Yeah. He's a transparent little weasel, that Howard. He of course knows that things like class sizes and teacher training [you know, funding issues] have a major impact on people's evaluation of public schools. At least, he should know. It's kind of his area, public services. He seemed to think he knew a lot about stuff like that when he argued that his government needed, in the true blue spirit of Aussie fairness, to direct extra funding towards private schools. They were suffering, see. He seemed real confident about his handle on education issues back then. So I've gotta assume he still knows what's going on. And yet, despite that, he wilfully focusses the scrutiny on less influential stuff that makes people go crazy and stupid like 'political correctness' and 'values'. He's such a goddamn hack, so how does he get away with it? It's not subtle or anything. It's like that dumbass stuff about 'black armband history' [you know, that 'type' of history that actually explores what has happened in Australia since settlement] being 'too negative' and un-Australian, because, you know, real Australians should be content with lies and denialism. What a freak! And I read that Donelly thing, Guy. Geez, what a twerp. He says that "unions promote an ideologically driven, dumbed-down view of education", and then he's advocating getting rid of the 'negative' 'postmodern' ways of reading texts in favour of more 'positive' and 'moral' readings. He would be such a bad debater, his arguments aren't worth shit. My favourite, though, is when he proves how "captured by the Left" the Education Union is by 'revealing' that "the Eduction Union is a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions". Oh. My. God. You mean, they actually have the audacity to be a Union that is also a member of the national union body! What cheek! Anyway, I just don't understand what the hell they think they're doing. They obviously went to public schools. Where else did they ever learn to be so negative and divisive?

Anyway, to lighten the mood [world's going to hell, we're in another stupid invective cycle, drowning in arseholes, etc] I have decided to share a Quote of the Day that made me laugh heartily. It's from the Advanced Hair ad, which has been recently revamped. Here's what Greg Matthews says about the way the treatment has changed his life; "One thing I noticed was that a lot of young girls started talking to me again". GOLD.