It changes you - after a while, the vacuousness of the mainstream media is not something you can return to.

Here is what I see now, when I go to a normal news web site like stuff.co.nz (click picture for larger version)

It's pretty clear to most people that kids learn the wrong stuff at school. Tonight I was pleased to come across a succint and clear description of a couple of the gaping holes:

Here's what schools don't teach kids: